Undhiyu Recipe

Undhiyu

By Joy.

Ingredients:

6 Chillies

2 spoons ginger paste

2 spoons garlic paste

1tsp rock salt

1tsp mustard seeds

1tsp ajwain seeds

Half cup oil. Keep 1 cup oil on the side to be used when the vegetables are cooking.

For the filling:

2 spoons Garam Masala

2 spoons Dhanajeera powdered

 Half cup cooking oil.

1 and 1/2 cups besan little coarse.

1 or 2 spoons red chilli powder

2 spoons turmeric powder

Salt as per the mixture.

Vegetables:

312 gms. Ratalu (violet yam) find in Indian groceries.

350 gms. Ravaiya( baby brinjals) find in Indian groceries.

170 gms. Surati Papadi( Indian flat beans) find in Indian groceries.

4 medium sized potatoes chopped or 100 gms baby potatoes( whole)

100 gms. Sweet potatoes chopped( optional)

Method:

Take a bowl, put the besan. Add salt, the garam masala, Dhanajeera, red chilli powder, turmeric, and oil and mix it all nicely. Fill this mixture in the precut ravaiyas("+" shape). Not all the filling is used. Then take a cooking pot, a little taller,with a lid. Put it on the stove add half cup oil to it. Then add mustard seeds to it, as they start to crack, Add ajwain seeds and rock salt. Remove the pot from the stove. Then add the green chillies, Garlic paste, ginger paste to this heated oil and stir. Put the pot on the stove on low heat. Add the Surti Papdi, sprinkle some filling on top of it. Then add the ravaiyas gently. Pour two or three spoon oil. Add the chopped potatoes and sprinkle some filling on top. Add the ratalu, and Sweet potatoes on top. Sprinkle water over the vegetables in the pot, do not pour. If the filling is there put it on top of the potatoes, and close the lid. Let it cook for 3 to 4 minutes, and some oil to the mixture. Close the lid. Let the vegetables cook. Keep checking every few minutes; if needed, sprinkle water. Cook on low heat. You should know the vegetables are cooked, by the smell, and the texture. Undhiyu is outdoor cooking, originally, cooked in clay pots over a earthen stove using coal fuel.