Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chickpea spinach pearls in peanut rice and cucumber peanut raita. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chickpea spinach pearls in peanut rice and cucumber peanut raita using 38 ingredients and 24 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chickpea Spinach Pearls in Peanut rice And Cucumber Peanut raita:
- Get For Making Chickpea and spinach pearls:
- Take 3/4 cup chickpeas
- Get 2 cups chopped spinach
- Prepare 3/4 cup freshly prepared cottage cheese
- Prepare 2 tsp cornflour
- Prepare 2-3 bread slices
- Take 2 tsp oil
- Take 1 onion chopped
- Prepare 1 inch ginger
- Prepare 1-2 tsp chopped garlic
- Take 1-2 green chilli chopped
- Get 3/4 tsp cumin seeds
- Make ready To taste Salt
- Prepare As required Oil for deep frying
- Prepare For making the Rice:
- Take 4 cups cooked rice
- Make ready 4 tsp peanuts
- Prepare 3 tsp grated coconut
- Make ready 2 tsp oil
- Make ready 1 tsp chopped garlic
- Get 2 dry red chillis
- Take 1/2 tsp Chana dal
- Get 1/2 tsp urad dal
- Make ready 1/2 tsp sesame seeds
- Take 1 tsp punch phoran
- Prepare 2 tsp peanuts
- Take 7-8 curry leaves
- Take To taste Salt
- Take For making Raita:
- Prepare 1 cup freshly prepared thick curd
- Prepare 1 grated cucumber
- Take 2-3 tsp coarsely powder roasted peanuts
- Take 1/4 inch ginger
- Make ready 1 green chilli
- Get To taste Salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp oil
- Take 1/4 tsp punch phoran
- Get 3-4 curry leaves
Few flavours cool the palate like cucumber and yoghurt. This classic raita is bound to become a fast favourite. Put the grated cucumber in a clean tea towel then roll up tightly and wring out all the excess liquid. Stir the yoghurt, mint, garlic and lemon juice together and season.
Instructions to make Chickpea Spinach Pearls in Peanut rice And Cucumber Peanut raita:
- Wash and soak the chickpeas overnight or 5-6 hours.
- Then boiled them in the pressure cooker with little amount of salt and water up-to 3 whistles and keep them aside.
- Heat a wok and put oil in it and then add cumin seeds, chopped garlic,onion, chilli and ginger in it.
- Saute it for sometimes till the raw smell has gone and then add the chopped spinach in it.
- Saute it and add boiled chickpeas in it and atlast add cottage cheese in it with required amount of salt. Mix it well.
- Cook it for 2 minutes and switch off the flame and allow it to cool down.
- After cooling down put them in a mixer grinder and make paste of it.
- Prepare the bread crumbs by toasting and grinding the breads to make the crumbs.
- Add the crumbs and cornflour with the chickpea spinach and cheese paste.
- Then make a dough from it. If required then add a tsp of oil.
- Make small sizes pearls from the dough.
- Heat oil in wok and deep fry the balls in it in medium flame.
- Now the pearls are ready and keep them aside.
- In another wok put oil, cumin seeds, dry chilli, garlic, peanuts, Chana dal and urad dal in it.
- Saute it and add grated coconut in it and again saute it in low flame for 2 minutes.
- Switch off the flame and allow it to cool down and then grind to make a powder.
- Again heat a pan and put oil in it. Then add punch phoran in it. When the mustard in the punch phoran crackle then add the curry leaves and peanuts in it.
- Saute it for 1 minutes and then add the cooked rice and mix it well.
- Then add the powder groundnuts mixture in it along with salt.
- Mix it well and add the pearls in it.
- Cover it and again cook it for 5 minutes in low flame. Now your Chickpea spinach pearls in peanut rice is ready.
- For preparing the raita: Beat the curd well and add the grated cucumber, coarsely powder peanuts, crushed ginger chilli and salt in it. Mix it well.
- Heat a tadka pan and put oil, punch phoran in it. When they crackle then add the curry leaves in it and switch off the flame. Mix it with the raita. Now your cucumber peanut raita is ready.
- Serve the raita with the rice.
Put the grated cucumber in a clean tea towel then roll up tightly and wring out all the excess liquid. Stir the yoghurt, mint, garlic and lemon juice together and season. Add the curry and paprika powder and sautΓ© for one minute longer. Add the spinach and tomatoes at the end, stir, and remove from heat. Serve with rice or naan, and garnish with chili flakes and lemon wedges.
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