This colorful and yummy dish made with beets and yogurt is yet another part of the delicious sadya .This dish is also very healthy and a smart way to get picky kids to eat beets, which is a rich and nutritious vegetable. It needs very few ingredients and is very easy to make.
Beetroot kichadi or Grated beets in yogurt gravy
A traditional and delicious dish made with grated beets and yogurt usually made on festivals and goes well with rice and traditional sadya.
Make sure to cool the cooked beetroot before adding the yogurt to avoid curdling.
Ingredients
- 2 beets grated
- 3 green chillies finely cut
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- 5 cups beaten yogurt
- salt to taste
Directions
- Take a deep bottomed pan and heat about 3-4 tsp oil.
- Splutter mustard seeds and add the grated beets and green chillies.
- Sautée for a while.
- Let it cook for a few minutes in the steam by closing the lid and reducing the flame .
- When it is half-cooked , add salt and curry leaves.
- Fry for 2 more minutes and switch off flame and wait for the beets to cool.
- Meanwhile beat the yogurt to a smooth fluid form.
- Add a little water to adjust consistency.
- Add the cooked and cooled beets to the yogurt and mix it well.
- Enjoy this dish with rice or rotis (wheat bread).
14 Comments
Megala
May 15, 2017 at 12:01 pmInteresting recipe! Looks beautiful !!
InspiresN
May 15, 2017 at 12:24 pmThank you Megala, the color makes it look pretty:)
savvysouthindian
May 15, 2017 at 5:35 pmLooks delicious! Beautiful color!
InspiresN
May 15, 2017 at 7:05 pmThank you so much Latha!
Liz | Bubble Tea For Dinner
May 15, 2017 at 10:57 pmSuch a beautiful colour! You’re sure kids will like it? OK I will totally try this on mine, mwahaha (and if they don’t like it, I’ll eat it all, it looks like it would make very good sandwiches)
InspiresN
May 16, 2017 at 11:11 amMy kids love it but they are not little any more 🙂 and they like beets anyway so maybe I assumed all kids will like ..yes it would go well with a sandwich !Thank you Liz!
Lavs Raj
May 16, 2017 at 2:31 amMy kids don’t like beetroot though I’m a big fan.. i will give this a try… may be they’ll like this.. thanks for sharing!! 😀
InspiresN
May 16, 2017 at 11:12 amHope they’ll like it 🙂 Thank you !
chukkiskitchen
May 17, 2017 at 10:44 amBeetroot is amazing for health. i am gonna make this some day 🙂
InspiresN
May 17, 2017 at 11:08 amYes it is very healthy and sure do give it a try and see how you like it !
chukkiskitchen
May 18, 2017 at 1:33 amYes. Will have to get beetroot in the weekly grocery
InspiresN
May 18, 2017 at 8:45 am🙂
Sumith
May 26, 2017 at 12:03 amLoves it’s colour. Very vibrant and sounds delicious!
InspiresN
May 26, 2017 at 12:08 pmYes that’s right the color is quite vibrant.It also tastes yum! Thank you!