Cucumber Pachadi - 2

Ingredients:

• 2 Cucumber wash, peel and finely chop
• 2 cups curd Coriander leaves - washed and finely chop
• 2 -3 Green chillies 1-2 finely chop
• 1 tea spoon Coconut grated 1 tea.spoon
• 1 inch ginger piece
• Salt
• 1/2 sp Mustard
• One pinch Asafetida powder
• 1 sp Oil 1/2

Method:

• Grind green chillies, salt, coconut,ginger and little cilantro in little curd.
• Dont add water at all.
• Mix the above with cucumber, and the remaining curd.
• Fry mustard and asafetida in little oil and add it to above.
• Your cucumber pachadi is ready to serve.

New Year Pachadi. (Vepampoo pachadi)

Ingredients:

• 1 Raw mango (best is Bengloora)
• 1 sp fresh neem flower
• 2 - 4green chilli
• 1/2 cup grated jaggery
• 1 sp oil
• 1/2 sp mustard seeds
• salt

Method:

• wash,peel and cut mango.
• cook it well.
• (if you want you can keep mango pieces and green chilly along with rice while cooking rice in the cooker.)
• In a pan pour oil and make seasoning with mustard seeds.
• Now put fresh neem flowers and fry well.
• Add chopped green chillies and cooked mango.
• Let it cook for a min.
• Now add grated jaggery.
• Mix well.
• Bring it to a boil.
• Remove from the fire and serve.

Inji (Ginger) Pachadi

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup Peeled and Chopped Ginger
• 6 Red Chilies
• 1/2 cup Grated Coconut
• Salt to taste
• 1 Tea sp oil
• 1 Tea sp Mustard Seeds
• 1 Tea sp Urad Dhal
• Asafetida
• Curry leaves

Method:

• In a pan pour ½ sp oil and fry red chilly and ginger.
• Grind the fried ginger, coconut and dry roasted red chilies to a paste.
• Add the paste to a bowl.
• Add salt to taste.
• Add curd to paste and mix well.
• To make the garnish, heat up a teaspoon of oil in a pan.
• Make seasoning with mustard seeds and curry leaves.
• Add asafetida also in that.
• Pour this on the pachadi.

Mixed fruit raitha

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Curd
• 3 Bananas (half riped - chop well)
• 1cup Pineapple Pieces
• 2 cups finely chopped Apples
• 1 cup chopped Ripe Mango
• 1 cup Pomegranate seeds
• Chopped coriander leaves
• Sugar to taste
• Salt to taste
• White pepper powder to taste

Method:

• Stir the curd with hand mixer properly like thick butter milk and mix salt, sugar, in that.
• Put all fruits in the curd.
• Garnish the fruit raita with chopped coriander and pomegranate.
• Very healthy raitha.
• Children will like this very much.
• Good way to eat more fruits.

Carrot and Beetroot pachadi

Ingredients:

• Carrot – grated 1 cup
• beetroot -grated 1 cup
• green chilly 3
• mustard seed 1/2 tsp
• curry leaves some
• oil 1 tsp
• Curd 2 cup

Method:

• In a pan make seasoning with mustard seeds.
• Now add beet root and carrots.
• Fry well and cook for a while; add into curd.
• Add salt and mix well.
• And also add curry leaves.
• Your pachadi is ready to serve.

Beet root pachadi.

Ingredients:

• Beetroot grated -1 small sized
• Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds -1/4 tsp
• Sugar - 1/2 tsp
• Raisins - 5 - 10
• Curd - 1 cup
• Salt - to taste
• Oil- as needed
• For Grinding:-
• Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
• Jeera seeds - 1/4 tsp
• Small onions – 4
• Grind all these together into a smooth paste.
• For seasoning:-
• Mustard seeds -1 tsp
• Red chilies - 3
• Sliced small onions – 1 tab sp
• Curry leaves - a few

Method:

• Cook beetroot with raisins, salt and add very little water ,until it is soft. ( you can keep this in cooker while cooking rice)
• Now add the ground mixture and simmer for few minutes.
• Switch off the heat and add lightly mashed curd, salt and sugar.
• Heat oil in another pan and pop the mustard seeds.
• Add in red chilies, curry leaves and shallots and fry them until brown.
• Add this seasoning to the pachadi.
• This can be served with any type of rice.

Mixed vegetable pachadi

Ingredients:

• 1 cup mixed veg. like cucumber,carrot, potato, peas etc.,
• 1/4 sp turmeric powder
• 1/2 sp cumin seeds
• 3 tabs. coconut fresh
• 2 - 4 green chilly
• 1 cup curd
• 1 sp mustard seeds
• curry leaves
• salt
• 2 sp oil

Method:

• Cook the vegetable in water by adding turmeric powder and salt.
• Grind together the grated coconut, green chillies and cumin seeds and add this mixture to the cooked vegetable and cook again.
• Heat a pan.
• Add oil and add mustard seeds, curry leaves and pour it into the mixture.
• Allow this mixture to cool.
• Finally, add the curd into this mixture and mix well.

Sago and onion Pachadi

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup big size sago
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 2 cups Curd
• Coriander leaves
• 2 - 3 Green chillies
• 1/2 sp Mustard seeds
• 2 sp Oil 1/2

Method:

• In a pan pour oil and make seasoning with mustard seeds and green chilly.
• Now put onion pieces and fry well and keep aside.
• Bring it to room temp. and then mix with curd.
• Again add one sp oil in the pan and put sago in it.
• Let the sago fry well and it will become big in size.
• wait till that and fry continuously.
• Put the fried sago in curd onion mix and mix well.
• Let it be like that for 1/2 an hour.
• You can add water in that before serving.
• And also add chopped coriander leaves in that.
• This is very well go with any pulav.

Sago Raitha

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup big size sago
• 2 cups Curd
• Coriander leaves
• 2 - 3 Green chillies
• 1/2 sp Mustard seeds
• 2 sp Oil 1/2

Method:

• In a pan pour oil and make seasoning with mustard seeds and green chilly.
• Now add sago and fry well.
• Let the sago fry well and it will become big in size.
• wait till that and fry continuously.
• In the mean time pour curd in a vessel and add salt in that.
• Put the fried sago in it and mix well.
• Let it be like that for 1/2 an hour.
• You can add water in that before serving.
• And also add chopped coriander leaves in that.
• This is very well go with any pulav.

Notes:

• This will be a good side dish for pulav varities.

Carrot and onion pachadi

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups curd
• 1 cup grated carrots
• 1 ts oil
• 1 sp mustard seeds
• Few fresh curry leaves
• 1 cup finely chopped onion
• 1 tsp ground cumin (optional)
• salt
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh coriander leaves

Method:

• In a pan make seasoning and add onion and carrots.
• Fry well and add into curd.
• Add salt and mix well.
• If you want to add cumin powder add it.
• And also add coriander leaves + curry leaves.
• Your pachadi is ready to serve.

Notes:

• You can add fresh carrots without frying.

Carrot Pachadi

Ingredients:

• 1 cup curd
• 1 cup grated carrots
• 1 ts oil
• 1 sp mustard seeds
• Few fresh curry leaves
• salt
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh coriander leaves

Method:

• In a pan make seasoning and add with curd.
• Add salt and mix well.
• Now add grated carrots and mix well.
• Add chopped coriander leaves in it.
• Your pachadi is ready to serve.

Onion and Tomato Pachadi

Ingredients:

• 2 big Onion chop it finely
• Tomato 2 - 3 big
• 2 cups Curd
• Coriander leaves a small bunch
• 2 - 3 Green chillies (optional)
• 1/2 sp Mustard seeds
• 1 sp Oil 1/2

Method:

• Chop tomatoes well.
• Mix onion, green chillies, salt, coriander leaves and curd together.
• Fry mustard in little oil and add it to above.

Mango Pachadi - Sweet

Ingredients:

• 1 Raw mango (best is Bengloora)
• 2 - 4green chilly
• 1/2 cup grated jaggery
• 1 sp oil
• 1/2 sp mustard seeds
• salt

Method:

• wash,peel and cut mango.
• cook it well.
• (if you want you can keep mango pieces and green chilly along with rice while cooking rice in the cooker.)
• In a pan pour oil and make seasoning with mustard seeds.
• Add chopped green chillies and cooked mango.
• Let it cook for a min.
• If you want, add some water.
• Now add grated jaggery.
• Mix well.
• Bring it to a boil.
• Remove from the fire and serve.

Notes:

• we usually make this pachadi on devesam day and we add neemflowers in this pachadi and we make it on the Tamil New Year day, to get 6 tastes in a pachadi.

Onion Pachadi

Ingredients:

• Onion
• Curd
• Oil
• Mustard seeds
• Green chilly
• Coriander leaves a small bunch

Method:

• For this use big onions only.
• Great or cut onion and put that in thick butter milk with salt.
• Add chopped coriander leaves.
• Mix with pachadi.
• Cut green chilies and mix with that.
• OR
• Pour ½ sp oil in a pan and put the cut onion and green chilly.
• Just fry it for 2 min. Add salt and add it in the thick butter milk.
• Add chopped coriander leaves.
• Mix with pachadi.
• Somebody will not like the raw smell of the onion.
• So this will help for them.

Tomato Pachadi - 2

Ingredients:

• Tomato 2 - 3 big
• Curd 2 cups
• Coriander leaves a small bunch.( clean, wash and chop well)
• Mustard 1/4 t.spoon
• Asafetida powder a pinch
• Green chillies chopped 2-3
• Oil 1sp
• Salt 1/2 t.spoon

Method:

• Chop tomatoes well.
• In a pan make seasoning with mustard seeds, asafetida and green chilly.
• Put it on the chopped tomato.
• Add salt and curd.
• Mix well and serve.
• Add chopped coriander leaves and serve.

Tomato Pachadi

Ingredients:

• Tomato 2 - 3 big
• Curd 2 cups
• Coriander leaves a small bunch.( clean, wash and chop well)
• Mustard 1/4 t.spoon
• Asafetida powder a pinch
• Green chillies chopped 2-3
• Oil 1sp
• Salt 1/2 t.spoon

Method:

• Put tomatoes in hot water for a while.
• Remove the skin and mash it.
• In a pan make seasoning with mustard seeds, asafetida and green chilly.
• Put it on the tomato mash.
• Add salt and curd.
• Mix well and serve.
• Add chopped coriander leaves and serve.

Bittergourd Pachadi

Ingredients:

• 4 Bitter gourd (Pavakai) 4 washed and cut into small pieces
• 6 - 8 Green chillies 8
• 1/2 sp Mustard
• 1/2 sp Urad dhal
• 1/2sp spoon Channa dhal
• 2 - 3 tab sp Jaggery
• 1/4 sp asafetida powder
• 1/2 sp Tamarind paste
• 1 sp Oil 2
• 1/2 sp Salt

Method:

• Fry mustard, asafetida powder, urad dhal, channa dhal, green chilly, and bitter gourd in oil, until the bitter gourd becomes brown.
• Add salt and tamarind paste.
• Mix well.
• Now add one cup of water and let it cook.
• Now add jaggery and cook for 5 minutes.
• Remove and serve.

Notes:

• Good for health. For Sugar Patients you can avoid jaggery and serve.

Snakegourd - Podalangai Pachadi

Ingredients:

• 1 cup chopped Snake gourd (Podalangai)
• 2 - 4 red or green chilly
• 1/4 asafetida powder
• 1 1/2 cup curd
• 1/2 sp mustard seeds
• salt
• curry leaves

Method:

• Fry mustard, asafetida, curry leaves, red chilly or green chilly and snake gourd in oil, till it turns slightly brown.
• Now add salt and fry well.Now add the curry powder and keep stirring for a few minutes.
• Add curd and mix it well.
• Now it is ready to serve.

Notes:

• You can use pumpkin or chow chow instead of podalangai.

Okra - Ladies finger Pachadi

Ingredients:

• 2 cups finely chopped Okra (vendakai)
• 2 cups curd
• 1/2 sp Mustard
• 1/4 sp asafetida powder
• 1 sp Oil 2
• 1/2 sp Salt

Method:

• Fry mustard, asafetida in oil.
• Now add okra pieces and fry till they become brown.
• Add salt and Mix well.
• Now add that in curd and mix well.
• Remove and serve.

Brinjal (Eggplant) Puli Pachadi

Ingredients:

• one big Brinjal
• 1 cup tamarind water or 1 tab tamarind paste
• 2 red chilly
• 1/4 sp asafetida powder
• 1/2 sp Mustard
• Curry leaves
• 1 sp chopped coriander leaves
• Salt
• 1 sp Oil

Method:

• Coat oil over eggplant, and grill or bake it in an oven or gas stove.
• Put it in water for a while.
• Now peel and mash eggplant and check it.
• Mash it and keep it aside.
• Fry mustard seeds, asafetida and curry leaves in oil.
• Mix this with mashed eggplant.
• Add tamarind water or tamarind paste and salt to the above, and mix everything together.
• Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
• This will go very well with Rice Rava Uppma or Bombay Rava Uppma.

Notes:

• If you use tamarind water, again keep it on the fire and bring it to a boil. then use.