Topic started by Susmitha (@ 203.199.64.131) on Tue Jan 16 06:28:40 .
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This is supposed to be had with 'Venpongal'.
Can anybody give me the authentic recipe for 'Gotsu'?

I have been searching for this for a while...

Responses:

• From: Ramki (@ ws35.honovi.com) on: Tue Jan 16 07:56:51 EST 2001
  
  Sushmitha this is how i do gothsu:
  
  Ingredients:
  Eggplant (the big one)
  green chillies:2(or as desired)
  tomato:1
  onion:1
  tamarind(size of a small ball). Squeeze it in 2 cups of water
  oil,mustard seeds,turmeric powder,salt
  
  Evenly Oil the eggplant and roast it on a plain stove(NOT on any vessel). Turn the eggplant for every couple of minutes. When the eggplant is evenly roasted,remove it from the stove and allow it to cool.
  Meanwhile chop the onions,tomato and chillies to small pieces.
  peel the skin from the cooled eggplant and dispose it. Mash the inside pulp with a wooden spoon or karandi
  
  Heat the kadai. Add about 2 spoons of oil and season it with mustard seeds,perungaiyam.
  Add the chopped onion and fry until it turns soft.
  Add the green chillies and tomato and fry for a while. Now add the mashed eggplant,salt and turmeric powder. Fry for a while.
  Now add the tamarind water in instalments.
  When it comes to a semi liquid consistency,switch off the stove. If desired coriander leaves can be added
  
  Alternatively you can roast the eggplant in microwave. But you should be very careful bcoz on overheating the eggplant might burst. You will end up cleaning your microwave instead of tasting tasty ghotsu :)
  
  
  
• From: Sundar (@ ip9.79.blca.blazenet.net) on: Tue Jan 16 08:45:43 EST 2001
  
  Microwave hint: If you must "nuke" the eggplant, poke many holes in it with a fork first. This will allow a lot of steam to escape as it cooks, and will reduce the splatter mode effects *griN!*
  
  
• From: pOjana priyan (@ sdn-ar-001nmalbup301.dialsprint.net) on: Tue Jan 16 20:41:42 EST 2001
  
  
  
  Chidambaram SambA kothsU
  
  In a pan add lit bit of oil & fry some mustard seeds.
  Add to this chopped green chile,onions and egg plant
  -in small 1/2" cubes.
  
  But before "have this ready"
  
  Fry some coriander (kothamalli) seeds along with red chile
  and kadalai paruppu (channa dAl?).Grind them into a
  powder and have it ready.
  
  Add water to the eggplant,green chile and onions.
  Sprinkle some salt.
  
  Once the eggplant reaches the right 'padham" add
  the powder and some tamarind paste.
  
  Cook till its done!! enjoy the real "Chidambaram
  sambA kothsu" along with your dOsai or idli!
  
  
  
  
  
• From: Lakshmanan (@ ) on: Tue Sep 24 02:39:06
  
  What about onion gotsu? Can anyone help?
  
  
• From: saraswathi (@ host81-137-247-51.in-addr.btopenworld.com) on: Wed Nov 3 09:20:57
  
  hi, forgothsu u should not show brinjals in fire and mash, That we do only for thogayal. As Pojana priyan has said, it is to be made. You should add a teaspoon of methi powder and little jaggery at the end. Infact to get a very good flavour, we can roast finely cut sambar onions seperately in a pan and add at then end and garnish with coriander!
  
  

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