Veenas Vegnation: Mutter Ka Nimona

Winter is here and we can see loads of green peas in most of the vegetable shops. Yes you heard me right J…we are experiencing a tinge of winter in Chennai too. Anyway with so much of peas everywhere, it was time to cook a new dish and I had bookmarked this from Cubes and Juliennes and tweaked it to suit my taste.

INGREDIENTS

Recipe Source: Cubes And Juliennes

Fresh green peas	2 cups
Onion	2
Tomato	3
Cumin Seeds	1 tsp
Ginger garlic paste	1tsp
Green chilli paste	1/2tsp
Chilli powder	1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder	1/4^th tsp
Garam Masala	1tsp
Oil	2tsp
Salt	To taste

PREPARATION

Cut the onions and tomatoes finely and keep aside

Cook the peas in the cooker up to 2 whistles. Let it cool completely. Now grind it coarsely in a mixer. Keep aside

Heat Oil in a pan. When it is sufficiently hot add the cumin seeds. When the cumin sizzles, add the cut onions and saute till it becomes transparent .

Now reduce the flame and add the ginger garlic paste and continue to cook in very low flame for a minute

Add the cut tonatoes and the chilli paste and mix well. Add chilli powder and salt and cook till the tomatoes turn mushy

Now add the coarsely gropund peas and garam masala powder, mix well and cook on low flame

Add more water if necessary

Cook for 3 minutes more and switch off the fire

Serve with roti or hot rice

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