Kitchen Tantra

Green Peas Raita:

Ingredients:

Green Peas 1 small cup
Yogurts 2-3 cups
Oil 1-2 spoons.

Wet-Grind These:

Cashewnuts 4-6
Fresh grated coconut 3-5 spoons
Green chilies 2-3
Salt
Yogurts 1/4 cup.

For Tempering:(optional)

Oil few spoons
Mustard seeds 1/2 spoon
Cumin seeds 1/4 spoon
Asafoetida 1/4 spoon
Urad dal 1/2 spoon
Curry leaves few.

Method:

Steam cook fresh/frozen green peas for about 5-7 minutes. Maybe adding little salt to this steaming water will be a good idea. Set aside.

Now wet grind cashews, coconut, green chili, salt and 1/4 cup of curd.

Combine steamed peas and wet-ground above paste in yogurd. Mix them well.

In a shallow frying pan...heat oil and add sesonning items and wait till they pop.

Then run this above sesonning over mixed cucumber-yogurts set-up.

Serve chillied or at room temeprature as a side dish.