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
Recipe Category: Accompaniment | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
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
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.
Looks yumm I will try soon
ReplyDeleteThanks. Indeed it's delicious. If you have tried, let me know how you like it.
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