Potlakaya Chutney

Potlakaya pachadi - yet another spicy Andhra style pachadi recipe with snake gourd aka potlakaya.

My mother makes potlakaya perugu pachadi with this veggie, another famous Andhra recipe.

During Navratri, we went to Durga temple and they gave us this veggie as Prasadam. For shakambari alankaram, they decorate Durga Devi with all veggies and distribute them later to the devotees.

On the same day, on a local tv channel, I watched this snake gourd chutney recipe. I tried it immediately and it turned out delicious. From then we are eating this vegetable weekly once.

Sometimes, mostly on busy weekday mornings, I make this potlakaya pachadi in a mixer grinder. Else will do it in a mortar pestle.

I also do similar pachadi recipes with dosakaya and brinjal.

Dosakaya pachadi

Vankaya pachadi

There are many other pachadi recipes on this blog, do check them out.

Potlakaya pachadi recipe with step by step pictures:

Soak the tamarind in little water. Just enough for soaking it.

Dry roast the urad dal in a pan till it turns brown and smells aromatic. Once it is done, take it aside on to a plate.

To the same pan, add a teaspoon of oil and fry red chili. Take it into mortar pestle.

Add some more oil, chopped snake gourd, and salt to the pan. And cover the pan with a lid, let it cook in its own water.

Switch off the flame once the vegetable is cooked completely. I cooked the veggie for approximately 10 minutes.

In the meantime, add turmeric powder, coriander seeds powder, fried red chili, salt, garlic cloves, roasted cumin and fenugreek seeds to the mortar pestle.

Crush the ingredients till we get the rough paste out of them.

Now add roasted urad dal to the mortar pestle and pound them roughly. It will take a bit of time but its worthful 🙂

Add the soaked tamarind and make a paste out of all ingredients.

Now add cooked snake gourd and roughly mash it.

Finally, add roughly chopped onions and pound these as well. Rough pieces of snake gourd and onions will marinate in tamarind and taste good after some time.

Take the potlakaya pachadi into a serving bowl. Make tadka using tadka ingredients and add it to the snake gourd chutney, mix it well and it is ready to serve!

Serve this potlakaya pachadi with hot rice and ghee like all Andhra chutneys. At home, we also eat this for roti, bhakri, and dosa.

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Snake gourd chutney recipe:

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