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Monday, January 30, 2012

Sorakaya - Tomato Pachadi ~ Bottle Gourd - Tomato chutney


It has been a while since I posted chutney recipes and so here we go with an interesting flavored chutney made with bottle gourd and tomato. Serve this with hot steamed rice and ghee. :)

Ingredients:
1 Tbsp oil
1 tsp cumin seeds, garlic,
4 green chillies
a pinch of asafoetida
1 cup grated bottle gourd
A pinch of turmeric
1 tomato, chopped
Salt to taste
a small marble sized tamarind
For tadka - 2 tsp oil, 1/2 tsp each - mustard seeds & urad dal (split, skinned blackgram), curry leaves

Method:
* Heat 1 Tbsp oil and add cumin seeds. When they start to brown, add chillies and saute them for few seconds. Then add bottle gourd, asafoetida and turmeric. Mix and cook until the raw smell of the gourd disappears. Then add tomato, tamarind and salt. Cook covered until tomato turns mushy. Turn off the stove and let cool.
* Grind the mixture to a coarse paste.
* Heat oil in a small pan and add the tadka ingredients. When uraddal starts to turn reddish, remove and add it to the ground chutney.

This goes to Priya's Veggie / Fruit a month event - guest hosted by Raji with the theme Bottle gourd this month.

Comments

11 comments:

Rasi said...

This is a nice chutney.. will try this :)

Sravs said...

I also make same pachadi with bottle gourd & tomato !! looks delicious !!

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Harini said...

Neeru kayalatho pacchadi chala baguntundhi. My mom makes this very often. Glad you reminded me of yet another pacchadi :)

Ms.Chitchat said...

Tasty chutney,loved ur version.

Shabitha Karthikeyan said...

Nice chutney !! never tried to make cutney with bottle gourd..

Raji said...

This is really unique recipe...and its long since I made any pachadi...its really tempting me to make soon.

Thanks for sending to my event, would appreciate if you can mail me the details as I am preparing round up.

Deeps @ Naughty Curry said...

healthy, wholesome & nutritious

Alpana said...

This combo is very new for me......awesome.....

Anonymous said...

A good idea. Most of the people do not add Sorakaya except in dals, kootu, or Sambhar.

The tangy tomato, hot chillies ,and the sweet sorakaya , all make this a wonderful combo, for irce or for chapati.
one can add more chillies or less, as per taste. A convenient one, for all palettes.

Thanks.

Prema said...

Delicious chutney,yummy with dosai...

Unknown said...

Yummy yummy Pachadi....no one can keep me away from pachadis!:))