Tomato Pachadi Recipe with step by step pictures. Delicious pachadi made with tomatoes, coconut, yogurt and spices.
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 or hot rice and any spicy gravy. With no more introduction, off you go to the step by step recipe.
Ingredients for Tomato Pachadi
- 1 Onion sliced thinly
- 5 Tomato chopped finely
- 1 cup Greek Yogurt / Thick unsour Curd
- to taste Salt
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1 tbsp Oil
For Grinding:
- ½ cup Fresh Coconut
- 1 Green Chilli
For Tempering / Seasoning:
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds / Kaduku
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds / Jeera
- 1 Dry Red Chilli
- 1 sprig Curry leaves
How to Make Tomato Pachadi
- 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 until 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. Heat oil and crackling mustard, cumin, red chilli and curry leaves.
- Pour this over the pachadi and mix well.
- Serve hot with rice or roti.
📖 Recipe
Tomato Pachadi Recipe | Thakkali Pachadi
Ingredients
- 1 Onion sliced thinly
- 5 Tomato chopped finely
- 1 cup Greek Yogurt / Thick unsour Curd
- to taste Salt
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1 tbsp Oil
- For Grinding:
- ½ cup Fresh Coconut
- 1 Green Chilli
- For Tempering / Seasoning:
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds / Kaduku
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds / Jeera
- 1 Dry Red Chilli
- 1 sprig Curry leaves
Instructions
- 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 until 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. Heat 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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Tomato pachadi recipe step by step
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Take all your ingredients |
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Take coconut and green chilli |
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add it to the blender |
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and make into a fine paste |
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Prepare onions and tomatoes |
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heat oil |
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add in onions |
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and your tomatoes |
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season with salt |
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and some sugar |
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cover and cook |
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until tomatoes turn mushy |
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add in the coconut paste |
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and mix well |
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Let it cook for few minutes |
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until cooked |
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Allow to cool slightly |
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add in curd |
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and mix well |
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Take all your ingredients for seasoning |
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heat oil |
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add in all seasoning ingredients |
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pour this over the pachadi |
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wow..I love this part |
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mix well |
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Serve with any curry |
Julie
HI! Thanks for stopping by my blog! You have a great blog with wonderful recipes!!!
Dzoli
Such a great 'bed' for tomatoes:)
Premalatha Aravindhan
wow delicious pachadi,amma makes this...love this tempting pachadi.
Rhandi
You have some fantastic recipes and flavor profiles! I am Glad I stumbled upon your blog. I will definitely be checking in and may have to re-create some of your recipes for my blog.
Rekha shoban
nice pachadi!!will try it soon!!
Archana
Looks delicious. Hosting an event which I am calling Back to our Roots
Also hosting for Nov’11 Veggie Food for the Month_Raw Banana.
Hamaree Rasoi
Definitely a great looking pachadi dear. Very nicely prepared recipe.
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
cookingvarieties
hi arthi, how are you doing..wow the color of this dish looks sooooo appetizing, i feel hungry now.
martinealison
un plat qui éveille les papilles...
gros bisous
Gayathri NG
Thanks for stopping my space n leaving wonderful comment.
Tangy n sweet pachadi looks nice n delicious too....nice knowing u too....
Sharmilee! :)
Flavourful and interesting pachadi
Uma
Looks so tempting and delicious.
Uma@Trendy Relish
Kavi...
Great healthy pachadi! Please link to to my HCC event if possible. ( event: Healthy Lunch Challenge) Thanks!
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Tina
Delicious pachadi....yummy.
Jane Hamilton
I love pacchadis! And tomatoes are my most favorite fruit/veggies in the whole world!! So, this has got to be a winner at home... 😀 Thanks for this wonderful recipe Aarthi. This is great for busy morning when we need to make something in a real hurry....definitely trying this one soon...
Aruna Manikandan
healthy delicious pachadi 🙂
RAKS KITCHEN
My mom makes this as well,love it a lot!
Anusha Praveen
Hey Lovely pachadi First time in your space and loved the collection of dishes. Excellent pachadi :)Do visit my space sometime
Iva
This is fantastic! I will try it for sure!
teresa, www.foodonfifth.com
This looks divine...great combo of flavors.
Kavi...
thanks for linking it. But you also have to specify the event you are sending it to. Kindly edit the post to have both my announcement link & Smita's link. You can find all the details on my announcement page.
Also, please date your post between Nov 1-30th.
Sorry for the trouble!
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Kavi | Edible Entertainment
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Chitra
yummy pachadi...
anthony stemke
This is a beautiful pachadi, Thanks for sharing.
Kadhyaa
thats such simple and yummy dish..
jeyashrisuresh
we too make a simillar one but without onions. nicely done
Kavi
Thanks so much for linking your entry/ies to my HCC event & making it a huge success! Find your entry in the EVENT ROUNDUP-I .
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