Ugadi Pachchadi Recipe

Source -The Star

"YUGAADI Pachchadi is the food highlight of the day for Telugus celebrating Yugaadi (Telugu New Year).Made with ingredients like new brown sugar (jaggery), mango, neem flowers, tamarind, salt and chilli, the dish is a sweet-tangy-bitter salad.This dish requires no cooking, just preparation of the ingredients which are then tossed together to create a mix of flavours teasing the taste buds with sweet, sour, spicy, bitter, salty and savoury tastes." 

"According to former Telugu Association of Malaysia past vice-president Nebarthy Ledchumanan, eating the pachchadi is important as it has an inner meaning. The pachchadi is synonymous with the celebration. It has six different ingredients lending six flavours. It symbolises that man should face all aspects of life – that he should embrace all the joys and sadness, trials and tribulations, that life affords, he explained."

Source - The Star

Ingredients: 

Young mango chopped into fine cubes

Neem flowers (if not available, neem leaves can be used)

Fresh tamarind juice

Salt to taste

Fresh chilli, sliced

Brown sugar to taste

Method: 

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and toss to enable flavours to mix.

Source - The Star