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Kathiyawadi undhiyu recipe | undhiyu recipe | how to make Gujarati undhiyu

Author Nehas Cook Book
4 from 4 votes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course Curry, Main Course
Cuisine Indian
Servings 10 people

Ingredients
 

For methi muthiya

  • 2 cup chopped methi leaves
  • ½ cup gram flour
  • ½ cup coarse wheat flour
  • ¼ tsp turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp red chilli powder
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • ¼ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp ginger paste
  • 1 tsp green chilli paste
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 1-2 tbsp water or as required
  • Oil for deep frying

For pressure cooker

  • 100 grm surti papadi
  • 50 grm desi valor papadi
  • 50 grm green peas
  • 50 grm green pigeon peas - tuvar
  • 50 grm green butter beans - green vaal
  • 50 grm green chana - jinjara4
  • 1.5 cup water
  • Salt to taste
  • 1/8 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp sugar

For kathiyawadi undhiyu

  • 100 grm sweet potato pieces
  • 100 grm purple yum - kand pieces
  • 100 grm suran pieces
  • 100 grm potatoes pieces
  • 100 grm cauliflower florets
  • 50 grm tindora - cut into slits
  • 50 grm guvar
  • 1 raw banana
  • 8-10 small size brinjals - rigan
  • ¾ cup oil
  • 1 tbsp mustard seeds
  • 1 tbsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tsp ajwain
  • ½ tsp hing
  • 4-5 dry red chilli
  • 1 inch cinnemon
  • 2 bay leaf
  • 3-4 cloves
  • 1 tbsp ginger paste
  • 2 tbsp green chilli paste
  • ¼ cup crushed green garlic paste
  • 2 tbsp crushed peanuts
  • 1 cup tomato puree
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tsp turmeric powder
  • 3 tbsp red chilli powder - 2 tbsp kashmiri red chilli + 1 tbsp spicy red chilli
  • 3 tbsp coriander powder
  • 2 cup hot water
  • 2 tbsp tamarind pulp
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp undhiya masala - 1 tbsp garam masala
  • Some coriander leaves

Special tadka

  • 3 tbsp oil
  • 2 tbsp white sesame seeds
  • 10-12 curry leaves
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp kashmiri red chilli powder
  • ½ tsp hing

Instructions

For pressure cooker

  • In a cooker, add surti papadi, valor papadi, green peas, green pigeon peas, green vaal, and green chana.
  • Then add 1.5 cup water, salt, baking soda, and sugar. Mix well.
  • Pressure cook vegetable on a medium flame for 1 whistle.
  • When the pressure cooker cools down, dana and papadi are properly cooked. Keep it aside.

Making Muthia:

  • In a mixing bowl, add wheat flour, besan, chopped methi leaves, spices (turmeric, red chili powder), salt, sugar, baking soda, ginger paste, green chilies, oil, and lemon juice in a bowl. Mix well.
  • Now add little water at a time and knead into a smooth and soft dough. Don’t make it too soft otherwise, it becomes too sticky.
  • Grease your palm with oil and roll muthiya into small oval-shaped dumplings.
  • Fry muthiya on medium flame till it becomes crispy and brown.

Making kathiyawadi Undhiyu

  • Fry purple yam (kand), suran, and sweet potatoes on medium flame. also, fry small potato pieces on medium flame. take out fried vegetables into a wire rack.
  • Now fry cauliflower on medium flame till it is slightly golden brown and crispy.
  • Also, fry tindor and guvar on medium flame till it becomes soft.
  • Lastly, raw banana and brinjal on medium flame till it becomes slightly soft.
  • Now in a pan, add oil, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, ajwain, and hing. Sauté it.
  • Then add dry red chilli, cinnamon, bay leaf, and cloves. Sauté it.
  • Now add ginger paste, green chilli paste, and garlic paste. Sauté it.
  • then add tomato puree and salt. Cook puree till oil separates from its sides.
  • Now lower the flame, and add turmeric powder, red chilli powder, and coriander powder. Mix well and sauté masala till oil separates from its sides.
  • Then add boiled papadi and dana into the gravy and mix well.
  • Then add fried vegetables and mix well.
  • Now add 2 cups of hot water and mix well. Keep the flame medium and cook vegetables into gravy for 3-4 minutes. so it absorbs all flavor from the gravy.
  • Then add tamarind pulp, sugar, and undhiyu masala. mix well.
  • Now add muthiya and 4-5 crushed muthiya into the gravy. mix well.
  • For tadka, in a pan, add oil, sesame seeds, and curry leaves. when sesame seeds splutter switch off the gas and add turmeric powder, thing, and red chilli powder. Mix well.
  • Add tadka into undhiyu and mix well.
  • Garnish with coriander leaves and serve undhiyu with puri and jalebi.

Notes

  • fry muthiya on medium flame.
  • fry sweet potatoes, purple yum (ratalu), and suran on medium flame till it becomes crispy from the outside.
  • add slightly hot water to make gravy (rasa) in undhiyu.
  • at the time of serving add muthiya into undhiya gravy.
  • crushed muthiya gives flavor and texture to undhiya gravy.
  • special tadka gives perfect flavor to undhiya.