Pakoda Kadi Recipe / Besan Pakoda kadhi - Gram flour and yogurt curry recipe

Besan pakoda kadhi is and easy and tasty dish made up of gram flour and yogurt. Kadhi and white rice is one of the best combination. 

For Pakode 

 1 cup gram flour /besan

 ½ teaspoon turmeric powder

 1 teaspoon chilli powder

 Salt as required

 water as required

For Kadi

 1 cup yogurt, preferably sour

 1 teaspoon Fenugreek / methi seeds

 ½ teaspoon turmeric powder

 1 teaspoon chilli powder

 1 red chilli broken into pieces

 curry leaves 1 spring 

 Asafoetida / hing  A pich

 salt to taste

 Oil

For seasoning

 1 teaspoon cumin seeds

 Ghee 2 tsp

Prepare Pakode

Mix gram flour, salt, turmeric powder and chilli powder in a bowl with little water. Mix it well and add water to make it to a thick paste, which requires for making pakode.

Heat kadai with oil (say 6 table spoon) and pour spoonful of batter one by one to the hot oil. Fry until turn into nice and crispy golden brown in color and drain on oil absorbent paper and leave to cool.

Prepare Kadi

Take a bowl with the yogurt and add 1 tbsp of gram flour and mix well. You can mix it using a blender to get a smooth paste. Add 1 cup of water, salt, red chilli powder and turmeric powder and mix well.

Heat 1 tsp oil in a kadai and add methi seeds, broken red chilli and curry leaves. Saute for few seconds until methi seeds turn to light brown color. 

Add the prepared yogurt mixture to this and stir continuously. If the mix is getting thick add some more water. Boil it for 3 minutes and stir in between. Add a pinch of hing to kadi. Switch off the flame and add the prepared pakodas and keep it covered for 2 minutes.

The kadi becomes thick after you add the pakodas, so make sure to keep a watery consistency before adding pakodas.

For seasoning

Heat a small kadai with ghee and add the cumin seeds to it. Once the cumin seeds splutter add this mix to the kadi and serve hot with rice.

Tips:-

This curry must be served immediately else it will become very thick and mushy.

If you are not serving kadi immediately then do not add the pakodas to the curry. Add pakodas only at the time of serving. Keep 4-5 pakodas in the serving bowl and add the curry on top of that.