Green Peas Masala

INGREDIENTS:

• 200 gm Green Peas, shelled
• 1 Medium Onion
• 1 Tbspn Ginger Garlic paste
• 1 Large Tomato pureed
• 1-2 Green Chilly, chopped finely
• 1 Tspn Cumin Seeds
• Pinch of Hing (Asafoetida)
• 1" Cinnamon
• 1 Tspn Garam Masala
• 8-10 Cashews
• 1 Tspn Sesame Seeds (optional)
• 1 Tspn Turmeric Powder
• Salt, as per taste

METHOD:

• Boil the green peas till soft. Alternatively, they can be shallow fried too.
• In a pan, heat oil/butter and add cumin seeds as well as cinnamon and a pinch of hing.
• After the cumin seeds stop crackling, add minced onions and saute them till golden brown.
• Add ginger garlic paste. After the raw smell vanishes, add the pureed tomato.
• Add turmeric powder and salt to taste. Stir occasionally till oil oozes out of the masala.
• Blend the cashew and sesame seeds to a smooth paste and add. Stir for a couple of minutes.
• Then add some of the broth (in which green peas were cooked). Bring to boil and add the peas.
• Let it cook on simmer till the desired consistency of the gravy is achieved.
• Green peas masala is ready to be devoured with a plate full of steaming plain/ jeera rice or as I like - with roti :D !!