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
- 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)
- 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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