Healthy Food Recipes - Fresh Green Peas Kurma!
Posted on: 18/Dec/2014 12:28:22 PM
Ingredients:
- Fresh green peas � 200 grams
- Onion � 2 nos
- Tomatoes � 2 nos
- Fennel Seeds � � spoon
- Cinnamon stick � 1 inch piece
- Cloves � 3 nos
- Curry leaves � a few
- Turmeric Powder � a pinch
- Sambar Powder � 1 spoon
- Salt � To taste
- Garam Masala powder � 1 spoon
- Oil � 5 spoons
To Roast and Grind:
- Fennel Seeds � � spoon
- Cinnamon stick � 2 nos
- Cloves - 2 nos
- Ginger � to a length of 1 cm
- Garlic � 10 pieces
- Melon seeds � a few (optional)
- Mint leaves � half cup
- Coriander leaves � a few
- Onion � 1 nos
- Tomato � 1 nos
- Coconut � a small piece
- Fried gram - 2 spoon
Method:
- Heat 1 tbsp oil in the pan and add the ingredients given under the title �to roast and grind� one after the other.
- Transfer it to a plate and allow it to cool for some time.
- Grind it to a fine paste in a mixer along with a piece of coconut and the fried gram.
- Again heat the same pan, and add 2 spoons of oil to it. Then add fennel seeds, clove and cinnamon to it.
- Once it splutter, add curry leaves, onion and tomato. Saut� it well until tomato turns mushy.
- Now add the fresh green peas and stir well.
- Then add the turmeric powder, salt to taste, Garam masala powder, sambar powder and add the required quantity of water.
- Either close the lid till the green peas gets cooked well or pressure cook it for 1 whistle.
- Now open the lid and add the grinded paste of masala to it and mix well.
- Allow it to boil for 5 minute until the raw masala smell leaves.
- Now garnish it with the coriander leaves and serve hot!
- This fresh Peas Kurma will go well with side dish for chapatti, idli and dosai.
Note:
- For any kind of curry or Kurma, if you add the boiled and smashed potato, the taste will be adorable.
- If you didn�t get the fresh green peas, you can soak dry green peas for 5 to 7 hrs and use it.
- Once you add the grinded masala paste into the curry, never allow it boil for a longer duration, since over boiling of coconut is not good for health.
Recipe by : More Recipes�
Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
