Green peas curry (godila / nimona)

Ingredients:

• Fresh green Peas: 2 cup
• Onion: 1no. (Small size)
• Green chili: 2no.
•  Coriander leaves: 1tablespoon (fine chopped)
• Salt: 1 teaspoon
• Turmeric powder: one forth teaspoon
• Chili powder: 1 teaspoon
• Cumin seed: half teaspoon
• Fennel seed: one teaspoon
• Tomato: 2 no. (Medium size)
• Ginger: 1” piece
• Garlic: 2 flacks
• Cooking oil: 5-6 tablespoon

Preparation:

1. Grind onion, 1 tomato, garlic, ginger, and fennel seed together, make fine paste.
2. Keep aside this masala paste.
3. Grind half 0f the peas with coriander leaves into fine paste, and remaining half peas roughly.
4. Keep aside these peas pastes.
5. Chop remaining one tomato.
6. Cut potatoes into cubes or as you wish.

Method:

1. Take fry pan, put oil, heat and add potato, deep fry for approx 5 minutes (till potato becomes tender).
2. Take it out, and keep aside.
4. Add cumin seed in remaining oil, when it turns brown, add masala paste.
5.  Stir it. Fry till liquid dries up or oil separates from masala (about 3-4 minutes on medium flame).
6. Add both peas’ paste (rough and fine).
7. Stir regularly, fry until it is half done on low flame. (About 5-7 minutes)
8. Add salt turmeric powder, chili powder, and one cup of water (you can add more water for your required consistency (dal like consistency).
9.  Add fried potato and boil for two minutes.
10. Yummy green pea s curry is ready. It is a great side dish.

    

You can serve this with plane rice or paratha.

Green peas curry (godila / nimona) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.