Recipe: Delicious Teppal Amat (Szechuan Pepper curry)

Teppal Amat (Szechuan Pepper curry).

You can have Teppal Amat (Szechuan Pepper curry) using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Teppal Amat (Szechuan Pepper curry)

1. You need 1 cup of Coconut.
2. Prepare 3 to 5 of Teppal.
3. Prepare 7 to 8 of chillies Dry red.
4. Prepare 2 of Kokum pieces.
5. It's to taste of Salt.
6. You need 1 of Potato medium sized.
7. It's 1 tsp of Turmeric.
8. You need of Water.

Teppal Amat (Szechuan Pepper curry) instructions

1. Take a Teppal (3) in mortal and pestle and crush it roughly and add 1 tbsp of  water to it.
2. Take a mixture jar and add coconut, dry red chillies, turmeric and some water.  When half ground add the above teppal water (crush it with fingers before u add) to the jar and  ground it to a smooth paste. Keep in mind not to add more teppal as this will make the gravy bitter..
3. Par boil the potatoes and cut them in to cubes (not too small)..
4. Take a vessel add the mixture,  teppal (2 whole), kokum pieces and good quantity of water in order to form a gravy like consistency or consistency as you wish.  When the mixture comes to a boil add the potatoes and salt to taste..
5. Boil it for couple of minutes. Our gravy is ready to be served with rice..
6. You can even do one variation to this recipe if you are a non-vegetarian. Instead of potato you can add fish pieces. Just keep in mind that you add fish pieces when the mixture is half boiled or else fish will be over cooked and mushy. Cook the gravy till the added fish pieces are cooked..