Kadhi : Banaras Style

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  Take two tbsp gram flour and keep it aside. Take remaining flour into a bowl& mix water to it slowly with one hand & keep stirring with other to avoid formation of lumps . Only that much water is added that is sufficient to make a thick mix.
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  Now use your hands and thoroughly mix the paste till it becomes light. To test that your batter is ready put a drop of batter in a bowl of water , if it floats it is ready & if it settles down it needs more mixing.
  
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  Heat oil for deep frying in a wok . Add salt , cumin powder and a pinch of asafetida in the mix . Put this mix in oil in small potions to get nice balls. Fry balls and keep them on kitchen towel.
  
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  Ground ginger , garlic. and chili into thin paste. Mix this paste, the flour which we kept aside earlier, salt & turmeric into curd or buttermilk and dip these balls into it. Keep it for half an hour .
  
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  Now in a deep pan put 1 tbsp mustard oil and heat. Add all the ingredients of tadka one. And pour the ball- curd mix into it. Add some water to it if it is thick. Cook on a high flame for two min by slowly stirring it. Reduce flame and cook for 5min.
  
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  This is an optional step. Heat pure ghee add red chili powder to it & put it immediately over cooked kadhi. This needs to be carefully done because chili burns quickly. Relish it with steamed rice.

To Make it With Tadka 2

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  Boil curd-ball mix in a pan for 5-6 min . Add water to get desired consistency. Heat pure ghee in a tadka pan add all the ingredients of tadka 2 and pour it into boiling kadhi. Switch off the gas. Serve hot with rice