Pavakka Kichadi
- Pavakka (bitter gourd) – 1 medium size
- Green chilly – 3-4
- Grated coconut – 1/2 cup
Mustard – 1/4 tsp - Yogurt – 1/2 – 1 cup
- Mustard – 1/2 tsp
Small onion – 2-3
Whole red chilly – 2
Curryleaves - Salt
- Coconut oil
Crush 1/4 tsp mustard seeds. Grind the coconut into a smooth paste adding a little water and add the crushed mustard seeds to this.
Cut pavakka into thin slices. Heat oil in a pan and fry the pavakka pieces till it becomes golden brown color, make sure that it doesn’t get burnt. Keep the fried pavakka aside. Add curry leaves and green chilly to the same oil and fry it for 1-2 minutes & remove from fire. Combine the fried pavakka pieces, curry leaves & green chilly & add salt to it. Add coconut paste to the pavakka pieces+curryleaves+green chilly. Add yogurt to this & mix well.
Heat oil in a pan & splutter mustard seeds. Add curry leaves, whole red chilly & sliced small onion. Fry it till the onion becomes golden brown and pour this over the pavakka mix.
Recipe source: Vanitha magazine
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I was looking for vellarikya pachadi recipe when I came across this.
kichadi huh….tho the recipe sounds same as pachadi…I guess in diff parts of town its pronounced different:-)
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Maria
Reply: on September 5th, 2009 at 11:31 amHi Nancy
Thanks for dropping in.
I guess there is some diff between pachadi n kichadi. In pachadi vegetables are cooked by adding water and in Kichadi vegetables are fried (source: google search :) ). Rest everything else is same :)
Btw, your blog is very interesting. I’ve bookmarked :)
Cheers
Maria
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Yummy. I never liked pavakkas before.But now its changed
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Maria
Reply: on September 18th, 2009 at 9:11 pmHi Misha
Thanks for dropping in.
Happy to know that you liked this :)
Cheers
Maria
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Hi
Same way I tried 15 days back!! What a
co incidence! I did not put coconut but!!
It came out very tasty!!
Lovely photo!
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i tried pvakka kichadi.it turnedout real good .my friend also had some,she loved it.
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Hi Maria
I tried pavakka kichadi…was soo soo good…. now i can add one more dish to my list :D .. my husband also loved it…. thank you so much…..
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Agnes & Elsa,
thank you dearies :)
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I made this for Onam Sadya we hosted for our family friends, this Kichadi was a real hit as everyone liked the dish & asked for the recipe, the recipe is a simple one but its a sure mouth watering one… Thanks Maria for a nice recipe
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Maria
Reply: on August 28th, 2010 at 4:54 pmHi Latha,
Thanks for the comment :) Glad to know that you had a great Onam with your family n friends.
Its one of my fav recipes too…
Cheers
Maria
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