Beetroot Pachadi (Beetroots cooked in a Coconut Yogurt Sauce)

Beetroots are one of the very underestimated vegetables in our country...I hate it when it is cooked too much..I often eat it raw as a salad by adding some curd in it or make it into juice..

Beetroots are one of stable vegetable in our house..If you look at our fridge there will be beetroots lying some where around the corner either near the vegetable tray or the dairy compartment or the egg tray,even amma put it in the freezer oneday(We found it rock hard on a busy day when amma thought to make salad out of it)..

Since amma and patti has iron deficiency we used to make beetroot juice daily..But amma gets bored of it so soon and she stops it for a while... Then the beetroots which we bought lies in the corner of the fridge looking so sad and dried up..

That is one fine day when I found couple of beetroots like that,Amma told me to make some nice stuffs out of it..So I thought I can make a cooked version of my salad which is called here as pachadi..

I love this pachadi so much because of its lovely colour...When beetroot is mixed with curd and coconut,it lost its accurd red colour and turned into rich pink..

So if your favorite colour is pink just looks into it and give it a try..So here you go for the step by step recipes with pictures...

Ingrediants:

Beetroot-1 large peeled and grated

Salt to taste

Thick unsour curd-1 cup

For Grinding:

Coconut- ½ cup

Green chilli-2

Cumin seeds-1 tsp

For tempering:

Oil-1 tblspn

Mustard seeds-1 tsp

Cumin seeds-1 tsp

Curry leaves-1 spring

Method:

Grind coconut,green chilli and cumin seeds to a smooth paste by adding water..

Cook beetroot by adding some water and salt till it is cooked..It will take around 10-15 mins..

Now add in the ground masala and mix well..Cook this for 2 mins..

Switch off the flame and Add in well beaten curd and mix well.

Make tempering by heating oil and crackling mustard,cumin and curry leaves..

Pour this over the pachadi and mix well.

Serve it with rice and any gravy..

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Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

take your beetroots

peel it up

now grate it through a coarse grater

Take it in a bowl...LOOK AT THAT COLOUR

Add beetroots in a kadai with some salt

add a dash of water

cover and cook

add in coconut paste....(Coconut is grinded with green chilli and cumin seeds)

mix that well

switch off the flame and add in yogurt

make seasoning

pour it in

mix well

Serve

Totally delicious...YUMMO...