RAGDA PATTIES

I love street food, be it pani puri, sandwich,pav wada or ragda patties.My favorite is bhel and ragda patties eaten on a cool summer evening.The whole idea was to go window shopping and stop by your favorite "bhelwalla" for bhel and ragda patties before heading home.
This is my version of making the ragda patties . Enjoy !

Ingredients

• 2 cups/katoris/measure dried yellow peas2. 5 medium sized potatoes.
• 1 large onion finely chopped
• 1.5 tbsp ginger paste
• 2 green chillis (ground to fine paste)
• 2 tbsp chopped cilantro
• 1/4 tsp asafoetida
• 1 tbsp garam masala
• 1 tbsp red chilli powder
• 1 tbsp cumin-coriander powder (dhana-jeera powder)
• 1 tsp turmeric
• 1 tsp. mustard seeds
• Salt to taste
• Oil to fry
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• Tamarind date chutney
• Cilantro to garnish
• Fine Sev to garnish
• Whipped yogurt

Method

• Soak yellow peas overnight. Pressure cook peas with baking soda until tender (peas to water ratio=1:2.5)
• Boil and mash potatoes
• Add ginger chilly paste,salt,turmeric powder and knead well to a smooth mixture.Check for taste.
• Make small patties and shallow fry in oil on medium heat.Roughly 2-3 mins. on each side.
• Remove onto a kitchen towel so that extra oil is absorbed.
• Heat oil in a pan. When oil is hot add mustard seeds and let them spluter. Add asafoetida.
• Add half the chopped onion and cook until onion is translucent.
• Add turmeric powder,dhana jeera powder,red chilly powder, garam masala and salt and stir for a few seconds.
• Add cooked yellow peas and cook until the mixture come to a boil or until all the ingredients are well integrated into the ragda(curry).

To Serve

• Arrange patties onto a shallow dish.
• Pour just enough ragda to cover the patties thoroughly but be careful NOT to drown them in ragda !
• Add few tablespoons of whipped yogurt, tamaraind date chutney.
• Add cilantro and Sev to garnish.