Sodhi is one of the south Indian traditional gravy made with coconut milk. The coconut milk is the main ingredient and gives the gravy a special aroma and flavor to the dish.
Sodhi comes well with rice, Rotis, dosa, idli, mainly taste good with idiyappam. The recipe refers different in each family. Some don't use garlic or onions and some don't use any vegetables just use tomatoes and some use only tomato and just one vegetable, some don't do the tempering also and some make the gravy white without added the turmeric powder or any sambar masala just the spiciness from the green chilies. This recipe is my family version.
If you are making fresh coconut milk use the three milk to cook the dal and vegetables. After the it is cooked before tempering the gravy add the first milk to it. When you are making it with freshly made coconut milk the flavor will be amazing. I used canned coconut milk.
I make sodhi for idli and the leftover as a side dish for lunch with rasam rice. It tasted good with both idli and rasam rice.
Ingredients
- Moong dal - 1cup
- Cabbage - 1cup (copped)
- Potato - 1/2cup (copped)
- Carrot - 1/2cup (copped)
- Drumstick - 10nos(1in cut pieces)
- Onion - 1medium no (copped)
- Tomato - 1large no (copped)
- Garlic cloves - 5cloves(cut into 1/2pieces)
- Green chilies - 2nos
- Cumin seeds - 1tbs
- Sambar powder - 1tbsp
- Turmeric powder - 1/2tsp
- Coconut milk - 1cup
- Mustard seeds - 1 1/2tsp
- Curry leaves - optional
- Salt to taste
- Oil as needed
Instructions
- Dry roast moong dal in a pressure cooker till slight brown.
- Then, all the chopped vegetables, onion, tomato, garlic cloves, cumin seeds to the roasted moong dal.
- Then, add 1 1/2 water and 1/4 cup coconut milk to the vegetable and dal.
- Pressure cook all the ingredients until 1 whistle and in simmer for 5 minutes.
- Then, after the pressure is released from the cooker add the leftover 3/4 cup coconut milk, sambar masala, turmeric powder, salt, boil the gravy and add some more water as needed to make it a thick gravy.
- Haet oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds and curry leaves, add it to the gravy.
- Serve with Rice, Roti, Dosa, and Idli
Cooking Tips
- You can make it with just tomato and onion without any vegetables.
- Coconut milk is a must which gives a special flavor and aroma to the gravy.
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