Sodhi

Ingredients
Moong Dal – 1 cup boiled & mashed
Coconut gratings from 1½ coconuts
Vegetables like carrot, beans, peas, eggplant, drumstick (cut into long pieces)
Potatoes boiled, peeled and cut into long pieces.
Pearl onions – 100 gms
Garlic pods – 2-4 (optional)
Turmeric powder
Salt to taste
Green chillies
Ginger
Lemon – 1

Get Cooking!
1. Extract coconut milk from the gratings of 3 consistencies – 1st, 2nd & 3rd extracts.
2. Boil all the veggies in the 3rd extract (the thinnest milk)
3. Meanwhile, fry the peeled pearl onions & garlic pods. Add to the boiling mixture.
4. Add in the mashed moong dal & the 2nd (medium consistency) extract.
5. Grind the green chillies & ginger into a paste.
6. Add the turmeric powder, salt & green chillies- ginger paste. Bring to a boil.
7. Add the 1st extract (thick coconut milk). Switch the heat off immediately.
8. Squeeze the juice out of one lemon and mix it up.
9. Serve with rice & ginger thogayal, potatoes cooked like french fries 🙂

Tips
There are many variations to the above dish. Some could add spices like somph, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom to the sodhi as whole spices or powdered or ground to a paste. Some even temper the dish with mustard seeds, broken urad dal. One other variation to the dish is to use black peper seeds instead of green chillies.