“Green Peas (Vatana) With Sweet Potato (Kananga / Ratalu) Bhaji / Upkari” … A simple delicious seasonal upkari / bhaji, a side dish that goes very well with chapatti / roti / poori … Yummy Yumz ….......
** Green Peas is available in plenty during winter season and its already flooding the market. Though yet to be available in abundance, it has begun to enter all kitchens and rule the dishes as peas are everybody’s fav. Veggie. A versatile vegetable that can be mixed and matched with almost anything. You can prepare vegetable, pulav, parathas, samosas, bhaji, soups, you name it and peas are part of it already. So I will not go into the details of green peas as everybody knows about it. Sweet Potato is also a root tuber very well known all reound the world. So again, I will not run into the details. The addition of the two and preparation of bhaji goes very well with chapatti / roti / poori and is relished in this combination not only at functions but also in homes. So here is to the preparation of the simple upkari / bhaji.
** Ingredients :
Shelled Green Peas / Vatana : 3 heaped cups.
Sweet Potato / Kananga / Ratalu : 150 gms.
Mustard Seeds / Rai / Sasam : 1 tsp
Dry Red Chillies : 4-5
Curry Leaves / Kadipatta : 8-10
Hing / Asafoetida Powder : 1 tsp
Haldi / Turmeric Powder : ½ tsp
Oil : 1 tsp
Salt to taste
** You need approximately about 3 cups of ready fresh peas. Wash, drain, and keep them ready aside.
** Peel / slice off the skin portion of the sweet potato and cut them 1 inch sized cubes. Wash in plenty of water and keep it ready aside.
** Put the prepared green peas in a pressure cooker pan and spread it evenly on the pan. Top it with sweet potato evenly spread out. Now add in a cup of water and pressure cook on medium heat to one whistle only.
** Allow the pressure cooker to cool a little bit for about 5 minutes. Now gently with the help of tongs release the pressure from the cooker by tilting the pressure weight on the cooker. Be careful and do not stand on way of the steam.
** Open the lid carefully and allow to cool. Keep this ready aside. I use this method as I find cooking it this way faster and I get perfectly cooked peas. But you can prepare the same using kadai method too. I will mention the same below.
** In a thick bottomed kadai add in the oil and bring to heat. Once it is hot, lower the heat to minimum and add in the mustard seeds, when they begin to splutter add in the curry leaves, red chillies cut to pieces, hing, haldi and fry for a few seconds.
** Now add in the pressure cooked peas and sweet potato along with the remaining water if any in the cooker, salt to taste and mix well. Add extra water only if necessary. Cover with a tight lid and cook for 5 mins on low heat till well mixed and done. You can garnish the same with a tablespoon of freshly grated coconut, I have not added in the same.
** “Green Peas (Vatana) With Sweet Potato (Kananga / Ratalu) Bhaji / Upkari” is done and ready to be served. This tastes best when served with poori / chapatti / roti. But you may serve as side dish along with other dishes too. I served it with chapatti and spicy chicken pepper roast with methi leaves curry. If non vegetarian, try this combo which I have included in the blog back to back along with this one. You will love the awesome combination of dishes.
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