One of Mama's recipe again, she has always been cooking this and I just love them with plain rice. Thanks to Mama and Papa who took snap. I was so happy she did this and I could send this to RCI - Rajasthan hosted by Padma @ Spicy Andhra





Here goes the recipe in Mama's words:

For the Gatte's

Ingredients

2 cups besan(bengal gram flour)
salt to taste
1 tsp. red chili powder
1 tsp. turmeric powder
1/2 cup oil
curds to bind the dough
a pinch of ajwain (optional)
1/4 tsp jeera

Method

  1. Mix all the dry ingredients.
  2. Add oil and mix till it resembles bread crumbs, if needed add a little oil.
  3. Mix in curds to make a stiff dough.
  4. Knead well and rest for 10 Min's
  5. Take a little dough and roll into a thin cylinder.
  6. Meanwhile keep a pot with water on the stove.
  7. Complete the dough in this manner.
  8. Cut into small pieces about 1/2-3/4 inch.Boil some pieces in the boiling water.
  9. Do not put all the pieces as they may stick.
  10. Boil till they float in water and than take them out.


For the Kadhi or gravy

Ingredients

2 small onions (finely chopped)
1/2 inch ginger
2 green chillies
3 cloves garlic
3 tomatoes
a sprig curry leaves
2 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp red chili powder
a little garam masala and aamchoor
2 tbsp fresh coriander leaves

Method
  1. Heat a little oil and saute the onions till they are pink in color
  2. Add finely minced ginger, garlic and chillies.
  3. Add the dry masalas(coriander,red chilli ,turmeric).
  4. Fry for 2-3 mins and than add grated tomatoes.
  5. Add the curry leaves and fry till the liquid drys .
  6. Than add the boiled ghattas and mix thoroughly.
  7. Than add the water in which the ghattes were boiled.
  8. Add salt to taste as the water may contain salt.
  9. Bring to a boil and than simmer till the ghattes are done.
  10. You can add water to the consistency you want.
  11. Sprinkle garam masala and aamchoor.
  12. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with chappattis or rice


Thanks Mama for packing some for us we enjoyed this curry a lot.

18 comments:

EC said...

Lovely curry

Unknown said...

looks yummy...nice kadi..

ranji said...

lovely dish!!looks so tempting:).great entry!!!

SASHREE said...

wow medhaa,recipe looks delicious...all my credits to ur mama :)

Sunshinemom said...

My fave too, but I just put the gattas in a regular kadhi made with gatte ka paani without the onions. Mouth watering recipe :)

Meera said...

Lovely dish. Convey thanks to your mama. So sweet of her to share her recipe. By the way, i have a surprise for you at my blog.
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Cham said...

This is really very sweet , thank to mama, great looking dish!

Uma said...

delicious entry, Medhaa!

Pravs said...

A friend told me about this curry and i tried it. Tasty curry..nice entry for RCI.

Kalai said...

Awesome entry for RCI! :)

Trupti said...

nice entry medhaa

Medhaa said...

Thank you so much everyone, will let mama know.

Vanamala Hebbar said...

Nice recipe :) i feel it is very lengthy process na!! pic looks good

Suganya said...

Hi Medha...
This is a nice curry... great recipe for RCI....

Unknown said...

Yummy!

Swati Raman Garg said...

delicious looking curry medhaa

FH said...

All in one dish, don't need anything else!:))

vidhas said...

Hi Medhaa, lovely curry. Is Sindhi Kadi is different. Do u hve tha recipe.

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