Wheat / Gahu / Gehu Kurdai is a tasty traditional marathi dish which belongs to papad category & falls under papad category.You can call it cousin of papad. It is munching snack which can be served with tea or as a side dish with dal rice.
It eaten after frying like papad,but it is spiral shaped like chakli and looks like a birds nest. It is a made in mostly Maharashtrian homes and in some parts of Gujarat too.
Wheat Kurdai is a delicious snack usually made during the summer time,sun dried and stored. You need lots of patience and time to make these pearly white, noodle like Kurdais.
It normally made from wheat but you even get sabudana kurdai,rice flour kurdai & rava kurdai.
For kurdai Wheat is soaked in water for three days and then finely ground. The milky white extract (called as Gavhacha Cheek- Gahu means Wheat and cheek means extract) is separated from the wheat skin.
This milky white extract is then cooked with water to make a soft stiff dough called Ukad, which is ipassed through a chakli press(Thin Sev press) to get the kurdais. These are then dried and stocked.
