Gongura Pachadi

Ingredients:
Gongura leaves - bunch
Garlic cloves -3/4
Dry red chillies - 10/15 (as per your taste)
Salt

Seasoning:
Oil 2-3 Red Chillies
Karipatta Mustard seeds
Urad dal
Channa dal
Asafoetida - a pinch

Preparation:
Wash the gongura leaves well and fry them in 3-4 tbsp of oil, till the leaves color changes to dark green in color.
Dry fry red chillies and keep them aside.
In a blender, grind roasted red chillies, gongura leaves and salt all together.
Now, for the seasoning heat 3-4 tbsp of oil, add mustard seeds, urad dal, channa dal, karipatta, mashed garlic cloves, asafoetida and red chillies. Now add this to the gongura pachadi.Enjoy with rice.

Capsicum Pachadi

Ingredients :Capsicum - 4
Green chillies - 2
Garlic pods - 2-3 medium
Jeera - 1-2 tspn
Tamarind water - 3 tbsp
Oil - 2-3 tspn
Salt to taste
Method :1.Heat oil in a pan and add green chillies, capsicum and close with the lid.
2.Let them cook on slow flame.
3.Remove from the fire once they become soft (Takes roughly 7 min).Remember,….don’t overcook them.
4.In a mixie, add garlic pods, above softened capsicum + green chillies , jeera, tamarind water, salt. Grind them.
5.Serve with hot rice

For tempering :

1.Heat 1 tspn of oil in a pan , add red chillies(Check the spice level of the chutney once , since we have already added green chillies during frying.), 1 tspn of urad dal + Chana dal, jeera-1/2-1 tspn, mustard seeds-1/2 tspn.
2.When mustard seeds splutter add curry leaves - 10 no. , coriander leaves (optional).
3.Add this mixture to the chutney.

Gongura Pickle

Ingredients

• Gongura - 2 bunches
• Red chillies - about 15
• Garlic (optional) - 6 flakes
• Salt - as required

Method

1. Pluck the leaves from bunches. Wash gongura and wipe it with clean towel.
2. Heat oil in the pan, fry red chillies, add a pinch of asafetida and mustard seeds.
3. When the seeds starts spluttering, add gongura and garlic flakes.
4. Add salt and cook for about 10 to 15 minutes (until the it becomes kind of lumpy).
5. Grind this smoothly and serve with hot rice and ghee.

Gongura pachadi

Ingredients:

Gongura(sour leaves)……..2 bunches
Green chilli………..10
Salt…………as required

Tampering:

Garlic………1 pod
Coriander seeds…..2 tbsp
Cumin seeds…..1 tsp
Mustard seeds….1 tsp
Gram dal…….2 tbsp
Urad dal…….2 tbsp
Red chilly…….4
Fenu greek seeds….1/4 th tsp
Curry leaves….1 stalk(optional)

METHOD:

Wash the sour leaves.
In a wide pan heat 2 tbsp of oil and add the leaves and green chillies.
Cover and cook until the leaves are well cooked and changes the color.
Take out of the pan and keep aside to cool.
In the same pan add some more oil and fry all the ingredients for tampering except the garlic..
When they are also cool grind them along with sour leaves.Add salt .
Now take 2 tbsp of oil ina pan and heat.Add garlic ,cumin and mustard.
Mix in the grounded chutney.
Add some chopped raw onion to it or else u can take along wth the rice.
Gongura pachadi

Capsicum Pachadi

Ingredients :

• Capsicum - 4
• Green chillies - 2
• Garlic pods - 2-3 medium
• Jeera - 1-2 tspn
• Tamarind water - 3 tbsp
• Oil - 2-3 tspn
• Salt to taste 

Method :

1. 1.Heat oil in a pan and add green chillies, capsicum and close with the lid.
2. 2.Let them cook on slow flame.
3. 3.Remove from the fire once they become soft (Takes roughly 7 min).Remember,….don’t overcook them.
4. 4.In a mixie, add garlic pods, above softened capsicum + green chillies , jeera, tamarind water, salt. Grind them.
5. 5.Serve with hot rice

For tempering :

• 1.Heat 1 tspn of oil in a pan , add red chillies(Check the spice level of the chutney once , since we have already added green chillies during frying.), 1 tspn of urad dal + Chana dal, jeera-1/2-1 tspn, mustard seeds-1/2 tspn.
• 2.When mustard seeds splutter add curry leaves - 10 no. , coriander leaves (optional).
• 3.Add this mixture to the chutney.