Punjabi Kadhi

Chickpea-flour dumplings in a yogurt-based gravy

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

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By Sanjeev Kapoor

Published 2011

  • About

Forty years ago, many homes in India did not have refrigerators. So people used innovative recipes for ingredients that spoiled easily. One of those ingredients was yogurt. Without refrigeration, yogurt would often turn sour, and sour yogurt was the perfect excuse to make a comforting kadhi. If you have the patience, you can wait for your yogurt to sour, but you don’t have to.

Be sure to mix the yogurt well with the besan before adding it to the pot or the yogurt will