PROCESS:
-Take dry ginger and remove its skin and cut into small pieces.
-Soak tamarind in little water(4tbspn water)for 15min or microwave for 30sec.
-Take a pan,add oil in it.Once oil is warm add uraddaal,chana daal.
-Once they start changing color add mustard seeds,red chilli and curry leaves.
-Fry them well.Now add hing and switch off the flame.
-Remove these ingredients from oil and once they are cool add them to grinder/blender.
-To this add grated jaggery,salt to taste,turmeric,tamarind,ginger pieces and grind them to paste.(If needed - then add very little water.)
-Once it is done add the oil in which you fried the ingredients to this paste and grind once.So that oil mixes with the paste very well.
-Now you can take it into a bowl.
This yummy allam pachadi also called chinatapandu pachadi goes well with idly or dosa or pesarattu.It also tastes good when served with warm rice and ghee.