Kadhi, an ethnic fermented food is popular is most parts of India, but has very short life at ambient temperature. A long shelf life kadhi (prepared by cooking lactic fermented milk with gram flour and spices) was developed by retort processing of the product. Kadhi was packed in retortable pouches and subjected to heat treatment of F0 = 3.0 and F0 = 5.0. The 'Come-up' time required in kadhi heat treated to F0 = 3.0 to attain retort temperature of 115 C was 6 min whereas that in case of heat treated to F0 = 5.0, it was 12 min. The corresponding 'Process - time' were 27.25 and 48.11 min. and...