Gatte ki kadi...

This is one of my fav. Recipe....The taste is soooooo ...yummmmmm..... I dont have words to describe how delicious it tastes!!! So friends here it is...:)

 

Ingredients:

For the gatte:

1 cup besan

 1 tsp jeera  & ajwain

salt to taste

1 tsp oil

 water to make dough

(Combine the above ingredients & make a smooth dough. The dough should not be too soft and not too hard  It should be like roti dough)

For the kadi:

1 ½ cup thick sour Yoghurt

¾ cup Gram flour (besan)

1 tsp Ginger grated

2 whole Red Chilies

Curry Leaves

½ tsp.each  Mustard seeds / cumin seeds

½  tsp. haldi

1 pinch hing

½ tsp. Coriander leaves finely chopped

Salt

How to make the gatta:

 From the above dough make cylindrical pipe like shapes of 10 cm length and 1.5cm thickness. Add water in a pan & let it boil.Put the cylinders in the boiling water and let it boil for 10-15 minutes. Drainthe water and cool the gattas.

Cut the gattas  into 3to 4 cm pieces. Deep fry the pieces in ghee or oil.Keep aside.

How to make the Kadi:

Blend the curd, besan, ginger, salt & make a fine paste.

In a kadhai heat 2 tsp oil and add the mustard / cumin seeds and allow to splutter. Add curry leaves, red chillies, hing, & haldi.

Sauté for a minute.Add the blended curd & stir continuously . Then add 1cup of water .Let it boil & stir continuously so that it doesn’t stick to the bottom.Simmer for 10-15 minutes .The indication to stop cooking is when the kadhi is boiling.The consistency should be rather light. Add the gattas to the kadi & Let the gattes  soak up more and more water as they sit in the kadi. switch off the flame & garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

 This kadi can be had with plain rice or tandoori roti.