Description
My home town special, Dried Green peas cooked in coconut milk gravy. List might look long, but its worth a try. (Dried Green Peas Kurma / More like a Green Pea Soup cooked with coconut milk)
| Ingredients-1 | |
|---|---|
| 1 cup | Dried green peas |
| 2 no | Onion (diced) |
| 1 no | Tomato (diced) |
| 1 no | Green chilli |
| 1 tsp | Ginger garlic paste |
| 1 pinch | Mustard |
| ¼ tsp | Cumin seeds |
| 1 pinch | Fennel seeds |
| 1 no | Bay leaf |
| 2 nos | Cloves |
| 2 nos | Cardamon |
| 2 nos | Cinnamon stick (small) |
| 3 nos | Black stone flower/ kalpasi |
| 5 nos | Curry leaves |
| 2 pinch | Turmeric powder |
| ½ tsp | Red chilli powder |
| 1 tsp | Coriander /dhania powder |
| 1 tsp | Salt (or to taste) |
| 5 tsp | Oil / ghee |
| 3 stks | Coriander leaves (for garnishing) |
| Ingredients-2 | |
|---|---|
| 1 cup | Coconut grated |
| 3 nos | Cashews |
| 2 tsp | Split roasted gram / roasted channa dal |
| ½ cup | Water |
Instructions
Wash and soak dried green peas overnight. Grind all ingredients in table-2 to make a thick paste. Heat oil / ghee in a pressure cooker, season with mustard, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, cinnamon, cloves, cardamon, bay leaf, black stone flower and curry leaves. Saute onions and green chilli until they turn golden, then add ginger garlic paste and tomatoes. Cook them along with turmeric, red chilli powder and coriander powder. Wash again the pre- soaked green peas, drain all the water and add it to the onion tomato gravy along with salt. Add 2 cups water and pressure cook for 4 whistles and switch off. Once the steam is released, open carefully, add the ground coconut paste and bring it to a boil. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with hot steaming idlis / dosai /roti.
Notes
Black stone flower is optional, only a few Indian grocery stores have them.
Store bought coconut milk can also be used (just 1/2 can for this proportion)
My dried green peas have sprouted, you can just use the regular peas, soaked overnight. Sprouting takes about 3 to 4 days, quite a long process.
8 Comments
An easy recipe, will try it this weekend to make my hubby happy . thanks
Hi,
can i use frozen peas~???
hi mullai,
I tried ur pachai pattani kurma it came out really super. Taste good.
Thanks
Nice recipie…
Just like Joyce, even I tried with some veggies (carrort + beans) and it came out very well. Unknowngly I have addded more cocunut (half cocunut) then it become little sweet, to adjust I have added 1 and half spoon of Red chilli poweder, then it balanced and very good. Mullai thanks for this recipe.
Hi Mullai,
Very nice recipe thanks.
hi Mullai
In this recipe, while cooking the green peas( i have the one in yellow color), what to do with the skin of peas that comes off after boiling? the skin will also be mixed with the gravy?
Thanks in advance
gayu
Hai Ms.Mullai,
As per your narration and pic’s i tried this vegetable kurma with more of vege’s like mushroom, carrots, potato, green peas. It came out really well. My husband could’nt resist licking his finger at the end. We had it for idli’s yesterday and saved some for today’s chapati’s. Thx for such a nice posting. Continue to help learners like us.
very nice, thanks for the recipe