Kadhi Pakoda

Here's a recipe made out of Besan and Curd which can be served hot with rice.

A very delicious dish....

Ingredients:

2 cup Chana daal (Bengal gram daal)

1/2 Glass thick curd 

1 big onion - sliced

4-5 green chillies

Green coriander leaves - finely chopped

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

Few Curry leaves

1/2 tsp Black Pepper powder

3-4 dry Red chillies

1/4 tsp Jeera (Cumin) powder

1/2 tsp Garam masala powder

1/4 tsp Methi (Fenugreek) seeds 

1/4 tsp Mustard seeds

Salt to taste 

Oil for deep fry and for seasoning Kadhi

Procedure:

1. Soak Chana daal in water for atleast 4-5 hours before you start cooking.

2. Take out 1/4 of chana daal and make a fine paste in the mixer. Keep the paste aside.

3. Take the remaining chana daal and put it the mixer. Add Jeera powder, black pepper powder, 3 green chillies, salt, turmeric powder and garam masala powder.

Grind them all to a thick paste. But make sure it does not become thin fine paste keep it little granular.

4. Take out the mixture in a bowl and add chopped & little coriander leaves onion to it.

5. Mix them well. Heat some oil for deep frying the pakoras in a pan.

6. Make small ball out of the mixture and put them into the heated oil and fry them until golden brown on the medium flame.

7. Once all the pakoras are ready, heat 1 tbl spn oil in another deep pan for seasoning the Kadhi.

8. Add Methi seeds, mustard seeds, 3 red chillies, vertically sliced 2 green chillies, turmeric powder, salt and Curry leaves one by one to the pan. Add little bit of sliced onion and fry until it turns transparent.

9. Now add 1 full glass of water in the pan. 

10. Mix the fine paste of chana daal which was kept aside, into the same pan.

11. Keep stirring. Add one more glass of water and cook for 4-5 mins.

12. Then add the curd in the pan and mix well. Cook for 3-4 mins again.

13. Once the Kadhi is boiled properly, add the Pakoras in the Kadhi and boil fr another 2 mins.

Kadhi pakora is now ready to be served.. Garnish it with coriander leaves..

Kadhi Pakora