Thakali Pachadi / Tomato Pachadi / Tomatoes Cooked in a Coconut Yogurt Sauce

I have lots of pachadi recipes in my blog..You can see all those recipes in my side bar..This is another one to the lot..

A sweet tangy dish which goes perfect with roti ot hot rice and any spicy gravy..With no more introduction, off you go to the step by step recipe..

Ingrediants:

Onion-1 sliced thinly

Tomato-5 chopped finely

Greek Yogurt / Thick unsour Curd-1 cup

Salt to taste

Sugar-1 tsp

Oil-1 tblspn

For Grinding:

Coconut- ½  cup

Green Chilli-1

For Tempering / Seasoning:

Oil-1 tblspn

Mustard seeds / Kaduku-1 tsp

Cumin seeds / Jeerakam-1 tsp

Dry Red Chilli-1

Curry leaves – 1 spring

Method:

Grind Coconut and green chilli to a fine paste by adding some water.

Heat oil in a kadai and add in onions, fry this for 1 min..

Now add in tomatoes and mix well..Cook this for 5 mins covered untill the tomatoes turn mushy.

Season with salt and sugar and mix well..

Pour in the coconut paste and mix well..Cook this for 3 mins..

Switch off the flame and let this cool a bit..Add curd and mix well..

Now make seasoning by heating oil and crackling mustard, cumin, red chilli and curry leaves..

Pour this over the pachadi and mix well..

Serve hot with rice or roti..

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Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

Take coconut and green chilli

add it to the blender

and make into a fine paste

Prepare onions and tomatoes

heat oil

add in onions

and your tomatoes

season with salt

and some sugar

cover and cook

untill tomatoes turn mushy

add in the coconut paste

and mix well

Let it cook for few minutes

untill cooked

Allow to cool slightly

add in curd

and mix well

Take all your ingrediants for seasoning

heat oil

add in all seasoning ingrediants

pour this over the pachadi

wow..I love this part

mix well

Serve with any curry