Search This Blog

Anai Pachadi


 
Ingredients
Quantity

Butter nut squash
1 small
Green chillies
3
Coconut
3 tbsp
Tamarind paste
1 tsp
Mustard seeds
½ tsp
Jaggery (dark brown sugar)

Turmeric
to taste 
Salt
to taste 

Seasoning:


Mustard seeds

Fenugreek

Red chilli powder

Curry leaves

oil


Cut squash into inch square and 1/4 inch thick slices. Wash and in about a cup and a half of water, add tamarind paste and sliced squash.

Add turmeric, salt and cook on low heat until done.

Grind coconut, green chillies, 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds and stir into cooked squash. Can wash out blender and add this water too.

Let mustard seeds splutter in oil, add fenugreek, red chillie powder, curry leaves and in a couple of minutes pour onto pachadi.

Variations:

Instead of tamarind paste can use yogurt at the end. Can use cut okra or, okra and eggplant pieces, instead of squash.