Sorakaya Tomato Pachadi

Sorakaya and tomato pachadi or sorakaya pachadi or sorakaya chutney is a andhra style chutney Recipe.Sorakaya Pachhadi / Bottle Gourd Chutney/anapakaya pachadi is good to have along with Dosa,idli,vada and Rice even.It is very easy to Prepare, it only takes about 15 min's for the whole process. Bottle gourd/sorakaya is a low calorie vegetable with high in dietary fibre and provides only 15 calories per 100 gm and only 0.1 gm fat in 100 gms.

Ingredients:

• Bottle gourd(cut into small pieces)-2 cups
• Tomato-2
• Green chillies-8 to 10
• Salt-To taste
• Coriander-1/4 bunch
• Oil-2 spoons

For the seasoning/popu/tadka:

• Mustard seeds-1/4 tsp
• Cumin seeds-1/4 spoon
• Dry chillies-1 or 2
• Garlic cloves-2 or 3
• Curry leaves-Few
• Oil-1 spoons(i am using less oil)

How to prepare:

• Peel of bottle gourd and cut into small pieces and tomato as well.
• In pan add oil, add sorakaya/anapakaya/bottle gourd,cilantro,green chillies and tomato pieces, fry on a medium flame till they are cooked.
• Now transfer this to a blender and grind to rough or smooth paste by adding salt to it.
• Now take a kadai/nonstick pan, heat oil add mustard seeds. when mustard seeds splutters add cumin seeds,garlic cloves,dry chillies,curry leaves and fry for 10 sec.
• When they splutter, add popu to ground chutney.
• Serve with dosa,rice,idli or vada.

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