Combine wheat flour, movan, salt, carom seeds and chilli powder in a plate. Mix movan very well. Add khichdi, mix well. Grease your palms with oil. Pinch a small portion from there. Roll between your palms to give them evenly cylindrical shape. Prepare all the muthiyas like wise. Combine curd and water well and add salt.
Heat oil in a pan. Crackle jeera, add asafoetida and curry leaves. Pour chhash in it followed by chilli powder and turmeric powder. Stir continuously until it starts to boil.
Slide in muthiyas one at a time in boiling chhash. Adjust seasoning. Cover and cook on medium to low heat until the muthiyas float on surface.
Tips on Muthiya: 1. It is must to mix movan in the flour thoroughly before adding khichdi. 2. The consistency of muthiya dough should be quite soft so add only that much amount of flour. Do NOT add a lot of flour and then use water to make soft dough. 3. Too much flour in khichdi will make the dough hard resulting in hard muthiya. And not enough flour (binder) in the dough will result in breaking muthiyas while boiling. 4. Leftover dhili vaghareli khichdi is the best for yummy muthiya.
Tips on Ra's/curry: the curry is mainly made of chhash which thickens a bit after adding muthiya. 1. Use reasonably sour curd. In this case, use half water and half curd to make chhash. 2. Change the proportion of water and curd depending on the sourness of curd. You may not need much water if the curd is not sour.
3. It is advisable to add more curd during the time of boiling if the curry tastes less sour, than confidently taking more curd and less water in the beginning. I have had very sour curry due to my over confidence. 4. Stir continuously while waiting for chhash to boil. Not stuffing will lead to curdling and souring the curd. 4. Curry in this dish has to be way more than the muthiya.
