TOMATO APPLE PACHADI

Tomato Apple  Pachadi is made with tomatoe, apple and green chilli.  It is a nice combo with chapati, pulao and steamed  rice.  The apples which we recently purchased was not tasty at all and children refused to eat as it was not sweet.  Hence decided to make use of it in pachadi as I was late from office and had to make some gravy subzi for the roti very soon.    It was easy to make and tasty too.  I made it in two different ways  one with yoghurt and one without yoghurt.

Let us look at the recipe now:

1 apple
2 ripe tomatoes
2-3 green chilli (the  one we get for making subzi) see the picture.
a big lemon size  piece of jaggery
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
a pinch of turmeric powder
1/4 cup Yoghurt (optional)
salt

tempering:

1 tsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
1/4 tsp cumin seeds
few curry leaves.

garnishing:

few chopped coriander leaves.

Method:

wash and cut the tomatoes, apple, chilli separately.  Heat oil in kadai.  add the mustard seeds and cumin seeds. when it splutters, add the curry leaves.  saute for a second and add the green chilly and saute for few seconds, add the tomatoes, apple, turmeric powder  and saute the same till soft.  when you saute the same, it becomes soft and will be able to mash it so that the apple pieces will not be visible.  add the jaggery, red chilli powder, salt  and saute till you reaches a semi solid form.  You can add water to make it little watery or can add the yoghurt.  adjust the consistency according to your requirement by adding water or yoghurt.

If you are adding yoghurt, cool the tomato gravy, beat the yoghurt  and then add it.   you can make both the ways, tastes good with chapati, rice.  watchYouTube: http://youtu.be/4EzVHvpBLgQ      http://youtu.be/ibiHJRhsWg8




Note:  Keep the apple after cutting in water with little lime juice for avoiding discolouration.