Thanks to all my blogger friends for their sweet comments and for eagerly waiting for more recipes from the yum blog! 🙂
My mother became seriously ill in mid february and was hospitalised for more than three weeks. I was in Gurgoan, taking care of my mother in the hospital during day time. In the past few days, I have learnt a lot about balanced diet, physiotherapy, some info on medical science and a few yummy andhra recipes from my sister in law Padma.
You give anything to an andhra lady, she will prepare a pachadi ( thogayal or chutney) out of it! 🙂 Here’s the recipe for venthaya keerai thogayal( Fenugreek leaves chutney), Padma prepared for me.
Fenugreek leaves chutney.( Venthaya Keerai Thogayal)
Ingredients
- Fenugreek leaves – 1 cup
- Urad dal – 1/2 cup
- Red chillies – 4 nos
- Mustard seeds – 1 teaspoon
- Hing – a small piece
- Tamarind – 2 inch piece
- Salt – to taste
- Oil – 1 tablespoon
Method
- Wash and drain the fenugreek leaves.
- Heat oil in a kadai and fry urad dal, mustard seeds, hing and redchillies till golden.
- Add the fenugreek leaves and fry for 3 minutes on a medium flame stirring continously.
- Allow to cool. Add salt and tamarind and grind to a coarse chutney.
This chutney tastes good with rice, rotis and any southindian tiffins.
Hi Latha! Nice recipe.
Sorry to hear of your mother’s illness. My best wishes for her complete recovery!
The chutney sounds delicious.
Hope she is doing okay now Latha. Yeah, one of the things we have to deal with old parents but glad you could help them. Learnt a lot there too, which helps you too.
So good to see you, I even heard from L after a long time too!:D
Thogayal sounds yum. I get frozen methi here which is not that good, but will grow some shortly here and try!:)
I am getting Arusuvai from Mandira, will do that too, I am excited. I am going off blogging from March 20th to April 20th, got to get some break!:D
Welcome back Latha, hugs!:)
Hope your mother is better now. I know how full of tension a hospitalisation can be.
This is an interesting thogayal. Wouldn’t it be a bit bitter or does the tamarind mask the taste? I enjoy fenugreek leaves in any form but my family doesn’t always. 😦
Yummy latha mami! Will surely try this when i get my hands on methi again! I will pray for your amma – hope she does nto suffer a lot and gets better!
Hugs
Good to see you again mami. Hope your mom is doing better.
This is the first time i am seeing a thogayal with vendhaya keerai.. great idea.
Welcome back, Maami. Wishing your mom speedy recovery.
Hope your mother is doing good. My best wishes for her. You are true, if “you give anything to an andhra lady, she will prepare a pachadi”. Being a telugu girl, I agree with it. I also do the same. The Fenugreek leaves chutney is really a delicious chutney. Thanks for the simple and easy recipe.
So glad you are back, and hope your mother continues to do well.
great to see you back, and wishing your mother a complete and quick recovery.
Good to see you back. Hope your mother is doing better now.
Great to see you back lathamma, hope your mother is going better now.
It was funny how you said the same thing abt an andhra lady and pachadi..I said the same thing too abt my athamma…
http://cooking4allseasons.blogspot.com/2008/02/gooseberry-chutney-or-usirikai-pachadi.html
Glad to see you back Latha.While visiting your blog I used to hum ‘Jhalak dikhlaaja …….’:-DD
Hope your mother is doing better now.I wish her a complete and speedy recovery.
You are cent percent right about ‘andhra and pachchadi ‘.Recently, i saw an andhra lady preparing pachchadi with rose petals on a t.v show.!…:))
Hi Latha, nice to see you back! Here’s wishing your mom a speedy recovery.
To Satya – rose petals! Which channel was this, do let me know, I’ll try to catch a re-run, do Telugu channeld do re-runs?
Glad to see you back, Latha mami. Wishing your mother a speedy recovery. Hope she is fine now.
I loved the recipe and I have some methi leaves sitting in the fridge that is ‘calling’ my name. 🙂
Thogayal from Vandaya Keerai sounds interesting.. Yes these andhra folks are too good on any chutney variety & their spice levels are amazingly high too! Will try this out. Wishing your mom good health & speedy recovery.
Good to have you back Latha Maami. Hope your mother is feeling much better now and doing well.
Welcome back Latha… Sorry to hear about your mom’s illness… Hope she gets better soon!
Hi Latha,
How is your Amma Now???
Different version of thogayal with Methi leaves… Thanks for sharing
Nice to have you back Latha. Hope your mother is doing well now. Take care. Thogayal is yummy. Viji
Now i know why we didn’t see you here. Hope your mom os much better. Give her our good wishes.
Welcome back and take care of ur mother Latha mam,,
Even I am back with thogaiyal!! 🙂
Thanks ! Goes straight into the One page cookbook – 1001 Thogayals 🙂
To Sra, I left a reply in the comments section of your latest post.
Hope amma is feeling better.
I know what you mean about the anyting-goes-into-thogayal attitude in Andhra 😀 hehehe
Welcome back and so very sorry to hear of your mother’s illness but wishing her a very speedy recovery!!
Take care now!!
Rosie x
Hi Lathamma,
I am so sorry to know about ur mom’s illness. take care.
Reg ur comment on my blog:
Even, I loved the previous template amma, but on low internet speeds, the header was not properly loading. and this was my 2nd template that I changed in a month. The current one is just a temporary thing and will change it *for sure* in couple of months- this time when I am sure it had NO problems.. hehehe..
cya,
Siri
Hope ur mother is doing good now amma.
Siri
Speedy and a full recovery to your mom. Many blessings on you for taking such good care of her.
Hope paatti is doing better now!..what about thatha? where is he now?
Very interesting recipe…new to me..(only make sambhar or aloo methi with these)..will certainly try!:)
Last but not the least ..
Welcome back Ma 🙂
Hope your mother is doing better now…..
Interesting thogayal recipe…..
Hi, you are so right about the Andhra itch to prepare chutneys – and such yummy ones too! One of my ‘lunchgroup’ friends in office is an Andhrite and we had such yummy treats of different thogayals while her parents were visiting her last month! I shall definite try this one!
Hi Latha, hope your mom is feeling better!
i hope your ma is better now.. i had been wondering where you had disappeared.. its good to have you back:D
mandira
Hey Lathamma..
Glad to see u back 🙂 But also saddened at the news of your mother’s health. Being able to do service to one’s parents is a blessing and u seem to be getting blessed again and again! But hopefully both your father and mother are doing better now. The patchadi luks so appetising 🙂
excellent blog
Hi Lakshmi great to hear that your mom is doing better! Wishing her the best!
Good to see you all here!
Yaay!
Sorry to hear about your mom, hope things are ok now.
And welcome back!
i think this is the best blog
Latha mami, I really hope your mother is doing good now. Vendhaya keerai thuvaiyal super. Naan idhu varaikkum idhu try pannadhe illa. Will try it out soon and let you know.