Special Pachadi

Special Pachadi (My special Pachadi with Eggplant and Bitter Gourd)

My special Pachadi, is a recipe adapted from my mother’s recipes. She is always making delicious Yoghurt based dishes like this. Eggplant and Bitter gourd are two vegetables, that get hated on a LOT! Try this recipe, where eggplant and bitter gourd is fried and then added to a cooling yoghurt curry. It’s fantastic on your tastebuds. Will have even the haters, singing you praise. There is one ingredient and method, that I follow to make the Pachadi, more delicious. Check out the recipe to find out.

The video for this recipe is available on both my English and Malayalam channels.

Pachadi is a cooling preparation of vegetables in yoghurt sauce. Sometimes finely ground coconut is also incorporated. You will need a good quantity of thick yoghurt and using two types of yoghurt gives the best results. I use thick set / greek style yoghurt with a little Indian Sour Thick set yoghurt.

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Recipe Name: Special Pachadi (My special Pachadi with Eggplant and Bitter Gourd)

Recipe Type: Vegetarian recipes

Author: Shana c/o Recipes ‘R’ Simple

Prep time: 10 min

Cook time: 10 min

Total time: 20 min

Yield: ( 6 SERVINGS)

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How to make Special Pachadi – Recipe at a glance:

Marinate.
Fry.
Prepare ground coconut paste.
Prepare yoghurt sauce.
Add fried ingredients into the sauce. Rest and serve.

Ingredients:

5 smaller sized bitter gourds or equal amount of other sizes bitter gourd. Should have a plateful of bitter gourd slices.
5-6 smaller sized purple coloured eggplants
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/4 tsp salt
Oil for deep frying in a small wok
3 large cloves of Garlic
1/2 cup grated coconut, firmly packed.
Natural Thick set / Greek-style Yoghurt – 1 cup plus 2 -5 heaped Tbsp
Natural Thick Set Sour yoghurt (Homestyle, Indian yoghurt is ideal) – 1/4 cup (may use sour cream instead)
More yoghurt as needed.

Tempering:

1 Tbsp sunflower oil
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
3-4 dried red chillies, broken
2 sprigs fresh curry leaves.

Two types of yoghurt are used for this recipe to get the yummiest taste. They are thick-set yoghurt / greek style yoghurt and Thick Set Indian Yoghurt which is sourer. You can use sour cream if you don’t have the sour type.

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Key Ingredients: Yoghurt, Eggplant, Bitter gourd, Coconut, Garlic, Oil, Mustard Seeds, Curry Leaves, Dried chilli, Salt.

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