Beetroot Pachdi

About Beetroot Pachdi

Ingredients

• Beetroots, peeled and grated 1 cup
• Ginger, chopped 1 tsp
• Green chilli 1
• Dried red chillies 2
• Cumin seeds ½ tsp
• Mustard seeds ½ tsp
• Curry leaves 4 to 5
• Turmeric powder ½ tsp
• Fresh coconut, scraped 1½ tbsps
• Coconut oil 1½ tbsps
• Yogurt 3 tbsps
• Salt to taste

How to Make Beetroot Pachdi (Stepwise Photos)

Method

1. Heat a non-stick pan, add beetroot and a little water and cook for some time.
2. Put ginger, green chilli, red chillies, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, curry leaves, turmeric powder, coconut and a little water in a mixer jar and grind to a paste.
3. Add this paste to beetroot. Rinse the mixer jar with a little water and add it to the beetroot mixture and mix well. Cook for 2-3 minutes.
4. Heat coconut oil in a small non-stick pan, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and curry leaves and saute till the seeds splutter. Add this tempering to the beetroot pachdi and mix well.
5. Transfer into a bowl, add yogurt and salt and mix well. Serve.

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Chef Shantanu Gupte

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Chaitrali Deshmukh

Thank you for the amazing instructions.

I have success w/ my dosa but does not last long stored in the refrigerator.

Maybe I am fermenting for too long, or add the salt before the rise?

I also was wondering if it is important to blend separately or can it be blended all together?

Reply

Chef Saransh Goila

Hi Chaitrali,
Yes, cut down the fermentation time and add salt only to the required portion at the time of making the dosa. Also storing in smaller containers just enough for a day helps. Once the batter in a larger container is disturbed (by stirring or scooping out a little etc), I feel it turns sour faster. You can blend them together if you want. But we do it separately because we want the dal batter to become fluffy and the rice batter slightly coarse. Fluffy dal batter makes the dosas light and coarse rice batter makes them extra crispy without making the dosas hard. Hope this helps