Badi (Badhi) Chura

About Badi

       Badi is the dried version of white lentil batter and is usually made up of white lentil (with peel its called black gram/Urad/Udad) and stored away for years. It comes in handy as a quick side dish when you have to put a meal together in a jiffy. Please have a look at below pictures with badis on a plate, dried under sun. These are small in size.

Ingredients

1. Few Badis
2. 3 teaspoonful Oil for frying the badis
3. Small onion chopped
4. 1 green chilli chopped
5. A couple of crushed garlic
6. Salt

How To

1. Heat oil in a pan and shallow fry the badis and keep aside.
2. Mix Onion, Garlic, Chilli and salt to it and crush it in a Grinder
3. Serve it with rice. Add salt if required.
4. The crunch of the badi with the smell of garlic and onion is therapeutic.

Plain Cauliflower fry

Ingredients:

1. A medium size cauliflower
2. Onion - 1 Medium size
3. Green chilli - 1 (Or Red dry chilli - 1 )
4. Mustard - 1 tablespoon
5. Jeera - 1/2 tablespoon
6. Mustard Oil - 3 tablespoon or as required
7. salt - as required per taste
8. Turmeric Powder

Steps to Prepare:

1. Chop cauliflower into small pieces and wash it properly
2. Chop onion into narrow pieces
3. Keep the bowl on Gas Stove and pour oil. Keep it for 2-3 mins till it gets hot.
4. Put Mustard, Jeera and chilli and fry it for 2-3 mins.
5. Put Onion into it and fry for 5-6 mins.
6. Put cauliflower pieces, add salt and turmeric powder as required.
7. Mix it well, cover it and leave it with low flame for few mins.
8. Check whether the cauliflower gets boiled or not, If required add lil water for boiling well.
9. Once it boiled more than half, increase flame and stir it well for 5-10 mins.
10. Turn off the Stove and Cover it and keep for few mins and then serve.

Have a look: It may look alike