There was a big lone Sorakkai crammed into our already bursting fridge and it was sitting there in that jam-packed vegetable basket for 4 days now with no hope of getting out. I saw it every-day and made a mental note to do something with it the next day but never got around to it what with the formula menus at home (like Sambar & potato thokku, kuzhambu & cabbage kootu). The 5th day I was asked to make breakfast because everyone else was busy. I could decide what to do! Yipee! This doesn’t happen often. I decided to rescue the Sorakkai from its stuffy station and style it into a chutney. I love these vegetable chutnies/pachadis but my husband doesn’t. Heck, you can’t please all of them all the time. I was going to make the Sorakai pachadi come what may. I had memorized the Sorakaya pachadi recipe on Sailusfood the previous night and I was prepared.
Prep time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
Serves: 4-5
Sorakkai – 3 cups unpeeled, cubed
Whole dry Red chillies – 4
Green chillies – 3 chopped roughly
Coriander seeds/Whole Dhania – 1 tsp
Fried gram/Pottukadalai – 1 tsp
Channa dal/Whole Kadalai paruppu – 2 tsp
Garlic – 5 large cloves peeled
Coriander leaves – a handful chopped
Curry leaves – picked from 1 stem
Tamarind – small marble sized piece
Jaggery – 2 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil – 2 tbsp
Oil – 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
Cumin – 1 tsp
Curry leaves – picked from 1 stem
Method
Thank you for rescuing the lone sorakkai from my ref:-p this is a very healthy dish.
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