Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, dried yellow peas ghugni or curry. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Dried yellow peas are called motor (pronounced as mow-tor) dal in Bengali. And since a spicy, tangy curry is known as ghugni, this recipe is also known as motor daler ghugni. In the city of joy, you will spot numerous street vendors, with their small carts selling yummy ghugni (dried yellow peas curry). Kolkata Street Food Special: Ghugni - Bengali Dried Yellow Peas Curry This recipe for ghugni is the easiest way of making the popular Bengali snack, often served with luchis (deep fried indian breads) or even muri (puffed rice) as an evening snack.
Dried Yellow Peas Ghugni or Curry is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Dried Yellow Peas Ghugni or Curry is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook dried yellow peas ghugni or curry using 20 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Dried Yellow Peas Ghugni or Curry:
- Get 1 cup dried yellow peas
- Get 2 onions chopped
- Make ready 1 onion paste
- Take 1 tsp ginger paste
- Take 1/2 tsp garlic paste
- Get 3 tbsp tomato puree
- Get 4 tbsp mustard oil
- Get 1 tsp ghee
- Make ready 1 tsp kitchen king masala
- Take 1 tsp dry roasted cumin seed powder
- Get 1/2 tsp garam masala
- Prepare 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Get 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
- Take To taste salt and sugar
- Prepare 3 cloves
- Get 2 cardamom
- Prepare 1 stick cinnamon
- Make ready 2 bay leaves
- Prepare 1 tbsp coriander chopped
- Make ready 1 tbsp coconut chopped
Back home, my Mom used to cook this pretty often and it was a staple then. Ghugni can be served with luchi, paratha, roti, or enjoy devouring on its own. Ghugni or Ghoognee is a very very popular snack in Bengal and in parts of Bihar and Orissa. It is made with dried white peas and cooked with myriad spices in.
Steps to make Dried Yellow Peas Ghugni or Curry:
- Soak yellow peas (matar)overnight in warm water.Discard water.Make a paste of onion,ginger garlic.Add this to the soaked peas.Add 3 tbsp mustard oil,red chilli powder,turmeric, kitchen king masala,tomato puree,1 tbsp chopped onion and coconut.Add bay leaves. Also add salt and sugar to taste.1 pinch baking soda may be added so that matar cooks well. Pressure cook upto 4 whistles.Open lid after 5 minutes.Check softness.It should be just done and not mushy.
- Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and sprinkle half crushed whole garam masala.Lightly fry rest of onion and pour the ghugni over it.Boil it for few minutes and add roasted cumin powder.Sprinkle ghee and toss.Garnish with chopped coriander.Serve hot with chopped onion,lemon slices and green and red chillies as a side dish with any Indian flat bread or poori.
Ghugni or Ghoognee is a very very popular snack in Bengal and in parts of Bihar and Orissa. It is made with dried white peas and cooked with myriad spices in. Turn off the heat and place the cooker under running cold water. Open the cooker lid and keep aside. Take a pan, heat the oil in it.
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