Ingredients
- Idiyappam with Green peas curry – A tasty curry, goes well
- with Idiyappam (string hoppers)
- 100 ml / ½ cup / 4 oz (Indian standard measuring cup) dried
- green peas
- In a bowl, wash and soak green peas with 300 ml water. In a
- pressure cooker, boil soaked green peas (along with water in which it’s soaked) and ½ teaspoon
- salt. Final water level should be ½ - inch level above green peas in pressure
- cooker. Close the pressure cooker lid and cook until 2 quick whistles. Switch
- off the cooker and allow to cool naturally. Open the lid and check whether it’s
- cooked. If it’s not cooked and water level is reduced, add ¼ cup water and cook
- again for 1 whistle. Normally green peas will cook very fast and more than 3
- whistles will overcook green peas.
- Ingredients
- 6 tablespoon grated coconut
- ½ teaspoon red chilli powder or 4 dried red chillies
- ½ level teaspoon thick tamarind paste
- Make a smooth paste
- of above ingredients in a small mixer bowl. Keep aside.
- ½ teaspoon homemade meat masala powder or garam masala powder
- In a pan / karahi, heat oil on a medium heat. Add thinly
- sliced onions and fry till golden color on a medium heat.
- Add curry leaves and fry well for 1 minute.
- Add boiled green peas, coconut paste, adjust salt to taste,
- extra 50 - 75 ml water and ½ teaspoon
- garam masala powder. Mix all the ingredients well. Cover with a tight lid and
- cook on a medium to low heat for 10 minutes.
- Serve with idiyappam / appam / chapati ..
- Homemade Kerala Meat Masala powder (Recipe from Kuttanadan
- Ruchikal by Ashok and Meril)
- 3 tablespoon fennel seeds (perumjeerakam)
- 2 teaspoon cardamom (elakka) seeds from 18 cardamom, do not
- use skin
- 2 teaspoon cloves (grambu)
- 2 teaspoon or 4 small size star anise (thakkolam)
- 2 cinnamon sticks (karuvappata)
- 2 teaspoon khus khus (poppy seeds)
- Please select good quality spices. Gently wipe cinnamon
- sticks with a soft dry towel.
- Heat iron karahi /
- pan on a medium heat. Reduce the heat to
- low and gently dry roast above spices
- until light fragrant (approximate time 8 - 10 minutes on a medium to low heat).
- Keep aside to cool for half an hour.
- Transfer dry roasted ingredients into a small mixer bowl and make a fine powder and
- then sieve it through a fine sieve (now the net weight is 45 g). Store it in an
- airtight container (or in Tupperware dry storage box). ½ teaspoon meat masala
- powder required for egg curry and
- mushroom (2 servings, 2 boiled eggs or 200 g mushroom) and 1 teaspoon meat
- masala powder required for 500 g
- chicken / mutton preparation (for
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Idiyappam with Green peas Curry
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Recipe Summary & Steps
Idiyappam with Green peas Curry
- Idiyappam with Green peas curry – A tasty curry, goes well
- with Idiyappam (string hoppers)
- 100 ml / ½ cup / 4 oz (Indian standard measuring cup) dried
- green peas
- In a bowl, wash and soak green peas with 300 ml water. In a
- pressure cooker, boil soaked green peas (along with water in which it’s soaked) and ½ teaspoon
- salt. Final water level should be ½ - inch level above green peas in pressure
- cooker. Close the pressure cooker lid and cook until 2 quick whistles. Switch
- off the cooker and allow to cool naturally. Open the lid and check whether it’s
- cooked. If it’s not cooked and water level is reduced, add ¼ cup water and cook
- again for 1 whistle. Normally green peas will cook very fast and more than 3
- whistles will overcook green peas.
- Ingredients
- 6 tablespoon grated coconut
- ½ teaspoon red chilli powder or 4 dried red chillies
- ½ level teaspoon thick tamarind paste
- Make a smooth paste
- of above ingredients in a small mixer bowl. Keep aside.
- ½ teaspoon homemade meat masala powder or garam masala powder
- In a pan / karahi, heat oil on a medium heat. Add thinly
- sliced onions and fry till golden color on a medium heat.
- Add curry leaves and fry well for 1 minute.
- Add boiled green peas, coconut paste, adjust salt to taste,
- extra 50 - 75 ml water and ½ teaspoon
- garam masala powder. Mix all the ingredients well. Cover with a tight lid and
- cook on a medium to low heat for 10 minutes.
- Serve with idiyappam / appam / chapati ..
- Homemade Kerala Meat Masala powder (Recipe from Kuttanadan
- Ruchikal by Ashok and Meril)
- 3 tablespoon fennel seeds (perumjeerakam)
- 2 teaspoon cardamom (elakka) seeds from 18 cardamom, do not
- use skin
- 2 teaspoon cloves (grambu)
- 2 teaspoon or 4 small size star anise (thakkolam)
- 2 cinnamon sticks (karuvappata)
- 2 teaspoon khus khus (poppy seeds)
- Please select good quality spices. Gently wipe cinnamon
- sticks with a soft dry towel.
- Heat iron karahi /
- pan on a medium heat. Reduce the heat to
- low and gently dry roast above spices
- until light fragrant (approximate time 8 - 10 minutes on a medium to low heat).
- Keep aside to cool for half an hour.
- Transfer dry roasted ingredients into a small mixer bowl and make a fine powder and
- then sieve it through a fine sieve (now the net weight is 45 g). Store it in an
- airtight container (or in Tupperware dry storage box). ½ teaspoon meat masala
- powder required for egg curry and
- mushroom (2 servings, 2 boiled eggs or 200 g mushroom) and 1 teaspoon meat
- masala powder required for 500 g
- chicken / mutton preparation (for
curry and biryani).
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