Description
Boiled Green Groundnuts / Peanuts are common street side food in many parts of India. Freshly boiled and salted green peanuts is a good snacking item on a cold evening or simply relish it as a quick evening tiffin by converting it to a light Peanut chat.
Green Peanuts are very hard to find here in USA, only some Indian stores sell them. Raw peanuts sold in most Supermarkets and Grocery Chains are dried and then sold in packing’s. Although dried peanuts can be still considered raw, it cannot be be termed as “Green Peanuts”. These though termed green are not actually green in colour, its the groundnut fresh from the ground(soil) is what they are.
Avitha Verkadalai / Avitha Kadalai / Boiled Peanuts / Green Raw Peanuts / Green Groundnuts / Boiled Verkadalai / Pachai Verkadalai
| Ingredients-1 | |
|---|---|
| 2 lb | Green raw peanuts |
| 2 tsp | Salt |
| 10 cup | Water |
| Ingredients-2 | |
|---|---|
| 1 no | Onion medium ( chopped) |
| ¼ no | Carrot (grated) |
| 6 stks | Coriander leaves (chopped) |
| ½ no | Green chili (finely chopped) (medium) |
| 1 tsp | Lemon juice |
| 2 pinch | Chat masala / red chili powder |
Instructions
Peanut Parade, marching towards the pressure cooker.
Wash the raw green peanuts in cold water, rinse nicely to get rid off all the mud. Fill a pressure cooker with water, add salt and raw peanuts and pressure cook up to 2 whistles. Let the steam release, open the cooker and adjust for salt. Normally these are very tender don’t even need pressure cooking, just boiling for 40 minutes over stove to will cook them. But if you think they need some more cooking , the just bring to one boil and simmer until soft and firm.
If using dried American variety peanut, then I would recommend soaking them overnight and then pressure cook upto 10 whistles. These are usually very big and takes longer to cook. Even after cooking they seem to be very firm and too solid. Heavy seasoning with salt required.
Peanut Chat: Remove the shell from the boiled peanuts, toss the boiled nuts with chopped onion, grated carrot, finely chopped green chili, coriander leaves, chat masala and lemon juice. Fill them in small paper potlums(packets) and serve in fancy manner.
Comments
13 responses to “Boiled Groundnuts”
I made it on friday for snacks……simply superb….
This is one of my fav snacks back in India. My mom used to prepare these on cold rainy days & we snack it hot while gazing at the rain, chatting with my sis. It brings back all those nostalgic memories
Thanks for the recipe mullai
hi mullai
its really great me and my hubby njoyd it 🙂 ur presentation is really superb by cing itself v feel like havg it
tried this evening…proved to be a good one for a rainy day…excellent one..nice presentation
mullai,
fantastic presentation….my mom used to make this for us…so parthathum amma gnabagam varathu, very nostalgic memory…….because my mom is not with us anymore….thanks a lot for the recipe
Kalakals Mullai..first pic is peanuts parade, was so funny..supera irruku..
chennaila anga anga idhu dhan kidaikkum …amma nyabagam vara madhiri..t.nagar nyabagam varudhu mullai….super..adhukku mela varthai irrukka?????divya…
Simple recipe-ya evalo super-aa koduthu irukkenga!!! Dominoes vilayaditte saapidanuma????
Very nice Mullai reminds me of chennai beach side verkadalai potlam..hehehe
Sadhana Raveen
Mullai,
Creative presentation. Rombave think panreenga to entertain us. Thnx for sharing.
mullai,
your pictures looks awesome, it make me hungry
interesting mullai ur presentation is always great. i try to follow ur footsteps
mullai fantastic pictures tempting to have some