If any one of my friends were to ask me, which is the famous Sindhi food ? It is Sindhi Kadhi chawal. Kadhi Chaawar or Sindhi Curry is one of the famous sindhi dishes. This curry is probably the most celebrated signature dish from our kitchen.
Plain rice with Sindhi Kadhi and tuk combination is a regular lunch at Sindhi home on a weekend.Tuk is simple fried potatoes or colocasia. Other easy sindhi recipes that you can make include Dal pakwan, Kali mirch koki, Onion koki , Seyun patata, bhuga chawar,sindhi papad, sindhi chauthe, sindhi besani ,sindhi sai bhaji sindhi mitho lolo , Sindhi onion pickle ,Sindhi kutti, sindhi varo and do not forget Khorak.
While Punjabis make besan ki kadhi recipe with yogurt and pakode (fritters), this is an all veggie affair. Unlike besan kadhi, Sindhi Kadhi is vegan as mostly oil is used in tempering. Punjabi kadhi can be made when you have lots of yogurt left over and have little veggies at home. It is basically, making onion fritters and serving them in a yogurt sauce. Recipe for sindhi kadhi helps you use all the left over raw veggies in refrigerator. We make it with loads of veggies along in a chickpea flour base. It is sour and tangy due to addition of tamarind paste/ imli pulp. Some people also make Sindhi kadhi with tomatoes if they cannot have tamarind due to health reasons.
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Is Sindhi kadhi healthy?
This curry is vegan and about making most of what you have.Simple dish with addition of about any vegetable you have at home. You need only a handful but everything comes together in a perfect unison. Thus, making it full of nutrition. You can cook it easily in a deep sauce pan. It is also full of proteins due to gram flour. Beans, eggplants, potatoes, peas, carrots moringa. Slightly fry okra and cluster beans and then add it. Tastes divine. You can also make it gluten-free by avoiding heeng or asafoetida in tempering.
This recipe is strikingly similar to sambhar of southern India. Imagine two similar dishes prepared 1000s of kms apart. Probably, the only difference being, we add minimal spices to the curry. You can serve it to a large gatherings as much as for small lunches. We also serve it especially during weddings as one of the meals. You will never go wrong serving this gravy dish at luncheons or dinners.
Serve it hot with rice, aloo tuk,arbi tuk papad, khichiya and motichur laddu or sweet boondi.
Ingredients for the Sindhi besan kadhi:
Clockwise: Okra/bhindi, cluster beans/gwar, chickpea powder/besan, cumin and mustard seeds, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, curry leaves, oil, tamarind paste, carrots, peas, potatoes, ginger, green chillies, asafoetida/heeng, salt.
How to make Sindhi Cury ?
- Heat oil in a deep sauce pan.
2. Add chickpea flour/ besan to it.
3. Mix well with a spatula. Cook until it turns golden brown / light brown. Note: The color will darken after we add tamarind paste to it.
4. Add turmeric and red chili powder
5. Add water and let it come to a boil.
6. Cut the potatoes into halves and add it to the pot.
7. Now, add the remaining vegetables like carrots and peas. Mix well
8. Add the tamarind pulp to it and stir well.
9. In another pan, heat oil and sauté the okra.
10. Add the cluster beans to it once okra is no longer slimy.
11. Now, add the cooked okra and cluster beans to the kadhi. Mix well.
12. In a pan, heat oil and temper some cumin seeds, mustard seeds. You may also add a teaspoon of methi dana/ fenugreek seeds. Once they crackle, add ginger, chilly & curry leaves to it. Switch it off and add heeng/asafoetida.Tip: Omit heeng optionally , if serving a gluten-free meal.
13. Add the tempering to pot. Stir and let it simmer for few minutes.
Serve Sindhi kadhi with tuk and boondi, rice and papad.
How to make sindhi kadhi (video)?
Check out our sindhi kadhi recipe video on youtube .
Serve it love. It is a perfect wholesome meal before a good nap 🙂
Serving suggestion
Serve it with sweet boondi, aloo tuk and Kachalu ja Tuk as sides along with plain steamed rice or jeera rice. I prefer serving Basmati rice with it as it has a wonderful aroma to it.
What are the different types of kadhi recipes?
You can also make Sindhi tomato curry or Sindhi karhi with tomatoes. We use lentils instead of chickpea flour in another version. Sindhi kadhi with toor dal is good way to feed kids who cannot digest besan easily. Another variation is the Bhatia Kadhi where we make above recipe of Sindhi kadi with curd addition. Besides that are Dahi ki kadhi and gatte. Below is the list of different sindhi curry recipes.
FAQs
Sindhi food is a collection of recipes that are made by the people with roots to the Sindh region. Most Sindhi Hindus also bore the brunt of partition and were displaced to all corners of the world.
what to serve with kadhi chawal ?
Traditionally, Arbi tuk or Aloo tuk is served with kadhi chawal and boondi ladoo or sweet boondi
Storage
Store it in refrigerator for 2-4 days.
authentic sindhi kadhi recipe | Sindhi Kadhi Chawal recipe
Equipment
- deep sauce pan
Ingredients
- ½ cup chickpea flour / garbanzo flour / gram flour
- ¼ cup tamarind puree
- ¼ cup oil for tempering
vegetables
- 2 potatoes
- 100 gm okra
- 100 gm cluster beans
- 1 carrot
- ¼ cup peas
Spices for tempering:
- 1 tablespoon cumin seeds
- 1 tablespoon ginger
- 1 tablespoon green chilli
- 1 stalk curry leaves
- 1-2 red chilli
- ½ tbsp. fenugreek seeds optional
- ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
- ½ tablespoon red chili powder
- salt as per taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a deep sauce pan.
- Add chickpea flour/ besan to it.
- Mix well with a spatula. Cook until it is toasted and is light brown in color.
- Add turmeric, red chilly powder to it and mix well.
- Now, add water and salt. Let it come to a boil.
- Cut the potatoes into halves and add it to the pot.
- Now, add the remaining vegetables like carrots and peas. Mix well.
- Add the tamarind paste to it and stir well.
- In another pan, heat oil and sauté the okra.
- Add the cluster beans to it once okra is no longer slimy.
- Now, add the cooked okra and cluster beans to it. Mix well.
- In a pan, heat oil and temper some cumin seeds, mustard seeds. Once they crackle, add ginger, green chilly, curry leaves to it. Switch it off and add heeng/asafoetida. You may omit heeng optionally , if serving a gluten-free meal.
Abi says
If i am not mistaken Besan is flour made from Bengal Gram/Channa Daal and not Chickpeas/Kabuli Cholay.
bhavana bhatia says
hi Abi,
Thanks for your query.
There are different varieties of Chickpeas.. one of them is kabula chana, bengal gram is also a variety of chickpeas, hence we refer to besan as chickpea flour.
Thanks