Palak Pachadi (Spinach Raitha)

Palak Pachadi is a healthy, comfort dish. This can be served as a side dish with a spicy meal.

Palak a type of spinach, can be quickly and easily prepared as Raitha (Tamil equivalent of Pachadi). In my family, we love this raitha with ginger flavor.

Ingredients

• Palak boiled and mashed partially – 1 cup (I boiled it in microwave oven)
• Fresh curd – 1½ cup
• Salt – as per taste
• For seasoning
  • Mustard – ½ tea spoon
  • Urad dal – ½ tea spoon
  • Red chilli – 1 no
  • Green chilli chopped finely – 1 no
  • Ginger grated – 1 table spoon
  • Asafetida – pinch
  • Curry leaves – few
  • Oil – 1 tea spoon

Method

• Wash, chop and boil spinach with few cumin seeds (I did it in microwave oven).

• Blend boiled spinach partially; mix it with curd and salt; heat a pan with oil and do the seasoning; let the seasoning fry well and become crisp; transfer it to curd spinach mix.

• Mix and serve it chilled.

Tips

• This pachadi can be prepared with other greens like Mulai Keerai (Amaranth).