Undhiyu
Muthiya
Ingredients
- ½ cup Besan
- ½ cup Wheat flour
- 3 tbsps Oil
- ½ tsp Salt (or to taste)
- ½ tsp Red chili powder
- 2 tsps Sugar
- ¼ tsp Turmeric
- ½ tsp Green chilies (crushed, or to taste)
- 1½ tsp Ginger (crushed)
- 1½ tsp Garlic (crushed)
- 1 cup Green fenugreek (finely chopped)
- Oil (for frying)
Instructions
- Combine oil with the flours to a crumbly texture.
- Mix the remaining ingredients with flour and make a soft dough using water.
- Make about 20 balls and flatten slightly.
- Heat oil on medium high and fry muthiyas until golden brown.
- Set aside.
Masala Mixture
Ingredients
- 1 cup Coconut (grated)
- ½ cup Green coriander (finely chopped)
- 2 tbsps Ground coriander/cumin mix
- 2 tbsps Raw peanuts (crushed)
- 1 tsp Green chilies (crushed, or to taste)
- 2 tsps Garlic (crushed)
- 1 tsp Salt (or to taste )
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- ¼ tsp Turmeric
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice
Instructions
- Mix all the masala ingredients.
- Cut eggplant stems leaving a little intact.
- Make 4 criss cross cuts in each, almost to the stem.
- Make 4 criss cross cuts in each potato, almost to the end.
- Cut the banana into 1 inch thick rounds and make a slit on one side.
- Use some of the mixture to stuff inside the cut eggplants, potatoes and bananas.
- In a pressure cooker, heat oil for tempering on medium heat.
- Add ajmo, when crackled add turmeric and hing.
- Add the vegetables except the stuffed ones.
- Mix the remaining masala mixture in the vegetables.
- Arrange the stuffed vegetables on top.
- Pour 1 cup of water, cover and cook for 3 whistles.
- Let cool before opening.
- Combine the mithiyas into the cooked vegetables, cover and simmer (without the whistle) for 10 minutes.
- All the liquid should be absorbed.
- Sprinkle sesame seeds and chopped green coriander.
Vegetables
Ingredients
- 6 Baby eggplants
- 8 Baby potatoes
- 1½ cup Surti papdi (wash and de-vein)
- ½ cup Papdi lilva
- ½ cup Tuvar lilva
- 1 cup Purple yam (kand, peeled and cubed)
- 1 cup Sweet potatoes (peeled and cubed)
- 1 Raw green banana (peeled)
Tempering
Ingredients
- 4 tbsps Oil
- 2 tsps Ajmo
- ¼ tsp Turmeric
- ¼ tsp Asafoetida (hing)