Thakkali Pachadi | Tomato Pachadi | Accompaniment for rice

Thakkali Pachadi , an easy & delicious accompaniment made from Tomatoes. It's usually served as one of the accompaniments for a  South Indian meal  or as sides for  any south Indian one pot meal. 

Thakkali pachadi is the must accompaniment for kootan soru, ulunthu soru or paruppu soru in our home and it's one of my favorite pachadis.  In my school days, i love to have paruppu soru with this pachadi in my lunch boxes and many of my friends also very fond of this pachadi, so i used to pack some extra pachadi for all of them. 

Though this pachadi is usually made with nattu thakkali(Indian country tomatoes) back home in  India, I have tried this with all types of tomatoes like roma, regular or even with cherry tomatoes. It all tastes great so make it whatever you have. Just make sure that the tomatoes have enough sourness.

The tomatoes that you're using don't have enough sourness, you can add a little bit of tamarind extract. Now let's see how to make this delicious thakkali pachadi.

Thakkali Pachadi

Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 15 mins | Serves : 2 
Recipe Category: Accompaniment | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Thakkali Pachadi, Tomato Pachadi, Pachadi recipe Thakkali Pachadi , an easy & delicious accompaniment for rice with sambar or with any south indian one pot meal.

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Ingredients

Tomato - 2 (well ripen)

Pearl Onion - 4 

Turmeric powder - pinch

Red chili powder -1/2 tsp

Oil - 1 tsp

Mustard & urad dal - 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves - few

Coriander leaves -few

Salt

To grind

Grated coconut - 1 tbsp

Cumin seed - 1/4 tsp

Garlic - 1 pod(small)

Pearl onion - 1 

Procedure 

Cut the onions and tomatoes into small pieces.Heat oil in a pan ,add mustard once it splutters add urad dal.

After that add onion and saute till it  become translucent, add tomatoes  & saute it till it's mushy.

Add  turmeric,chili powder and salt.Mix it well.Grind the ingredients listed under "To grind" into fine paste and add the coconut paste into the tomatoes and mix well.

Now add 1/4 cup of water & bring it to boil & keep it in medium flame.Once the raw smell goes off , add the coriander leaves and switch off the flame.

Tasty Tomato pachadi is ready. Serve this as the  accompaniment for rice.

Related : How to make Vendakkai / Okra Pachadi

Notes:

• Adjust the water according to your preferred consistency.
• Adjust the chili powder according to the sourness of the tomato.
• If your tomatoes have more sourness, you may need more chili powder than i mentioned here.
• Don't add more coconut than i mentioned here, it will make the pachadi bland.