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Recipe: Dahi Kadhi Pulau

February 08, 2023 12:27 IST

Kadhi Chawal is a popular north Indian comfort food.

But Dahi Kadhi Rice, a South Indian special on the menu of the Udupi restaurant we ordered from, regularly, when we worked at The Sunday Observer in Nariman Point, south Mumbai, was equally soothing on the tummy and the soul.

Basically, it was a pulau made with kadhi in it and served up with rice papad.

But it was a South Indian kadhi made like a Moru Curry with lots of curry pattas and without the besan (chickpea flour).

This is how I recreate it at home:

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Dahi Kadhi Rice

Serves: 1-2

For the kadhi

For the pulau

For serving

Method

Zelda's Note: For a Jain version, replace the fresh ginger with 1 tsp saunth or dried ginger and for a vegan version use vegan yoghurt.
Serve the rice by itself or with Nadiya Sarguroh's Spicy Green Coriander Chicken Curry or Bethica Das's Tilapia Fish Fry.

ZELDA PANDE