Matar Batata Bhaji – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Heat up oil in a pan. Add finely chopped onion and fry for about 6-7 minutes until onion turns light golden in color.
• Add finely chopped tomato, ginger-garlic paste, coriander powder, goda masala and res chili powder.
• If you don’t have goda masala, you can use garam masala.
• Mix well and for fore about a minute.
• After frying for a minute add 2-3 tbsp water and mix well.
• Cover and cook for about 4-5 minutes until tomato cooks well and mixed with onion.
• At intervals, if you feel masala is getting dry, add a little water and cook again.
• Add blended dry coconut. You can roast and then blend the dry coconut.
• You can also use 2-3 tsp vatan of fresh coconut, green chili and coriander.
• Add roasted peanut powder. Mix everything well together.
• Take potatoes and peel them. Cut the potatoes into small pieces.
• Add potatoes and fresh matar. Mix well.
• Potato and matar should get good coating of spices.
• Cover and cook for just about 2 minutes.
• Remove the lid and mix well again.
• Add water, salt and gudh. You can skip gudh if you don’t like. Mix well.
• Cover and cook on medium heat for about 20-25 minutes.
• At the intervals, remove the lid and stir the sabzi so that the spices won’t stick to the bottom of the pan.
• After about 20 minutes check if the potato and matar are well cooked.
• If matar gets wrinkles form all sides, it means it is cooked well.
• Turn off the gas.
• If you want to make dry matar batata bhaji, then add little water and steam it.
• You can also cook this sabzi directly in cooker until 1 whistle.
• Garnish with lots of finely chopped coriander. Marat batata bhaji is already.
• Matar batata bhaji goes well with bhakari especially bajra bhakari.
• You can have this with rice too.