What we need:
Green peas
Potato
Onion (fine chopped)
Tomato (paste)
Ginger paste
Green chilli
Cumin seeds
Coriander powder
Asafoetida powder
Turmeric powder
Salt
Oil
How we make it:
At first, put the green peas in the grinder and make it a semi-smooth paste. Now, heat the oil in a pan. Then cut the potatoes in medium pieces and fry them light brown and separate it in a bowl. Now add cumin seeds in the rest of the oil. Once the seeds start to crackle, add asafoetida powder and chopped onions in the pan. Fry them properly and add the tomato paste when the onions become golden. Cook the tomato paste until its raw smell goes away. Then add ginger paste along with the powdered spices and salt. Cook the spices in low flame until oil starts to separate. Next add chopped green chilli and the peas paste. Mix it with the spices well. Now pour some water and cover the pan. When the paste starts boiling, add the fried potatoes into it and low down the flame. The potatoes need to be soft and peas paste has to turn into a thick gravy. At the end sprinkle some garam masala powder and turn off the flame. The dish is ready to serve.
Jeera Brown Rice:
What we need:
Brown rice
Cumin seeds
Cardamom
Cinnamon stick
Cloves
Cashew nuts
Bay leaf
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves
Roasted cumin powder
Salt
Ghee
How we make it:
At first, soak rice in water for around half an hour, then boil it till it becomes tender. Now strain the water and keep the boiled rice separately. Now heat a pan and pour ghee into it. Add cumin seeds, whole garam masalas along with the bay leaf in the ghee. Then add the curry leaves and cashew nuts and fry them a little. Now put off the gas, pour the whole mixture into the rice. Add salt, finely chopped coriander leaves and roasted cumin powder and mix the whole thing with rice properly. Now it's ready to serve.
Soya chunks dry roast:
What we need:
Soya chunks
Ginger garlic paste
Curry leaves
Onion
Tomato
Green chilli
Coriander powder
Kashmiri red chilli powder
Black pepper powder
Garam masala powder
Turmeric powder
Salt
How we make it:
Boil water with half spoon of salt in a bowl. Add the soya chunks in the bowl. After sometime, when the soya chunks become fluffy, take it out of water and squeeze the water from it and fry them brown. Now heat oil in a pan and add chopped onions in the pan. Stir and add curry leaves then fry them well. Next add ginger garlic paste and cook until the aroma starts come out Next add chopped tomato and cook the whole thing well After that, add all the powder along with salt and cook them until oil starts separating from the mixture. Now add soya chunks and mix them with the masala well. Cover the pan just for sometime and then put off the gas. The dish is ready to serve.
