Ingredients:
- Fresh green peas – 200 grams
- Onion – 2 nos
- Tomatoes – 2 nos
- Fennel Seeds – ½ 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 – ¼ 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. Sauté 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.
Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
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