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This Kothamalli Coffee or Sukku Coffee or Sukku Malli Coffee is my all time favorite. My regular routine day starts with this. I have this powder ready. Generally I make it once a month and store it. It gives you very good relief when you cold, flu, head ache. Coriander is called Kothamalli and Dry ginger is called Sukku in tamil. So this coffee we call it as Kothamalli coffee or Sukku malli coffee.  All the ingredients in this has their own medicinal benefits. Expecialy Plam Jaggery is way better than our white sugar on the health benefits side.   Coffee Powder Preparation Ingredients 100g coriander seeds Dry ginger -  2 inch. Black pepper - 1 tbs Preparation  In a dry pan on a low flame, dry roast coriander seeds and pepper until the aroma start coming nicely and the seeds will slowly turn into brown color.  Keep stirring the seeds, other wise one side will get burnt easily and the aroma won't be so great. Let it cool. In a mixer grind roasted coriander an

Tomato Pickle Tomato dishes is my all time favorite. My mom makes this amazing tomato pickle. This is her recipe. Last time when I'm in native we harvested lots of native variety tomato from our farm. I can't express the amazing taste of it straight from farm.  After seeing lot of fresh tomatoes, I immediately made plans to make pickle by self with mom overseeing it. It goes well with hot rice, idly, dosa, upma, chappati, curd rice etc. Our family eat this thokku with almost everything in all my meals   Ingredients Tomato - 3kg Gingly oil - 0.5 ltr Fresh curry leaves - one handful  Tamarind - 1 lemon size Fenugreek - 3 table spoon Chilli powder - as per taste. I used 6 table spoon. Turmeric powder - 1tea spoon Salt as per taste Mustard - 3 table spoon Garlic - 3 whole pods (Optional) Ginger - small finger length (Optional)   Preparation Wash tomatoes in running water and let it dry completely. I spread tomatoes on a cotton cloth a