Beetroot Palya

BEETROOT PALYA

This is a Karnataka Dish. Most suitable for rice and chappathi's. When I was looking out for a recipe with beets for chappathi I found this recipe in one of the website. This came out realy awesome and I have just added the same recipe that I found in the site.
Ingredients:Beetroot - 3
Onion - 1
Water - 1 - 2 cups
salt to taste
tamarind juice - 3 - 4 tsbp
Seasoning:
oil - 1 tsp
mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
red chillie - 1
channa dal - 2 tbsp
turmeric - 1/2 tsp

For powder:
coriander seeds - 2tbsp
cumin seeds - 2 tsp
red chillies - 4
pepper - 4 - 6
fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp
urad dal - 2tsp
channa dal - 2 tsp
cinamon - 1"
cloves - 2
hing - 2 pinches

To grind:
coconut - 1/4 cup
poppy seeds (khus khus) - 1 tbsp
channa dal - 1 tbsp
corriander leaves - a handful
curry leaves - 10 - 12
garlic - 1 pod
Method:
- peel and chop beetroot into small cubes
- boil that in water until its soft
- chop onion finely
- dry roast the ingredients to make powder each seperately.
- grind them into a smooth powder
- grind the ingredients to grind into a fine paste and leave it aside
- in a pan add oil
- then when the oil is hot add the mustard seeds, red chillie, channa dal and turmeric.
- to this add the cooked beetroot.
- add the powder and the finely ground paste
- add the salt and add the tamarind water and leave it to simmer and until it forms to a thick consistancy.