Pineapple Pachadi Recipe with step by step pictures. Sweet and tangy pineapple pachadi made with coconut, spices which taste delicious.
Pineapple Pachadi Recipe
Somehow I love the smell of pineapple just wafting through your house whenever you use them. The smell is so sweet and gorgeous..And you can never hide them because the aroma of this lovely fruit will show itself. I love cooking with this, especially this pachadi recipe...Whenever I think about this my mouth will start watering. This pachadi taste sweet, sour and spicy at the same time. Thats what makes this dish unique.
Ingredients for Pineapple Pachadi
- Pineapple-2 cups roughly pureed
- Turmeric powder / Manjal podi-1 tsp
- Chilli powder-1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Sugar-2 tsp
- Curd-1 cup
- For Coconut Paste:
- Coconut- ½ cup
- Cumin seeds / Jeerakam-1 tsp
- Green Chilli-1
- For Tempering / Seasoning:
- Oil-1 tblspn
- Mustard seeds / Kaduku-1 tsp
- Cumin seeds / Jeerakam-1 tsp
- Asafoetida / Hing / Kayapodi- ¼ tsp
- Curry leaves-1 spring
Recipe of Pineapple Pachadi
- Take a kadai and add in crushed pineapple and heat it up.
- Add in turmeric powder, chilli powder, salt, sugar and mix well.
- Cover and cook for 5-10 mins until the pineapple is cooked.
- Meanwhile make a smooth paste out of coconut, cumin seeds, green chilli by adding some water.
- After the pineapple is cooked add the coconut paste to this and cook for 5 mins more mins.
- Switch off the flame and add in the curd..Mix well.
- Now make tempering by heating oil and crackling some mustard seeds, cumin seeds, asafoetida and curry leaves.
- Pour this over the pachadi and mix well.
- Serve this with rice and any gravy.
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Pineapple Pachadi Recipe | Pineapple Pachadi How to Make
Ingredients
- Pineapple-2 cups roughly pureed
- Turmeric powder / Manjal podi-1 tsp
- Chilli powder-1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Sugar-2 tsp
- Curd-1 cup
- For Coconut Paste:
- Coconut- ½ cup
- Cumin seeds / Jeerakam-1 tsp
- Green Chilli-1
- For Tempering / Seasoning:
- Oil-1 tblspn
- Mustard seeds / Kaduku-1 tsp
- Cumin seeds / Jeerakam-1 tsp
- Asafoetida / Hing / Kayapodi- ¼ tsp
- Curry leaves-1 spring
Instructions
- Take a kadai and add in crushed pineapple and heat it up.
- Add in turmeric powder, chilli powder, salt, sugar and mix well.
- Cover and cook for 5-10 mins until the pineapple is cooked.
- Meanwhile make a smooth paste out of coconut, cumin seeds, green chilli by adding some water.
- After the pineapple is cooked add the coconut paste to this and cook for 5 mins more mins.
- Switch off the flame and add in the curd. Mix well.
- Now make tempering by heating oil and crackling some mustard seeds, cumin seeds, asafoetida and curry leaves.
- Pour this over the pachadi and mix well.
- Serve this with rice and any gravy.
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Take all your ingredients |
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You don't need this much curry leaves...It is just for picture...This bunch is from our curry leaf plant.. |
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Take coconut, cumin seeds and green chilli in a blender |
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add water and make into a fine paste |
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Take pineapple in a food processor or blender and |
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make into a rough puree |
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Pour this onto a kadai.. |
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add in turmeric powder |
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and chilli powder |
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season with salt and |
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sugar |
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Mix well |
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Cover and cook for 10-15 mins |
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Pineapple is beautifully cooked.. |
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now add in the coconut paste |
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mix well and cook for few more minutes |
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Switch off the flame and add in curd |
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Mix well |
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Make tempering by heating oil and crackling all ingredients.. |
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pour that over the pachadi |
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It is getting delicious. |
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mix well so that everything gets incorporated. |
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Serve.. |
Priya Sreeram
pachadi looks well done !
schmetterlingwords
Pineapple pachadi is new to me. This indeed looks very delicious!! 🙂
Food, Fun and Life in the Charente
Oh wow I want some right now............ Diane
Dzoli
What an interesting way to prepare pineaaple;)
Aarthi
Archana..I bought these from a near by super market...In tamilnadu you find this all over the place..
Aarthi
Diane//You can take it..
Yuvana's Favourites
I had never heard of this, but the preparation is simple and looks yummy. bookmarked
Teresa en "Casa Tere"
Debe estar delicioso !!! me gustan mucho tus recetas, las veo muy amenudo aunque no escriba.
Un abrazo
Gloria
<love pineapple look delicious!! gloria
Chitra
looks so yummy...it love the sweet,sour and spicy combo..
anthony stemke
This really looks good. From your photos it looks like this can be served over rice as is, ie, no need for gravy.
Thank You.
Sh Sh Sh Let the Baby Sleep
Trouble on Earth Day
Author Kathy Stemke (my spouse)
Sharmilee! :)
Yummy pachadi..looks very inviting
Rekha shoban
nice pachadi!!lovely click!
Kat
wow! this mix of sweet and spicy looks interesting!...I've never try Indian food :/ but I'm curious!
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal
wow Arthi, really impressed that you are unmarried and still do so much cooking and blogging. Hats off girl !!!
Pachhadi looks mouth watering. I love your wok (kadahi) too. What is it made of to get that earthy color?
Aarthi
kalyani that sounds like a great idea too...
Priya...Thank you so much dear...That kadai is made with mud dear...it is readily available here...It is a traditional earthernware...
sagaya preethi
Looks awsm!!! My aunt will do the same with mango... I'll do this with pineapple and I'll give her :))) thank you..