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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

NELLIKAI PACHADI

As already said, nellikai pachadi or nellikai thogayal is done on Dwadashi days.

INGREDIENTS:


Big nellikai(Amla) - 2
Salt - as per taste
Green chillies - 2
Curd - 1 cup
Scraped coconut - 2 teaspoons
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp.
Urad dhal - 1/2 tsp.

METHOD:

Steam cook nellikai and discard the seeds. Mash the cooked nellikai using your hand. In a mixie, grind the green chillies, salt and scraped coconut, add mashed nellikai and give it a whip.

Transfer it to a bowl and add the curd . Mix well.

Season it with mustard seeds and urad dhal.

6 comments :

  1. Awesome pachchidi. Anything with nellikkai is delicious. I love moar nellikkai oorugai too, though it doesn't keep long like the neer nellikkai.

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  2. ohhhh delicious and healthy pachadi. Never tried this one...

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  3. Delicious Pachadi....mouth watering

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  4. hi. I tried Iyengar samyal all are tasty and good thanks Padmavathy

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  5. Radhika
    Hi. Tried all the dwadeshi recipes and it came out well. Thanks a lot

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