[net.veg] South Indian Recipe

ins_aria@jhunix.UUCP (Ravikumar Is Abraham) (07/23/86)

> I would very much like to see some of those Indian vegetarian recipes
>                           ---- Susanne E Trowbridge
>                                ins_aset@jhunix

        .....    Try this   .....

  Pachchadi - South Indian Salad

Peel and remove the seeds from a cucumber; cut into small pieces - 
about 1/4" cubes.
Add salt ( and a chopped green chili, if you can stand it ) to about 
1/2 a cup of plain yogurt and mix until smooth.
Add the chopped cucumber and mix well. Leave it in the 'fridge for about
half an hour before serving.
That's it !

You may go a step further by seasoning it the south Indian way.
Heat a teaspoon or two of cooking oil and add 1/2 t of mustard seeds.
(I heat the oil in a ladle over a gas flame & cover it with a spatula
after I add the mustard seeds so that the seeds don't end up all over
my kitchen.) Let the seeds crackle, add this to the pachchadi and mix well.

This recipe may be extended to other vegetables such as carrots & tomatoes.
It is recommended that you cook the pieces of carrot until tender-crisp
before adding the yogurt.

                                --   Vasantha Kandasamy

tandy@ingres.Berkeley.EDU.ARPA (Tandy Warnow) (07/23/86)

Vasantha Kanddasamy has sent in a recipe for pachadi made with
cucumbers, and has also suggested that you can make a nice
carrot pachadi in the same way.  I'd like to add that you
can make a delicious pachadi with okra!  

Try to use fresh okra, it's much tastier!  Cut the okra into fine 
slices, and fry with some oil until cooked and not at all slimy.  Then
add to yogurt with chopped green chili, and some fresh
coriander.  (The fresh coriander should be washed and chopped
before adding).  Salt to taste, and season with burst mustard
seeds.

I have found that mustard seeds are easy to burst if you heat the
oil almost until it is smoking before adding the mustard seeds.
You should only use black mustard seeds, by the way: yellow ones
are entirely inapppropriate.

              Tandy

>                                --   Vasantha Kandasamy