BM # 27 Day 16
Seasonal : Winter
Day 16 and we enter a new week, with a new theme..and this week its everything to do with seasons..Food and veggies relished in a particular season, due to it’s properties and availability.Though we do get just about everything through out the year, yet who likes to eat heavy stuff like parathas in summer? The charm of eating and drinking with a particular season is different.
I had another recipe planned for today, but decided to post Kaanji wadas as most of you had asked for it..luckily it fitted in the Seasonal slot.
Kaanji is a delicious drink prepared with mustard powder.This is a Rajasthani dish, which is served on Holi and Diwali.Usually prepared in winters, as mustard is a food that produces heat in the body.This has to be prepared at least two days in advance to get that tangy flavor released from mustard.
This has been one of my favorite drinks..or should I say eat and drink recipe!I remember as a school girl, I would specially go to the Old Delhi markets Nai Sarak in Chandni Chowk to eat these.As yet if you happen to go there you will find lot of street hawkers selling these.Once you finish eating that tangy wada, your next attack is on that spicy water.I would have bowls and bowls.They would serve these in pattals.
Kaanji
2 tbsp yellow mustard
1 tsp red chilly powder
I tsp black salt
Salt to taste
Grind all to a fine powder and add to 2 litres water.
Leave to ferment for at least a day.
Wadas
2 ½ cups moong daal, soaked for 3`4 hours.
1 tsp green chilly paste
½ tsp fennel seeds
½ tsp asafoetida
Salt to taste
Wash the soaked daal and leave it in the strainer, so it becomes dry.
Coarsely grind it adding minimum water required.
Add rest of the ingredients.
These wadas can be made in two styles…
Wet your hands, take about 2 tsps of the batter, making a flat circle, and then deep frying.
Take a flat steel bowl, wet that, place the daal paste, flatten and deep fry.
Drain on an absorbent tissue.soak in water for an hour, after which these should be transferred to the kaanji which has been made a day before.
These immersed vadas, should be left for another day to ferment.
Once these are done, place it in the refrigerator, should last about 2-3 days, depending on the weather conditions.
wada and all the goodies look delicious
Heard lot about this kaanji wadas but never had a chance to taste it..looks fabulous.
Can imagine the burst of flavors in this one. Thanks for sharing the recipe :-).
And btw, Vaishali, the last picture (I believe its the logo) is not showing up in any of the posts. You might want to check it up.
OMG I am loving that picture all over again…everything looks amazing Vaishali!..Looking forward to yet another week of goodness!
Awesome. Love the Kaanji wadas the taste must be awesome. Thanks for sharing
It is surprising Vaishali that living in delhi, i never heard of this. sound so so yummy! And pics ka kya kehna! The kaanji water is actually similar to the pickle water base we make for a small mango pickle
Rajani I have checked from different sights and the logo is loading pretty well.
Awesome vada.. its my mom favourite.. So tasty and spicy
My mom shall kill for this one. She loves her Kanji so so much. Must make for her sometime 🙂
Very interesting recipe. Sounds very flavorful and with so mustard there sure is a punch!
sounds new to me,looks delicious..
i rememberd ur pani puri with hing flavor reading this, for some reason, this is new recipe for me and seems so interesting, especially on holi day
Very new to me. Wadas look different and tasty.
First time hearing this, your wadas are inviting
Heard about these but never tasted them. All these winter recipes are in my 'to taste' list when I visit you next time 🙂
A new dish. I have never tasted a yellow mustard Indian dish.