Thakkali /Tomato Sweet Pachadi is
an authentic dish which is served in Tamil Brahmin weddings . this dish served either in Kalyana sappadu (marriage
feast), or in poojais like Samarathanai, Sumangali prarthanai. Me
and My family have sweet tooth. So we enjoy everything that is sweet. On Festival days I prepare Mango
pachadi, Fruit Pachadi, This time I prepared Sweet Tomato pachadi. outcome of this
sweet and tangy taste of this Pachadi' simply
delicious.you can keep this pachadi for a week.
Ingredients
Tomatoes - 8
Sugar- 11/2cups
Water-1/4cup
Ghee - 2tbsp
Cashews - 2 tbsp
Raisins - 2tbsp
Dates - 2 to 3 seedless dates chopped finely
Method:
1.Wash and chop the tomato into small pieces.
2. In the heavy bottom pan one tablespoon of ghee and Fry
the dates, cashew nuts, raisins separately and Remove and keep them aside.
3. In the same pan add sugar and water. No need to wait for
the sugar to dissolve completely. Just add the water and slightly mix and leave
it. Then in a same pan add the chopped
tomato to the sugar and stir well.
4.Do not add any water, after adding tomatoes, as the
tomatoes will leave out water while cooking.
5.To get the perfect consistency the tomatoes need to be
cooked for some time. Keep this in a medium low flame and stir continuously.
6. Once all the water
content evaporates and the tomatoes will
get the glossy texture and while the
consistency becomes thick add 1 tsp of ghee and mix well.
7. Now you can add
the fried cashews, raisins and the dates and mix them for 2 minutes.
8.Yummy tomato sweet pachadi is ready to be served.
