The perfect summer curry - Sindhi Kadhi

The perfect summer curry - Sindhi Kadhi

Yoghurt and gram flour, cooked with vegetables makes it the perfect Indian summer dish

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Cuisine:Indian
Cook time:1h:30m
Prep time:2h:15m
Servings:4

Ingredients

1 1/2 tbsp refined oil

3 tbsp gram flour (besan)

1 tsp fenugreek (methi) seeds

1.5 tsp turmeric (haldi) powder 

3 l water

2 potatoes 

500 gms tomatoes 

1 drumstick (optional)

1 long or 2 small pieces of lotus stem 

1 big or 2 small cauliflower 

200 gms colocasia (arbi)

200 gms okra (bhendi)

Salt to taste

3 lemon-sized balls of tamarind (imli) soaked in 1 cup of water for 2 hours 

Oil for frying 

1 1/2 tsp mustard (sarson) seeds

20-25 curry leaves (kari patta) 

1 1/2 tsp cumin (jeera) 

2 tsp red chilli powder 

2 tbsp coriander leaves (dhania patti), chopped 

 

Method

1. Add refined oil in a deep vessel. Once hot, shallow fry gram flour until golden brown. Do this on a very low flame for about 15 minutes. Add the fenugreek seeds just as it starts to change change colour

2. Once it turns goden brown, add turmeric powder and after a few seconds add all the water to it.

3. With the water add cubed potatoes as they take longest to cook; let it all come to a boil. Then reduce the flame to medium.

4. Purée the tomatoes and add to the vessel. Let the kadhi simmer away on a low flame for an hour.

5. In the meanwhile, heat water in another small pot. Chop drumsticks into three-inch pieces and lotus stem into one-inch piecess. Parboil these and keep them aside. Also, in a separate pan, heat oil for frying after parboiling.

6. Deep fry cauliflower florets, colocasia and okra till golden brown. While frying add/drizzle some salt to the vegetables.

7. After the kadhi has simmered for an hour, add parboiled lotus steam and drum sticks to it. After another 10 minutes add the fried cauliflower, colocasia and okra together.

8. Now strain the thick tamarind water, which was soaked for two hours.

9. Add this to the kadhi and simmer it for another 10 minutes.

For Tempering:

Heat oil in a tempering or small frying pan.

To the hot oil, add mustard seeds, curry leaves, cumin seeds and red chilli powder. Add this tempering to the kadhi.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with peas pulao or steamed rice.

Chef Saransh Goila
Chef Saransh Goila
Chef Saransh Goila
He is the founder of the popular Mumbai, India-based restaurant called Goila Butter Chicken and author of the food travelogue 'India on my platter'

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