North Indian
Kadhi Pakora (Yogurt Curry with Fritters)
Kadhi Pakora (Yogurt Curry with Fritters) is North Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the protein alongside. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.75 cups besan (chickpea flour)
- 2 cups plain yogurt
- 1 onion
- 2 green chilies
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 3/4 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp red chili powder
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
- 1/4 tsp asafoetida (hing)
- 10 curry leaves
- 2 dried red chilies
- 1 cup neutral oil
- 5 cups water
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Whisk 1 cup besan with the chopped onion, green chilies, a little salt, and enough water into a thick batter, then drop spoonfuls into hot oil and fry the pakoras until golden. Set them aside.
- Whisk the yogurt with 3/4 cup besan, turmeric, red chili powder, salt, and the water until smooth with no lumps.
- Heat 3 tbsp oil in a pot and let the cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, hing, curry leaves, and dried red chilies sizzle.
- Pour in the yogurt mixture and bring it to a gentle boil, stirring constantly so it does not split, then simmer on low for 25 minutes until thickened.
- Slip in the fried pakoras, simmer for 5 more minutes, and serve.
Serve it with
A North Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Kadhi Pakora (Yogurt Curry with Fritters), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Kadhi Pakora (Yogurt Curry with Fritters) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Masala Omelette |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Pulses, Vegetables, and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Kadhi Pakora (Yogurt Curry with Fritters) takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on yogurt, chickpea flour, and onion.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from North India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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