With increasing emphasis on healthy living and caring for the environment, using leftover kitchen essentials is becoming a necessity. We tend to find the most innovative recipes and ideas to use even fruit peels and waste vegetables from the kitchen. These recipes are beneficial for nature in the sense that they make the best out of waste, thus reducing carbon footprint and helping in managing waste. Further, our traditional recipes get an edgy new flavour with these leftover ingredients that are added to the dish.
Spoilt or leftover curd is one of the most underrated kitchen ingredients, which can easily be utilised in everyday cooking. There are a number of healthy recipes and ideas that you can create with simple leftover home curd.
Here Are 7 Ways You Can Use Leftover Curd And Make Some Interesting New Recipes:
1. Kadhi
The simple kadhi uses leftover curd to make up a creamy curry, known as 'Kadhi'. This combines besan and curd, and the resulting dish can be eaten with rice or chapatis. The kadhi can be made sweet or spicy as per the taste preferences.
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2. Dahi Waale Aloo
Rajasthani cuisine has a penchant for using leftover curd in every recipe possible! Apart from being used in dishes like Gatte or Papad ki sabzi, one recipe that uses curd is dahi waale aloo. Rather than cooking potatoes in a tomato curry, try this interesting recipe instead.
3. Dosa
Did you know that dosa batter can be made a little bit more flavourful by using leftover curd? An additional advantage of adding curd to your dosa batter is that the batter has a sour edge to it.
4. Idli
Similarly with idlis - the idli batter tends to get a little flat and unidimensional in taste. Adding leftover curd to the batter makes the idlis rise better when they are steamed.
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5. Dhokla
The Gujaratis love their dhokla at any time of the day; and guess what - it is one more recipe that uses leftover curd! So, next time you're planning to make a healthy evening snack, use your curd and make a dhokla instead.
6. Dough
The much-loved street snack chhole bhature is also an innovative way to use up leftover curd. Simply add leftover curd to the kneaded maida dough, instead of adding yeast. Your bhaturas will be slightly sour and taste truly unbelievable.
7. Hung Curd Dip
And if you really run out of ideas to use up your leftover curd, there's always a dip! Make this easy hung curd dip and see how well it goes with all your chips and nachos at home.
(Also Read: Hung Curd Benefits: 5 Reasons Why You Should Be Loading Up On The Creamy Wonder)
So, next time that bowl of curd in the fridge doesn't finish in a single day; try these recipes and ideas without having to worry about it going waste.