My first Meal

Mains

Introduction

About this Recipe

By: Mayuri

Source: Kitchen1112.com 

I had this friend once, she was amazing. She chose a great degree to study and oozed confidence, in a humble kind of way. One could say I idolized her a bit. We were sitting in a mutual friend’s apartment, I had just finished an intense day in the sculpture studio and as I fell into the couch I said “Yass, I could map a pot of my mom’s peas and potato curry right now.” Her immediate response was “Would you like me to make it for you now?”

Only a year ahead of me in life but she could clearly do anything. My diet at that point consisted of salads, sandwiches and many nights of packet pasta’s.

I stood up and marched myself to the nearest grocery store and bought a bag of frozen peas (they are the yummiest) and some potatoes. Headed home and cooked that meal the best I knew how. I never bought packet pasta again. Well, maybe.

Peas and Potato Curry

Servings

4

Prep:

5min

Cook:

20min

Difficulty:

Easy

Ingredients

  • pinch of whole cumin (jeeru)
  • pinch of mustard seeds (rai)
  • pinch of asafoetida (hing)
  • 1 dried red chilli
  • 1 cup frozen peas
  • 6 baby potatoes
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1/2 an onion
  • Sea or himalayan salt to taste
  • Pinch of tumeric
  • 1 tsp crushed ginger
  • 1 tsp crushed garlic
  • green chillies (to your discretion)
  • Coconut oil

Directions

Step 1

Prep: Soak peas in boiling water. Chop potatoes into fours and soak with peas (if you suffer from intestinal problems such as IBS try removing the potato skin after soaking and see if you feel a difference).

Step 2

Blend the tomatoes and onion.

Step 3

In a pot place a small amount of coconut oil as it heats place all the vagaar items (cumin, mustard seeds, asafoetida and dried chilli) and let it braise for a few seconds.

Step 4

Add in your potatoes and braise them for a few seconds.

Step 5

Add in your blended tomatoes and onions along with your salt, tumeric, ginger, garlic and chillies. Keeping it on medium heat allow it to cook for about 5 mins.

Step 6

Add in your peas and leave to cook for another 5 mins. Then lower the heat a little and leave to cook for about 10 mins. Add a little water as it cooks if it starts to dry out.

Step 7

In a small pan add some oil and mustard seeds let cook until it sizzles. Throw this over the steamed dokhra.

Step 8

Let cool and then cut into squares.

Step 9

Let it cool and then enjoy with either some fresh rotli or rice! YUM!