The word pachi in Telugu means raw or the colour green and this Rayalaseema dish is partly raw and absolutely delicious. Pachi pulusu is an unheated version of the hot tamarind soup pulusu. It is raw tamarind soup that is eaten with steamed rice. To cook this, people barely use a stove. The dish when served is not even fuming hot when served. Summers in Rayalaseema and Telangana can be an ordeal, so this dish is usually cooked then, as it’s refreshing and cool. Ingredients like tamarind make it sour, but it is combined with jaggery giving it a sweet and sour taste. The curry leaves and coriander in this Rayalaseema food give it freshness, and roasted chillies add much-needed spice.
Ingredients
Groundnuts -1/2 cup
Tamarind piece – large lemon-sized
Water -4 cups
Onions – 1 (chopped)
Turmeric powder – Half teaspoon
Salt – As per taste
Green Chillies – 5
Oil – 2 tablespoons
Mustard seeds – 1 tablespoon
Urad dal – 1 tablespoon
Cumin seeds – 1 teaspoon
Coriander leaves – 1 bunch
Jagir – 1 tablespoon
Curry leaves – Few
Preparation
Take tamarind juice from the tamarind.
Add green chillies, turmeric powder, salt and jagir blend mixer jar.
Take a bowl. Add this to the raw tamarind mix bowl.
Take a pan to heat and add oil to a pan to the fire and put the oil… Add mustard seeds, urad dal and cumin seeds along with curry leaves.
Wait till they pop add coriander leaves and remove them from the flame. Mix well and the delicious raw tamarind rasam is now ready to serve.
Serve with hot rice and enjoy the pachipulusu