October 4, 2009: Beet Cheera Pachadi

blog post, nosotros promised to hunt downwards a recipe ane time nosotros were dorsum inwards Commonwealth of Australia and, 3 years later, we've in conclusion done it.

I whipped it upwards on Lord's Day for a byo curry lunch, together with it clearly won the pinkest dish of the day. Colour aside, it's an interesting combination of flavours, amongst the earthy, sweetness beetroot offset past times the spices together with the slight tang of the yoghurt. Looking back, it seems that Rasa blended their ingredients upwards into a smoother mush, piece our recipe left trivial cubes of beetroot to savor - I retrieve the textural diversity was a plus.

It's a fair flake of move together with your hands terminate upwards looking similar you've been involved inwards a peculiarly gruesome crime, together with thus it powerfulness endure a piece earlier I line this recipe out again. But if you're looking for something a flake unlike to accept along to a curry night, this is good worth a shot.


Beet Cheera Pachadi
(from Cooking Index)

4 medium beetroots
100g dessicated coconut
2 light-green chillies, chopped
1 tablespoon minced ginger
3 teaspoons mustard seeds
2 tablespoons vegie oil
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon chilli powder
250g fresh spinach leaves, washed together with coarsely chopped
1 loving cup yoghurt
Salt together with pepper

Trim together with tegument the beets, together with cutting into 1cm cubes. Bring a saucepan of H2O to the boil together with add together the beet cubes, cooking for virtually twenty minutes, until tender.

In the meantime, pose the coconut, chillies, ginger together with 1 teaspoon of mustard seeds inwards a nutrient processor together with grind to a paste.

When the beetroot is cooked, drain together with transfer to a bowl. Heat the stone oil inwards your saucepan together with add together the residue of the mustard seeds. Once they offset popping, pose the beetroot dorsum in, along amongst the turmeric, chilli powder, tabular array salt together with pepper together with develop for virtually 10 minutes, stirring regularly.

Add inwards the glue from the nutrient processor along amongst the spinach together with develop until the spinach leaves stimulate got wilted. Cover together with develop for 10 to a greater extent than minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat, stir the yoghurt through together with serve.

Note: the master copy recipe has fresh curry leaves inwards it - these would endure a non bad addition, but nosotros couldn't discovery whatsoever locally together with were besides lazy to kind our internet to a greater extent than widely.