Ingredients

• 2 inches - ginger
• 1 cup - freshly grated coconut
• 1 tbsp - oil | curd (plain yogurt) - 1 cup
• 1 tsp - cumin seeds
• 1 pinch - asafoetida
• 4 - red chillies
• salt
• coriander (cilantro) leaves

How to Make Shunthi (ginger) tambuli

• Heat 1/2 tbsp oil in a pan. Cut ginger into small pieces and fry till golden brown. Remove from flame.
• Allow to cool and grind with coconut to a fine paste adding a little water.
• Now, heat the remaining oil, add cumin seeds and asafoetida, and allow to sputter. | |Add red chillies and fry till they darken a little.
• Add this to the ginger-coconut paste.
• Add salt and curd and mix well.
• The amount of curd added can be adjusted to taste.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.