Chickpea Spinach Pearls in Peanut rice And Cucumber Peanut raita
Chickpea Spinach Pearls in Peanut rice And Cucumber Peanut raita

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chickpea spinach pearls in peanut rice and cucumber peanut raita. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chickpea spinach pearls in peanut rice and cucumber peanut raita using 38 ingredients and 24 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chickpea Spinach Pearls in Peanut rice And Cucumber Peanut raita:
  1. Take For Making Chickpea and spinach pearls:
  2. Get 3/4 cup chickpeas
  3. Make ready 2 cups chopped spinach
  4. Take 3/4 cup freshly prepared cottage cheese
  5. Get 2 tsp cornflour
  6. Get 2-3 bread slices
  7. Take 2 tsp oil
  8. Take 1 onion chopped
  9. Get 1 inch ginger
  10. Take 1-2 tsp chopped garlic
  11. Make ready 1-2 green chilli chopped
  12. Get 3/4 tsp cumin seeds
  13. Prepare To taste Salt
  14. Make ready As required Oil for deep frying
  15. Make ready For making the Rice:
  16. Prepare 4 cups cooked rice
  17. Get 4 tsp peanuts
  18. Get 3 tsp grated coconut
  19. Make ready 2 tsp oil
  20. Prepare 1 tsp chopped garlic
  21. Make ready 2 dry red chillis
  22. Prepare 1/2 tsp Chana dal
  23. Get 1/2 tsp urad dal
  24. Prepare 1/2 tsp sesame seeds
  25. Get 1 tsp punch phoran
  26. Get 2 tsp peanuts
  27. Get 7-8 curry leaves
  28. Prepare To taste Salt
  29. Get For making Raita:
  30. Take 1 cup freshly prepared thick curd
  31. Prepare 1 grated cucumber
  32. Make ready 2-3 tsp coarsely powder roasted peanuts
  33. Get 1/4 inch ginger
  34. Take 1 green chilli
  35. Prepare To taste Salt
  36. Take 1/2 tsp oil
  37. Get 1/4 tsp punch phoran
  38. Prepare 3-4 curry leaves
Steps to make Chickpea Spinach Pearls in Peanut rice And Cucumber Peanut raita:
  1. Wash and soak the chickpeas overnight or 5-6 hours.
  2. Then boiled them in the pressure cooker with little amount of salt and water up-to 3 whistles and keep them aside.
  3. Heat a wok and put oil in it and then add cumin seeds, chopped garlic,onion, chilli and ginger in it.
  4. Saute it for sometimes till the raw smell has gone and then add the chopped spinach in it.
  5. Saute it and add boiled chickpeas in it and atlast add cottage cheese in it with required amount of salt. Mix it well.
  6. Cook it for 2 minutes and switch off the flame and allow it to cool down.
  7. After cooling down put them in a mixer grinder and make paste of it.
  8. Prepare the bread crumbs by toasting and grinding the breads to make the crumbs.
  9. Add the crumbs and cornflour with the chickpea spinach and cheese paste.
  10. Then make a dough from it. If required then add a tsp of oil.
  11. Make small sizes pearls from the dough.
  12. Heat oil in wok and deep fry the balls in it in medium flame.
  13. Now the pearls are ready and keep them aside.
  14. In another wok put oil, cumin seeds, dry chilli, garlic, peanuts, Chana dal and urad dal in it.
  15. Saute it and add grated coconut in it and again saute it in low flame for 2 minutes.
  16. Switch off the flame and allow it to cool down and then grind to make a powder.
  17. Again heat a pan and put oil in it. Then add punch phoran in it. When the mustard in the punch phoran crackle then add the curry leaves and peanuts in it.
  18. Saute it for 1 minutes and then add the cooked rice and mix it well.
  19. Then add the powder groundnuts mixture in it along with salt.
  20. Mix it well and add the pearls in it.
  21. Cover it and again cook it for 5 minutes in low flame. Now your Chickpea spinach pearls in peanut rice is ready.
  22. For preparing the raita: Beat the curd well and add the grated cucumber, coarsely powder peanuts, crushed ginger chilli and salt in it. Mix it well.
  23. Heat a tadka pan and put oil, punch phoran in it. When they crackle then add the curry leaves in it and switch off the flame. Mix it with the raita. Now your cucumber peanut raita is ready.
  24. Serve the raita with the rice.

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