Sindhi Kadhi Recipe | Sindhi curry recipe - SecondRecipe (2024)

If any one of my friends were to ask me, which is the famous Sindhi food ? It is Sindhi Kadhi chawal. Kadhi Chaawar or Sindhi Curry is one of the famous sindhi dishes. This curry is probably the most celebrated signature dish from our kitchen. This vegan kadhi is one of the best Sindhi veg recipes.

Plain rice with Sindhi Kadhi and tukcombination is a regular lunch at Sindhi home on a weekend.Tuk is simple fried potatoes or colocasia. Other easy Sindhi recipes that you can make include Dal pakwan, Kali mirch koki ,bhuga chawar,sindhi papad, sindhi chauthe, seyun patata,sindhi besani ,sindhi sai bhaji, onion koki sindhi mitho lolo , Sindhi onion pickle ,Sindhi kutti, sindhi varo and do not forget Khorak.

While Punjabis make besan ki kadhi recipe with yogurt and pakode (fritters), this is an all veggie affair. Unlike besan kadhi, Sindhi Kadhi is vegan as mostly oil is used in tempering. Punjabi kadhi can be made when you have lots of yogurt left over and have little veggies at home. It is basically, making onion fritters and serving them in a yogurt sauce. Recipe for sindhi kadhi helps you use all the left over raw veggies in refrigerator. We make it with loads of veggies along in a chickpea flour base. It is sour and tangy due to addition of tamarind paste/ imli pulp. Some people also make Sindhi kadhi with tomatoes if they cannot have tamarind due to health reasons.

Is Sindhi kadhi healthy?

This curry is vegan and about making most of what you have.Simple dish with addition of about any vegetable you have at home. You need only a handful but everything comes together in a perfect unison. Thus, making it full of nutrition. You can cook it easily in a deep sauce pan. It is also full of proteins due to gram flour. Beans, eggplants, potatoes, peas, carrots moringa. Slightly fry okra and cluster beans and then add it. Tastes divine. You can also make it gluten-free by avoiding heeng or asafoetida in tempering.

This recipe is strikingly similar to sambhar of southern India. Imagine two similar dishes prepared 1000s of kms apart. Probably, the only difference being, we add minimal spices to the curry. You can serve it to a large gatherings as much as for small lunches. We also serve it especially during weddings as one of the meals. You will never go wrong serving this gravy dish at luncheons or dinners.

Serve it hot with rice, aloo tuk,arbi tuk papad, khichiya and motichur laddu or sweet boondi.

Ingredients for the Sindhi besan kadhi:

Clockwise: Okra/bhindi, cluster beans/gwar, chickpea powder/besan, cumin and mustard seeds, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, curry leaves, oil, tamarind paste, carrots, peas, potatoes, ginger, green chillies, asafoetida/heeng, salt.

How to make Sindhi Cury ?

1. Heat oil in a deep sauce pan.

2. Add chickpea flour/ besan to it.

3. Mix well with a spatula. Cook until it turns golden brown / light brown. Note: The color will darken after we add tamarind paste to it.

4. Add turmeric and red chili powder

5. Add water and let it come to a boil.

6. Cut the potatoes into halves and add it to the pot.

7. Now, add the remaining vegetables like carrots and peas. Mix well

8. Add the tamarind pulp to it and stir well.

9. In another pan, heat oil and sauté the okra.

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10. Add the cluster beans to it once okra is no longer slimy.

11. Now, add the cooked okra and cluster beans to the kadhi. Mix well.

12. In a pan, heat oil and temper some cumin seeds, mustard seeds. You may also add a teaspoon of methi dana/ fenugreek seeds. Once they crackle, add ginger, green chilies & curry leaves to it. Switch it off and add heeng/asafoetida.

Tip: Omit heeng optionally , if serving a gluten-free meal.

13. Add the tempering to pot. Stir and let it simmer for few minutes.

Serve Sindhi kadhi with tuk and boondi, rice and papad.

How to make sindhi kadhi (video)?

Check out our sindhi kadhi recipe video on youtube .

Serve it love. It is a perfect wholesome meal before a good nap 🙂

How to make Sindhi Kadhi in instant pot?

While making sindhi kadhi in an instant pot, I prefer to add all tempering ingredients at the start and also add uncooked veggies. You can choose to cook these veggies separately and then add to the pot.

1. Heat ¼ cup oil. Add teaspoon cumin seeds, mustard seeds, along with handful of red chilies and curry leaves. Let it crackle.

2. Add ginger and optionally chopped green chilies along with ½ cup besan.

3. Mix well until rawness of chickpea flour disappears.

4. Now, add 4 cups water (4 cups of water for ½ cup besan/chickpea flour).

5. Add all the vegetables as per your choice.

6. Add the tamarind extract and mix well.

• Cover the instant pot with the seal ON position, cook on high pressure for 10 minutes.Release the pressure after 5 minutes

Serving suggestion

Serve it with sweet boondi,aloo tukand Kachalu ja Tuk as sides along with plain steamed rice or jeera rice. I prefer serving Basmati rice with it as it has a wonderful aroma to it.

What are the different types of kadhi recipes?

You can also make Sindhi tomato curry or Sindhi karhi with tomatoes. We use lentils instead of chickpea flour in another version. Sindhi kadhi with toor dal is good way to feed kids who cannot digest besan easily. Another variation is the Bhatia Kadhi where we make above recipe of Sindhi kadi with curd addition. Besides that are Dahi ki kadhi and gatte. Below is the list of different sindhi curry recipes.

• Kale Boondi ke Laddoo
• Arbi fry in air fryer | Arbi tuk recipe
• Besan Kadhi recipe | Kadhi pakora recipe| Punjabi dahi ki kadhi
• Sindhi Tomato Kadhi | Tamatar ji kadhi | Sindhi kadhi with tomatoes
• Sindhi Toor dal Kadhi | Sindhi tuvar dal kadhi
• Gatte ki kadhi

FAQs

Storage

Store it in refrigerator for 2-4 days.

Other variations

You can choose any vegetables of your choice. Some prefer to cook the vegetables like okra,beans,carrots first and then add them to the kadhi. However you can add them uncooked along with the potatoes, the only difference is that they may turn out little mushy/break if they are not cooked seperately.