Potato Pea Curry | Batani Gasi Recipe | Chapati Side dish
Ingredients
- Peas- 3/4 cup
- Potato - 1 medium sized
- Grated coconut- 1 cup
- Red chillies- 2 nos.
- Coriander seeds- 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds- 3/4 tsp
- Split black gram lentil urad dal- 3/4 tsp
- Salt- 1 to 1.5 tsp
- Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
- Tamarind- Lemon sized
- Jaggery- Small lemon sized or 1.5 tsp
Seasoning Ingredients
- Cooking oil- 1 tsp
- Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp
- Curry leaves- few
Instructions
Preparation
- Soak peas in enough water for about 6 hours or overnight.
- Soak tamarind in water for about 10 minutes and extract it's thick juice extracting residue.
- Wash potato under running water and chop it in to small cubes. Keep them immersed in water till use to avoid discoloration.
Method
- Cook peas in immersing level water till peas are half done.
- Now add thick tamarind extract, jaggery, turmeric powder and chopped potato cubes. Let it cook in low flame till peas and potato cubes are soft.
- Meanwhile dry roast split black gram lentil(urad dal) till lentils turn slightly brown.
- Combine grated coconut, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, red chillies and roasted black gram lentils in to mixer jar and grind them together in to fine paste. Add this ground paste to cooked potato peas of step 2.
- Now cook potato peas curry with ground masala in medium flame. Add salt to taste and little water. Bring it to boil and switch off.
- Heat seasoning pan adding oil, mustard seeds and curry leaves, when mustard seeds pop up transfer it to potato peas curry.
- Relish this potato peas curry with chapati or rice. It tastes extremely good with each of them.
Note
- None of the spices(coriander seeds, cumin, red chilly)require roasting except urad dal.
- Cubed potatoes are added only after peas are half cooked. This is because peas take longer time to cook than potato. If you cook both of them together potatoes would get mushy by the time peas are cooked.
- You can use pressure cooker also to cook the vegetables, but make sure they are not overcooked. This curry tastes good when peas and potato are soft but not mushy.
- Adjust salt and red chilly as per your taste buds.
- The gravy has to be slightly thick than normal curry, so include water accordingly.