Pachai Sundakkai Thogayal || Diabetic friendly turkey berry thuvayal || Tamil Nadu popular Sundakkai Thogayal

 Pachai Sundakkai thogayal/ thuvayal with step by step pics and tips. It is popular thogayal recipe from Tamil Nadu cuisine. Sundakkai means turkey berries in English, usthikaya in Telugu and kudanekayi in Kannada. Thogayal or thuvayal is tasty appetizer which looks like chutney. We always confuse the difference between thogayal /thuvayal and chutney , thogayal / thuvayal  and chutney is different in taste and texture. 

Check out chutney recipes from youtube channel

Pachai Sundakkai Thogayal - https://youtu.be/N5ucJoaoII0

Wood Apple Chutney / Vellakaya pachadi -

https://youtu.be/WZP_x5zKrxc

Difference between Thogayal / Thuvayal & chutney

*Thogayal is thick in one consistency, we can have it with plain rice or with curd rice. We use less water or no water while grinding. Ingredients like urad dal, red chillies, mustard and chillies are fried before grinding. Giving tempering to thogayal is optional. We call it as roti pachadi in Telugu. 

*Chutney is thin or running consistency, and mostly we have it with breakfast like idli, dosa or upma. We use water while grinding chutney. 

  Sundakkai taste bitter, but it has many health benefits, it controls diabetes, prevents gas trouble, strengthen bones and many more. I have turkey berry plant in my garden, I prepared this chutney few times, hubby loved it a lot. I experimented it in different ways, but loved this thogayal a lot. Fresh turkey taste bitter, thogayal which i am sharing is not much bitter in taste. Have this thogayal with hot steamed rice and dollop of ghee or with gingelly oil, surely you will love to have it again and again.

Health benefits of Turkey Berry / Pachai Sundakkai 

*Promotes Digestion

* Good for diabetic people

* Treats Anemia

* It is rich in Vit-C, acts as antioxidant & anti infection

* Cures abdominal cramps

* Cures indigestion problems

* Good for heart

* Promotes kidney functioning 

Do check Turkey berry some chutney recipes from my blog..

** Sundakkai vatha kuzhambu

** Karivepakku pachadi / curry leaf chutney

**    Andhra kandi pachadi / toor dal chutney

**   Mango bisi uppinakayi

**  Green tomato chutney

** ChuukkaKura/ Khatti palak chutney

** Guntur Dosakaya Pachadi

** Brinjal chutney

**  Kobbari perugu pachadi

** Ridge gourd chutney

** Coriander Tomato chutney

** Coconut Chutney

** Raw Mango Moong dal chutney

** Pudina coconut chutney

Foodie Monday Blog Hop

Taking this Corn chaat to #FoodieMondayBloghop fb group #262Bitterbut Good theme. Here every week one member from group in alphabetical order will suggest 2 theme, others will vote. High voted theme will be selected, everyone prepare recipes according to theme. This week theme was suggested by Sasmita, she want us to prepare any recipe which is bitter in taste. She is a wonderful and talented chef I love her photography and presentation skills they are very attractive. Check out her space for different varieties of recipes from different regions and Odisha cuisines.I bookmarked her Bhapa Aam Doi in oven, Savory semolina bundant cake . Do check her blog for yummy food mesmerizing pics.

                                

  

    

                                    Pachai Sundakkai Thogayal

Preparation time  - 10 minutes

cook Time : 15 minutes

Serves : 2

Category : Chutney / Thogayal / Regional 

Recipe Cuisine: Tamil Nadu

Main ingredients : Pachai Sundakkai / Fresh turkey berry

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

   

Ingredients

Turkey berry - 50 grams

gingelly oil - 2 tsp

mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

urad dal - 1 tsp

chana dal -1 tsp

curry leaves - 1 sprig (I dint used ** check tips)

red chilli - 3

green chilli -2

fresh coconut - 2 tsp

tamarind- small marble size

hing - 1 pinch

turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

jaggery - 1/2 tsp

Instructions

1) Fresh turkey berry looks like this.

                               

2)Remove turkey berry heads and wash it well in water.

3) Heat 2 tsp of  gingelly oil or normal oil in a kadai. Gingelly oil gives very aroma and good taste to thogayal.

4) Add 1/2 tsp of mustard seeds fry it on low flames.

5) When mustard seeds starts crackling, add 2 tsp of urad dal fry till changes color. Then add methi seeds, red & green chilli fry well and take it into plate.

6) Crush fresh turkey berry in mortar pestle coarsely, then fry it in kadai on low flames.

7) When white layer formed on turkey berry then switch off the flames.

8) Take fried ingredients into mixer jar, add turmeric powder, hing, coconut pieces, tamarind, jaggery and grind it coarsely.

9) Now add fried turkey berry, salt in the above add some water and grind it finely.

That's it our healthy and tasty pachai sundakkai thogayal is ready to serve. Serve it with hot steamed rice, dollop of ghee and enjoy your meal.

Tips

** By adding fresh coconut and jaggery will reduce bitter taste. If you want thogayal bitter skip adding both.

** Chutney color depends on the variety of red chilli we are using. For video i used Kashmiri red chilli so thogayal color was red.

** crush turkey berry before frying, as it changes color quickly.

** You can also add onions, garlic by frying.

** Add less water to get thick consistency.

Do check some chutney recipes from my YouTube Channel and blog, surely you will like it...

                Velakkaya Pachadi / Wood Apple Chutney(video link)

                       
                                Sundakkai vatha kuzhambu

                    

                                  Karivepakku pachadi / curry leaf chutney

   

                                     
    mosdeng serma-tripura tomato-chutney

      Andhra kandi pachadi / toor dal chutney

                      Momos chutney

                   Mango bisi uppinakayi

              Nagaland - Pumpkin Oambal

                        Ugadi Pachadi

                Green chutney

                   Green tomato chutney

ChuukkaKura/ Khatti palak chutney

                      Guntur Dosakaya Pachadi

                 Brinjal chutney

           Kobbari perugu pachadi

Ridge gourd chutney

               Coriander Tomato chutney

                        Coconut Chutney

   Raw Mango Moong dal chutney

             Pudina coconut chutney

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Bellam Undrallu || Vinayaka chavithi prasadam Teepi undrallu || Bellam Kudumulu

Bellam Undrallu || Bellam kudumulu with step by step pics & tips. Undrallu are steamed flour dumplings, prepared as naivedyam to Lord Ganesha on Vinayaka chavithi/ chathurthi festival. Check this recipe in my youtube channel

https://youtu.be/s-XUG3eyjhw

We can prepare it in two varieties savory and sweet . I already shared savory rice rava dumplings/ undrallu recipe in my blog &  youtube channel

https://youtu.be/W9bClmyhezo check it out. Today i am sharing jaggery rice flour dumpling called as "Bellam Undrallu" in Telugu. It is very divine, delicious and very easy to prepare naivedyam recipe with less ingredients.

Important points:

 ** Color of bellam undrallu depends on type of jaggery you are using, also it changes color after steaming. 

**You can also prepare this using rice rava. If using rice rava then remember this ratio 1:2 rice rava : water. 

** For rice flour we use 1:1&1/2 or 1:1/4 rice flour:water. After cooking rice dough, let it side for 15 minutes. 

**Steam it 8 to 10 min on medium to high flames, later set it aside for 5 minutes, so that you will get good glassy look to undrallu. If you steam undrallu for long time, they will become hard.

Foodie Monday Blog Hop

Taking this regional & festive "Bellam Undrallu" recipe to FoodieMondayBloghop fb groups #260MeethePal. By this time you are all aware that i am part of this lovely group where we bloggers share recipe for theme suggested by a person in alphabetical order every week. This week Sujata Roy di suggested theme, we all selected sweet recipe theme. I like Sujati di's cooking a lot, she is "Rasagulla Queen", you can find many varieties of traditional and infusion rasagulla recipes like chilli rasagulla in her site, check out her varieties of rasugulla's. Also loved her latest caramel custard.  Do not miss checking my blogger friends yummy and delicious sweet recipe.

  

                                    

                                                             Bellam Undrallu

Preparation time - 15 minutes

cook time :  25 min

Serves : 15 bellam undrallu 

Category : Prasadam/Regional/Festival/Sweets

Recipe Cuisine: Andhra

Main ingredients : Rice flour, jaggery 

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

   

Ingredients

Rice flour - 1 glass

jaggery - 3/4 to 1 glass(adjust)

fresh grated/ scrapped coconut - 2 tsp

soaked chana dal - 2 tsp

elachi powder - 1 tsp

ghee- 2 tsp

water - 1 + 1/4 glass

** Soak chana dal for 1 to 2 hrs or 30 min in hot  water, so that it quickly. Or cook chana dal separately and add it.

Instructions

1) Depending on your taste use 3/4 or 1 glass of jaggery. Add jaggery in a kadai to this add 1/4 glass of water, melt it on low flames.

2) Strain jaggery using strainer, this will remove dust from jaggery.

3) Now add 1 tsp of ghee in a kadai, to this add soaked chana dal fry it for a second. Later add fresh grated coconut fry it well on low flames for few seconds.

4) To this add 1 glass of water and mix everything well. Boil till chana dal becomes smooth. For 1 glass of rice we take 1 or 1& 1/2 glass of water (1:1&1/4 or 1:1&1/2 rice flour : water). We already added 1/4 glass of water while melting jaggery, so i used 1 glass of water here.

5) To this add melted jaggery, mix everything well and boil for a minute. Now add 1 glass of rice flour with one hand, and mix well with other hand without any lumps(** Make sure that chana dal soaked well.)

6) Mix rice flour well on low flames, after mixing flour switch off the flames. Close the lid and let it set aside for 10 to 15 min.

7) After 15 min open lid, take dough in a bowl. Add ghee to your and mix dough well. Now apply some more ghee to your hands or dip your hands in water and pinch some dough.  you can mold it like ladoo's or press it flat (thin or thick as per your wish) like small puri as per your wish. I prepared both shapes, check pics..

8) Now add 1 cup of water in idli cooker or in steamer, let it boil on high flames for a minute. Mean while grease idli stand or steamer plate/bowl with ghee or place banana leaf on steamer plate and place prepared bellam undrallu on it.  Now place it in idli cooker & steam it for 8 minutes on medium to high flames.

9) As my steamer bowl is small i steamed 2 shapes of undrallu separately. Take the above kudumulu in a plate and closed the lid & keep it aside for 5 min. Now steam round undrallu for 8 min on medium to high flames.

10) After 8 min, close the lid & keep it aside for 5 min to set.

 

That's it our traditional & delicious "Bellam Undrallu" are ready to offer Lord Ganesha. You can also prepare this for Sankashta or on normal days too..

Tips

** Use 1 : 1&1/2 or 1:1/4 ratio of rice flour : water to get perfect dough.

** If you feel your dough is very tight sprinkle some hot water.

** If you feel your dough is sticky add some flour.

** Resting dough for 10 to 15 min after cooking is must, in

order to set dough.

** Make sure that chana dal soaked well. If you do not have much time to soak chana dal, then cook it separately and add it.

** Do not steam for long time, it will become hard.

** After steaming, let it set aside for minimum 5 min to get good glassy look.

Hope this recipe with step by step pics, tips (video will share soon) is useful to you. Do not forgot to subscribe my YouTube channel & follow on social media links.

Also check some prasadam recipe videos in youtube  & written recipe in  blog by just clicking the link below pic..

                                 

Karnataka Temple Puliyogare(video link)

                        Maharashtrian Narali Bhaat(video link)

Savory Undrallu (video link)

                            

                             

                      Pineapple Rava Kesari(video link)

                           bellam palathalikalu(blog link)

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