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Gujarati Kadhi

Gujarati Kadhi Recipe- Sweet ,sour and mildly spicy gram flour and buttermilk curry

Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Course: kadhi, Main Course
Cuisine: Gujarati Cuisine
Keyword: dahi ki kadhi, Gujarati kadhi recipe
Servings: 5 person
Author: Anjana Chaturvedi

Ingredients

  • 1.5 cup Sour curd check notes
  • 5 tbsp Gram flour / Besan
  • 1.5 tsp Ginger / Adrak grated
  • 4 Green chili/hari mirch chopped
  • 1/4 cup Fresh Coriander / Cilantro / Hara Dhaniya
  • Pinch Turmeric Powder / Haldi Powder optional
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 4 tbsp Sugar *

Tempering/ Tadka

  • 2 tbsp Clarified Butter / Desi Ghee
  • 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
  • 1/2 tsp Fenugreek Seeds / Methidana
  • 1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds / Rai *
  • 2 Cloves / Lavang
  • 1/2 inch Cinnamon /daalchini
  • 4 Green Cardamom / Hari Elaichi
  • 1/3 tsp Asafoetida / Hing powder
  • 4 Dried Red Chilli, Whole
  • 12 Curry Leaves
  • 8 kokum pieces

Instructions

  • Take sour curd ,gram flour and 1/2 cup water in a bowl and mix well with a whisk or hand blender to remove any lumps .add about 750 ml water in it and mix well. Now the mixture is ready to make kadhi.
  • If using butter milk then less water should be used to make batter.
  • In a broad and deep cooking pan heat ghee and add all the tempering ingredients -Cumin seeds, Fenugreek Seeds and mustard seeds, and let it crackle on low flame.
  • when seeds start crackling add cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, asafoetida, slit green chilies and whole red chilies ,sauté and now pour the prepared buttermilk mixture in the pan.
  • Add salt ,sugar, chopped ginger , kokum and curry leaves in the kadhi and simmer it for 15-20 minutes. keep stirring and let it boil on medium heat. can add some more water if needed.
  • Add chopped green coriander and 1.5 t.s lemon juice and serve hot.

  • Serving suggestions- Serve with khichdi,pulao,daal rice or roti.

Notes

NOTE-
  • Buttermilk- Take 1.5 cup sour curd and  add 800 ml water (approx 3 cups)to make buttermilk.
  • if curd is not  sour then add 1 t.s extra lemon juice in kadi.
  • Traditionally turmeric is not added in this curry, but you can add if you wish.
  • You can adjust the quantity of sugar according to your preference - you can add 1.5 tsp to 3 tbsp sugar as per your taste.
  • If the buttermilk or yogurt is not sour enough then add few kokum pieces while boiling the kadhi or add lemon juice before serving.