Gahat ka shorba

A healthy soup made with a very nutritious local grain called Gahat along with flavours of garlic and coriander.

Ingredients 

400 grams gahat (horsegram)
3 grams jakhiya (local mustard of Uttarakhand)
1 pinch asafoetida
15 grams coriander root
1/2 teaspoon cumin
Onion
Garlic ginger paste

Instructions 

Heat oil add cumin, coriander seed, chopped ginger garlic, and onion sauté it.
Then add asafoetida, when it starts releasing flavor add roughly chopped tomato and coriander root
Saute it and add water and gahat, cook it on a slow flame till it is mushy
Strain it and adjust seasoning, serve hot.


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