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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Nellikka Pachadi/Amla Raita



Recipe Source: My Kitchen Experiments
Ingredients
Amla / Nellikka / Indian Gooseberry - 8
Grated Coconut - 2 tablespoons
Green chillies - 2 nos
Yogurt / Curd - 1 cup
Salt - to taste
Oil - 2 teaspoons
Mustard seeds - 1/4 teaspoon
Curry leaves - 1 string
Red Chilli: 3



Method Of Preparation
In a saucepan, boil 1 cup of water with salt. When it is boiling add amlas and cook only for 3-5 minutes in full flame. Make sure not to over cook.
Once the amlas are cooked, allow it to cool to room temperature and chop them.
Add half the quantity of chopped amla, grated coconut, green chillies to a mixer and make a coarse paste of it.
Take fresh curd in a bowl and beat it well for few seconds.
Add coarse amla coconut paste to this curd. Add salt and half of the chopped amla to it. Mix well.
In a seasoning pan, heat oil and throw mustard seeds, red chilli and curry leaves. Let it splutter.
Add this seasoning to the curd amla mixture.
Serve with rice.



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