Kardai Chi Bhaji – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take kardai and wash it really well.
• Soak tur dal for 2 hours.
• Add kardai into a pressure cooker. Add one glass of water.
• Add soaked tur dal, green chili, and raw peanuts.
• Mix well and close the lid. Cook on medium heat until 2 whistles.
• Heat oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds and let them sizzle up.
• Add garlic cloves and green chili. Fry until garlic turns light golden in color.
• Add red chili powder. You can avoid red chili powder if you don’t like it.
• Add turmeric powder and mix well.
• Add cooked kardai in it. Mix well and lower down the heat.
• Add thick buttermilk. Lower down the gas while adding buttermilk.
• Add besan and salt to taste. Mix everything well together.
• Cook the sabzi on medium heat for about 7-8 minutes until the rawness of besan vanishes.
• Kardai sabzi is already.
• This sabzi should have medium consistency, neither too thick nor too thin.
• You can make this sabzi thicker by adding more besan to it.
• This sabzi goes well with hot bajri or jawar bhakari with lots of ghee.
• You can also have this with rice. Also, you can make palak sabzi using this method.