Ugadi Pachadi Recipe | Andhra Ugadi Recipes
Authentic Ugadi pachadi recipe with 6 ingredients. It is the traditional dish prepared on Ugadi festival day with 6 different taste and ingredients that denotes 6 emotions of life.
Servings: 2 people
Ingredients
- 1 cup Water Adjust from 1/2 to 1 cup
- 1 tsp Thick Tamarind pulp Or soak Gooseberry size
- ¼ cup Raw mango finely chopped, Use baby mango for best taste.
- 2 to 3 tbsp Grated jaggery
- ½ tsp Pepper powder 10 pepper corns
- 1 tbsp Crushed Neem flower I used dried one, fresh is the best
- ¼ tsp Salt
Some people also add ripe banana pieces, coconut bits, few pieces of sugar cane and roasted gram dal / fried chana dal which is optional.
Instructions
- Wash and chop the raw mango pieces finely. Soak gooseberry sized tamarind in water and take the extract using 1/2 to 1 cup of water. You can add 1 to 2 tsp of readymade tamarind pulp instead and mix with water. Set aside.
- If the jaggery has impurities, you can dissolve the jaggery in little water, strain it and then add to the tamarind water.
- In a bowl, take the finely chopped raw mango pieces, tamarind extract, pepper powder or finely chopped green chilli, powdered jaggery, salt, neem flower and mix well.
- Add little water to adjust the consistency based on your liking.
- Some like it to have it thick and some likes to be thin. Please add water accordingly.
- Offer to God on Ugadi festival day and enjoy !
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Notes
For variations, use red chilli powder or finely chopped green chilli instead of pepper powder.
Use Baby mango for best and mild sour taste.
Some people also add few coconut pieces.
Some also add small pieces of sugar cane, puttani /fried gram dal
Adjust the taste and consistency as per your taste.
Addition of fresh neem flowers is the best. It helps to purify the blood. You can use dried ones if you don't get fresh neem leaves. But its a must to add.