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ragda patties

Ragda patties

This is another beautiful Mumbai street food to die for.The spicy sweet and sour ragda or yellow peas curry over potato patties make a one pot filling meal.The curry can be customized to taste by adding various sweet ,sour or spicy chutneys Over all a lip smacking dish to prepare for Sunday breakfast or evening snacks.
Course Appetizer, Breakfast
Cuisine East Indian, Indian, Maharashtrian
Keyword appetizer, breakfast, kid snacks
Prep Time 12 hours
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 6 days 12 hours 45 minutes
Servings 10 patties
Author indrani

Ingredients

Ingredients

  • Potatoes boiled 3 to 4
  • Green peas 1 cup boiled
  • Carrots and beet root grated 1 cup
  • All spice powder 1/2 tsp
  • Chopped onions 1 cup
  • Ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
  • Chickpeas flour or besan 1/4th cup
  • Coriander leaves a handful chopped fine
  • Green chilies 3 to 4 chopped fine
  • Oil 2 tbsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Red chili powder 1/2 tsp
  • Rice flour 1/2 cup

Instructions

Preparation

  1. Add oil in the pan and fry onions till light brown
  2. Add ginger garlic paste and saute.
  3. Add chilli powder and stir.
  4. Add all the boiled vegetables in the pan and stir thoroughly till they are all mashed and form a thick saucy consistency.Add salt
  5. Add chickpea flour and green chilies and coriander leaves and salt if required and  stir ,till they form a lump and leave the sides of the pan.
  6. Allow it to cool .
  7. Wet your palms and make small patties or cut them with cookie cutter to form heart shaped cookies.Roll on little rice flour or semolina.
  8. Fry on a hot pan smeared with little oil till they become brown on both the sides.
  9. Yellow peas curry
  10. Yellow peas (1 cup)
  11. salt
  12. Chopped onions (1/2 cup)
  13. Water containing tamarind pulp dissolved and strained (1 cup)
  14. red chili powder(1 tbsp)
  15. Jaggery or sugar (2 tbsp)

Preparation

  1. Soak the dry yellow peas over night .
  2. Boil them with 1 cup of water and salt  till one whistle or till they are not tender to the core.
  3. In the tamarind water add red chili powder and jaggery for a sweet and sour taste.
  4. Add this water to the boiled peas.Add chopped onions.

Green chutney

  1. Make a smooth paste of a bunch of coriander,mint,2 green chilies and 2 garlic cloves with salt to taste  and water to  form a green chutney of saucy consistency.

Assembling

  1. Keep two patties on the plate .
  2. Pour hot yellow peas curry from the top.
  3. Drizzle green chutney.
  4. Garnish with chopped onions and sev(fine fried noodles)