Halwai November 27, 2024

Ingredients:

• 300 g – Wheat Rawa (preferably bansi Rawa)
• 1.5 tbsp – oil
• 50 g – fresh Green peas (or boiled peas)
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 green chillies, cut into small pieces
• 1/2 inch piece – ginger, chopped fine
• 10 Curry leaves
• 2 tsp – chopped, coriander
• 1/2 tsp – Mustard Seeds
• 1 tsp – Urad Dal
• 2 tsp – Channa dal
• 1/2 tbsp – cashew bits (fried in a tsp of ghee)
• 1 tsp – Ghee
• 1 tomato, chopped fine
• salt

Method:

  1. Heat a kadai with oil, add mustard seeds, urad, channa dals and curry leaves.
  2. Fry till the seeds splutter and dals become light brown.
  3. Add onion, green chilli and ginger
  4. Fry for 1 min and add green peas, salt and sprinkle some water.
  5. Cook under sim for 2 to 3 min
  6. Add tomato, stir once, add water (3 times the quantity of rawa) and let it boil for a min.
  7. Add rawa slowly stirring continuously so that no lumps are formed, keep it under sim for 2 to 3 min.
  8. Garnish with fried cashews and chopped coriander and remove.
  9. Serve with groundnut chutney/any pickle/sambhar.

Recipe courtesy of Uma Devi Ramachandra