Pachodi and Panak On the Occasion of RamNavmi Filed under ( Amchikele Randap/Konkani food, Coolers and Juices, Festivals, Salads )

Did all ya enjoy ur Long weekend??? We did… enjoyed a lot… but now m suffering from severe throat pain… nd head ache… it feels like someone has kept kgs of weight on my head ….. LSigh!!!! Leaving all those things apart let me come to today’s post… I know M pretty late in posting this… Nd yeh last nyt when I was chatting with my blogger fren Nithya she too told me the same thing its pretty late for this yr nd too early for next yr… Ne ways its better late than never A’int it????

As I grew up in temple premises I know what they serve on which occasion :P. On A note we have our own family temple and that’s y I know… :D

I remember when they used to serve Prasad we used to be the last ones to go there and receive it and that’s becoz we knew tht it wud be remaining at home :D…. but when it comes to Panak nd Pachodi we wud be the first ones to run as we knew there wudn’t be ne thing remaining at home :D… Pachodi was always served very lil nd it wud be a tbsp….. but I wud always call them back nd tell “Makka He Swalp Chada Jai”…. :D (I.e. I need this one a bit more)…. Awwww those were the days….

Amma was here for almost a month’s time so I was craving for Panak nd asked her to make this for me… As soon as she prepared it Both of us(DH nd I) drank glasses of Panak…. Nd enjoyed it to the Core…

Here is the recipe of the soothing panak

4 tbsp grated Jaggery

2 glasses of water

Juice of half lime

1” dry ginger (shoonti)

7 -8 peppercorns

1 cardamom

Method:

Grind dry ginger, pepper corns and cardamom into a fine powder.

Mix this powder along with water and jaggery , mix until jaggery dissolves.

P.S – U can make the powder in a large qtty and make panak when u feel like quenching ur thirst.

U can use the same powder as kasahay…. i.e. u must take a tbsp of this powder and add a glass of water and reduce it to half glass and strain it Add hot milk (1/2cup) and drink it hot… This is good for Cough nd cold.

Now for the Pachodi

We need

Cucumber Finely chopped – 1 cup

Raw Mango finely chopped – ½ cup (make sure mango is not too sour)

Coconut -1/2 cup

Green chilly finely chopped -1

Ginger finely chopped -1”

Salt to taste

Method :

Grind coconut, green chilly into a fine paste. Now Add cucumber,mango, ginger and salt in a bowl toss it and add the paste In it.

Mix well.Pachodi is ready to serve.

I m Sure u All will Love to try both these recipes.

Tastes Yum Yum when u add lozza love in it.

Till then,

Take care!!