This is a quick and easy recipe of kadhi and takes about 15 minutes to prepare. Amaranth flour is added here instead of besan (gram flour), which we use in regular kadhis.
Preparation Time: 03 M
Cooking Time: 12 M
Total Time: 15 M
Required Ingredients :
- 1 cup full-fat fresh curd
- 3 tablespoons amaranth flour (rajgira atta)
- ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 to 1.5 teaspoons ginger-green chilli paste or ½ inch ginger + 1 to 2 green chillies crushed in a mortar-pestle.
- ½ cup water
- ¼ to ½ teaspoon sugar, or add as required
- 2 tablespoons Pure Mustard Oil.
- 1 to 2 tablespoons chopped coriander leaves for garnish
- Rock salt (edible and food grade) as required
Method of Cooking
- Take 1 cup of fresh curd in a mixing bowl. Whisk it till smooth.
- Then add 3 tablespoons of rajgira atta or amaranth flour. If you don’t have amaranth flour, then you can also add buckwheat flour (kuttu ka atta), arrowroot flour or water chestnut flour (singhare ka atta)
- Mix again very well.
- Then add ½ cup of water.
- Whisk the whole mixture very well. There should be no lumps.
- In a pan, heat 2 tablespoons of Pure Mustard Oil. Add ½ teaspoon cumin seeds and saute them till they are fragrant and change color.
- Then add 1 to 1.5 teaspoons crushed ginger+green chilli paste.
- Stir and saute till the raw aroma of the ginger goes away.
- Lower the heat and then add the curd mixture.
- Season with rock salt (sendha namak) according to taste.
- Stir very well and allow the rajgira kadhi to simmer on a low heat for about 3 to 4 minutes. Do stir on occasion. The kadhi will also thicken. If the kadhi thickens too much, then add a few tablespoons of water and stir again.
Garnish vrat ki kadhi with chopped coriander leaves and serve vrat ki kadhi.