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Kudampuli (Dried malabar tamarind) is used to add sourness to dishes /curries in Kerala. This is also Kerala’s secret spice in seafood. Kodampuli is a medium sized, evergreen tree and the flowers are sessile and axillary. Its leaves are dark green, elliptic, shining to obviate. It bears sweet sour mixed fruit. The fruit may resemble a yellow pumpkin. When the fruit ripe, it’s plucked from the vine, deseeded and left to dry in the sun till it turns leathery.
It is often used in the preparation of non-vegetarian gravies and curries like fish curry, chicken curry etc.