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Monday, February 25, 2013

Gujarati Kadhi (कढी)

Kadhi is nothing but gram flour mixed boiled and simmered buttermilk with aromatic spices tempered in oil or ghee. This is very simple and easy to make dish. Main ingredient for this dish is yougurt or thick buttermilk and gram flour. There are two main variation of this dish one with salt & sugar and one with only salt.  I like both variation but in summer I like to eat sweet kadhi with plain rice, bhindi fry and moong daal fry.

Ingredients:-
(1). 4 cup yougurt
(2). 2 tablespoon gram flour or chickpea flour
(3). salt to taste
(4). 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
(5). 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
(6). pinch of asafoetida
(7). 3 clove piece
(8). 2 small cinamon sticks
(9). 3 whole black pepper
(10). 2 dry red chili
(11). 2 teaspoon chopped ginger
(12). 2 tablespoon chopped coriander
(13). 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
(14). 7-8 leaves of curry leaves
(15). handful of chopped coriander leaves
(16). 1 tablespoon oil
(17) 2 cup water

Recipe:-
In deep vessle or bowl mix yougurt, water and salt and make buttermilk.  Now in small bowl take gram and add some water and mix until there are no lumps, if some reason if you are not able to remove lumps in besan mix, use strainer to remove lumps. Now add this besan into buttermilk and stir it well.

Start the stove and put the Kadhi mixture to boil on medium flame.  While buttermilk is cooking, on different stove for tempering heat oil and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds. Once seeds started cracking or spluttering switch off the stove and add asafoetida, clove, cinamon sticks, black peppers, dry red chilis ,sesame seeds, chopped ginger and curry leaves into it. All these spices will bring very nice and strong aroma. Add this spiced flovored oil into kadhi mixture. Cook/Simmer kadhi on medium flame for about 5-7  minutes. Switch of stove. Garnish with coriander leaves.

This is optional step. If you like sweet and sour taste like I do add 2-3 teaspoon of sugar into hot kadhi and mix it well.

Serve hot with pulav or biryani. I love to eat kadhi with khichdi and mango pickle, I prefer sweet kadhi with khicdi.

Tip:-  Some people like turmeric in kadhi, so add half teaspoon turmeric while making buttermilk. This will make kadhi yellowish in color. For tempering instead of oil you can use ghee too. It will make kadhi more creamy and rich in taste.

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