Chura Matar Banarsi Style | Chooda matar recipe
Matar ka Chura is a traditional winter breakfast dish made with fresh green peas and flattened rice. This is such a delightful delicacy and also called by the other names Chooda Matar or Matar Poha.
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh green peas
- 1 cup poha/flattened rice
- 1 tbsp oil (traditionally made in desi ghee)
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 2 green chilies
- 8-10 cashews
- 1/4 tsp black pepper powder
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- Salt to taste
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Coriander leaves
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/4 cup water
Instructions
- Put poha in a sieve and wash it very well. The quantity of poha and other ingredients is given in the recipe card below. Keep aside this moist poha.
- Take a pan and add oil, cumin seeds, bay leaf, grated ginger and green chilies.
- Saute till ginger turns slightly brown.
- Add cashews and let them too turn slightly brown.
- Add green peas and roast them for a minute.
- Add water and mix.
- Cover and cook for 15 minutes.
- Check by pressing the peas that whether they are turned soft enough to eat.
- Add poha, salt, garam masala, black pepper powder, sugar, lemon juice and coriander leaves.
- Give them a good mix.
- Matar ka chura is ready. Enjoy.