Watch: Recipe for Gujarati undhiyu that's so good...

A medley of vegetables, this gravy is best eaten with steamed rice or unleavened flatbread

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A hotchpotch of vegetables, the Gujarati undhiyu is quite delicious. This vegetarian dish is best eaten with steamed rice or rotis and is quite healthy as well. The name of this dish was derived from the word 'undhu', which when translated, means 'upside down', especially since the dish is traditionally cooked underground using earthen pots or what is natively known as 'maltu'.

Preparation time: 1 hour

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

Indian beans (surti papdi), tomatoes, drumsticks, green banana, tindly, yam, potatoes, baby brinjals, rasa, sweet potato, methi muthia and fenugreek leaves

Method:

Step 1: Mix all the vegetable in rasa and sitr fry it for 10 minutes. Once done, mix it well with your hand and keep it aside.

Guide to making Undhyu by Swades Restaurant

Step 2: In a thick-bottom pan, pour in a little bit of oil and add the carom seeds. Once it starts to splutter, add the tomatoes.

Guide to making Undhyu by Swades Restaurant

Step 3: Once it starts to splutter, add in the tomatoes.

Guide to making Undhyu by Swades Restaurant

Step 4: Next, add salt, sugar, coriander powder, chilli powder, ground Indian beans, peanut powder and grated coconut. Add water to the mix.

Add salt...
sugar...
coriander powder...
chilli powder...
ground Indian beans..
grated coconut...
peanut powder...
Next add water to the mix and stir it well.

Step 5: Once the gravy starts to come to a boil, add the cooked vegetables and stir it for the next 10 minutes.

Time to add the cooked vegetables...
Stir well

Step 6: Add the methi muthia and the chopped fenugreek leaves. Stir is once again and remove it off the flame.

Add the methi muthia...
...chopped fenugreek leaves
Stir well once more and remove it off the flame

Step 7: Serve and enjoy with steamed rice or rotis (unleavened flatbreads).

Serve and enjoy!

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