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Surti undhiyu recipe | Green undhiyu | traditional Gujarati undhiyu |undhiyu and puri recipe

Author Nehas Cook Book
3.67 from 3 votes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Course Dal / Curry, Main Course
Cuisine Indian
Servings 10 people

Ingredients
 

For methi muthiya

  • 2 cup methi leaves
  • ½ cup gram flour
  • ½ cup 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 green Masala

  • 60 grmor ½ cup coconut pieces
  • ¼ cup peanuts
  • 2 tbsp sesame seeds
  • 5-6 spicy green chilli
  • 1 inch ginger
  • 100 grm green garlic - white part
  • 1 cup coriander leaves
  • ¼ tsp turmeric powder
  • ½ tsp red chilli powder
  • 1 tbsp coriander powder
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • Salt to taste
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 tbsp oil

For surti undhiyu

  • 250 grm surti papadi
  • 100 grm or ¾ cup green pigeon peas - tuvar
  • 100 grm or ¾ cup green peas
  • 100 grm sweet potato pieces
  • 100 grm purple yum - kand pieces
  • 8 small size potatoes
  • 7-8 small size brinjals
  • 1 raw banana
  • Undhiyu masala paste
  • ¾ cup oil
  • 1 tbsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tbsp carom seeds
  • ½ tsp hing
  • 4 dry red chilli
  • Methi muthiya
  • 1 cup water or as required
  • Garnish with green part of green garlic and coriander leaves

For wheat poori

  • 1.5 cup wheat flour
  • 1 tbsp fine rava - optional
  • ½ tsp sugar
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbsp oil
  • ¾ cup water or as required
  • Oil for frying

Instructions

Making Muthia:

  • Soak methi leaves in salt water for 5-7 minutes. remove water and chopped methi leaves.
  • In a mixing bowl, add wheat flour, besan, methi leaves, spices (turmeric, red chili powder), salt, sugar, baking soda, ginger paste, green chilies, oil, and lemon juice. Mix well.
  • Now add little water at a time and knead into a smooth and soft dough. Don’t make it too weak 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 Undhiyu Masala

  • In a mixture jar, add coconut pieces, peanuts, sesame seeds, salt, green chili, ginger, the white part of green garlic, and coriander leaves. Grind into a coarse mixture.
  • Take out the paste into a mixing bowl; add turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder, garam masala, salt, sugar, lemon juice, and oil. Mix well.
  • Masala is ready.

Making surti Undhiyu

  • Make a cross ‘+’ sign at the upper part of the baby eggplant and raw banana. Stuff the center with prepared masala.
  • Fry purple yam (kand) and sweet potatoes on medium flame. also, fry small potato pieces on medium flame. take out fried vegetables into a bowl.
  • Now add masala to fried vegetables and coat with it. keep it aside.
  • Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds, ajwain, thing, and dry red chili. Sauté it.
  • Add surti papadi, tuvar dana and green peas. Add ½ cup water and mix well.
  • Cover and cook vegetables till it slightly cooked and become soft.
  • Add remaining undhiya masala in it. Mix well and make 1 st layer of undhiya.
  • For the second layer, add masala-coated fried veggies to the papadi layer.
  • For the third layer Add stuffed brinjals and raw banana to the surface of the second layer
  • Now arrange muthiya on it.
  • Add ½ cup water to the sides of the pan and cover and cook undhiyu on low flame for 15-20 minutes.
  • Garnish with the green part of garlic and coriander leaves and serve undhiyu with puri and jalebi.

Making wheat poori

  • In a mixing bowl, add wheat flour, semolina (coarse rava), sugar, salt, and oil.
  • Now add water gradually and make a tight and smooth dough.
  • Cover and rest the dough for 15 minutes.
  • Then knead the dough again and smooth it.
  • Take a small portion of dough and roll it into small size and medium thick puri.
  • Fry pooris on medium-high flame.
  • Serve poori with surti undhiyu.

Notes

For surti undhiyu
  • Grind masala into a coarse mixture.
  • To remove the bitterness of methi, add salt to methi leaves and keep it aside for 10 minutes.
  • fry muthiya on medium flame.
  • fry kand and sweet potatoes on medium flame till they become crispy from the outside.
  • cover and cook vegetables and muthiya on low flame so that they will absorb all flavors from the masala.
for poori
  • knead the tight and smooth dough for poori.
  • fry poori on high-medium flame.