Authentic Tirunelveli Sodhi

Sodhi or Sodhi Kuzhambu is an authentic dish in Tirunelveli District in TamilNadu.  This dish is a combination of veggies cooked in coconut milk. Sodhi Sappadu is given as a special lunch to bridegroom in the next day of marriage. It is called as "Sodhi Virundhu". It is a combination of Sodhi, steam rice, ginger chutney, potato curry and papad. This Sodhi is a great combo with idiyappam, appam and dosai also. My mom and sister both are experts in making this recipe. I just learnt it from my sister.

Ingredients:

Shallots /Small onion - 1 cup
Garlic cloves - 5 to 7 nos
Boiled potatoes - 4 medium size (Cubed)
Oil - 3 tablespoon
Mustard - 1 teaspoon
Urad dhall - 1 teaspoon
Curry leaf - few nos
Veggies - 1 1/4 cup (Beans, Drumstick, Carrot)
Green chilli - 2 nos (Slit)
Coconut milk - 4 cup (thick milk)
Moong dhall - 1 cup (Boiled and mashed)
Salt - to taste
Water - 3 cup
Lemon - 1

For Grinding:

Ginger - 2 nos (1 inch)
Green chilli - 2 nos
Coconut - 1 cup(grated)
Jeera - 1 teaspoon

Method:

1.  Heat oil in a heavy bottom pan and add mustard. Once mustard splutter, add urad dhall, curry leaf, shallots, garlic cloves, split green chilli and veggies one by one.
2. Mix well until veggies are slightly sauted. Add 1:2 ratio of thick coconut milk and water to the pan and allow veggies to boil.
3. In a mixer, blend grated coconut, green chilli, ginger and jeera by adding little water to make a thick paste.
4. Once Veggies are par boiled, add moong dhall, potatoes, grounded coconut paste and mix well.
5. Add 2:1 cup of coconut milk and water to the pan.
6. Allow the mixture to boil until raw smell of grounded paste vanish off.
7. Finally add 1 cup thick coconut milk and salt and allow it to boil for 5 mins.
8. Allow Sodhi to cool off, then finally add lemon juice around 2 tablespoon before serving.

Yummy and Authentic Sodhi kuzhambu is ready to be served. Best combination to serve sodhi is with Inji pachidi. 

(Click above link for Inji Pachadi).