surati undhiyu !

This is my first post of my blog. As the name suggests, this blog will primarily be about my culinary experiments!

I am from Surat, a small but industrialized city in the western state, Gujarat, of India.

Surat is famous for it's mouthwatering delicacies! So let's start with an exclusive Surati recipi - "Surati Undhiyu".

Let's start first with the picture of the prepared dish!

Surati Undhiyu

Surati Papadi (uncooked)

Ingredients:

- Surati papadi (a type of beans) 500gms

- potato 2-3 medium sized potato

- sweet potato 2-3 medium sized 

- brinjal 250 gms

- purple yam( ratalu) 200gm 

- methi muthiyas (fenugreek balls) approx 12-15 pieces 

- oil 

- ajwain (carom)

- turmeric powder

- salt

- sugar

- green chilly, ginger and garlic paste

- groundnut and sesame seeds powder

- coriander powder

- coriander leaves for garnishing too...

Methi muthiya

- methi leaves finely chopped (fenugreek leaves) approx half a bunch

- besan(gram flour)

- green chilly, ginger and garlic paste

- jowar flour( Sorghum flour)

- turmeric

- salt

- sugar

- oil 2 tbsp

- oil for frying

Procedure for methi muthiyas

Take a big bowl, in that add finely chopped fenugreek leaves, besan 3-4 tbsp, green chilly, ginger and garlic paste according to taste, 2 tbsp of jowar flour, turmeric, salt to taste, sugar 1 tbsp, oil 2tbsp mix all ingredients properly to prepare dough. Make 12 balls from the dough and deep fry it on medium flame till they are golden brown.

Procedure

Take a bowl add groundnut and sesame seed powder(leave little bit of powder needed at last), green chilly, ginger and garlic paste, coriander powder, fresh chopped coriander, salt, turmeric, 1 tbsp of oil and mix all ingredients well... now make criss-cross slits on the brinjals, taking care not to separate the segments and fill that mixture in the brinjals.Keep aside those stuffed brinjals

In cooker, add 4-5 tbsp of oil, in that put 1tsp of ajwain in it, once you get the aroma of ajwain then add pinch of sanchoro(papad khar). 

Add properly washed surati papdi and green chilly, ginger and garlic paste, salt, turmeric powder, sugar 3-4 tbsp(Note:Salt, turmeric is already added to methi muthiyas, brinjal stuffing) to it and saute it

Add potato, sweet potato, purple yam cut into cubes to it.

Add those stuffed brinjals and mix it properly and add little water to it and cook it for 3-4 whistles of pressure cooker.

Open the cooker immediately by removing steam out of it.

Now put cooker again on flame and add left over groundnut and sesame powder and freshly chopped coriander leaves to it.

Your surati papdi undhiyu is ready to serve.

How to eat?

Typically surati undhiyu can be had with any type of Indian bread.... fried puri made of wheat or fulka made of wheat or jowar roti.