Chef Ajay Chopra Recipes
Pithaud Cake With Masala Green Peas And Kadhi By Chef Ajay Chopra
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Ingredients
- Gram flour 50 gm
- Ghee 15 gm
- Breadcrumbs 5 gm
- Turmeric 2 gm
- Salt 5 gm
- Curd 10 gm
- roast cumin seeds 10 gm
- coriander seeds 50 gm
- whole red chillies 20 gm
- grind coarsely
- For masala peas
- Fresh green peas 50 gm
- onion chopped 10 gm
- Ghee 5 ml
- tomatoes chopped 5 gm
- Cumin seeds 1 gm
- Ginger chopped 5 gm
- green chillies chopped 2 nos.
- Coriander powder 5 gm
- Red chilli powder 3 gm
- Turmeric powder 2 gm
- Salt 5 gm
- fresh coriander leaves chopped 10 gm
- Lemon juice 5 ml
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Instructions
- For green masala, heat ghee in pan, add cumin seeds and let it crackle.
- Add chopped onion, ginger and green chillies and sauté well.
- Add tomatoes, green peas and red chilli, coriander and turmeric powders. Cook until the green peas are done.
- Add salt and finish with lemon juice and chopped coriander leaves.
- For the pithaud cake, whisk curd and gram flour together
- Add turmeric and kadhai powder, salt and mix well (it should be thick like a batter).
- In a kadhai, heat ghee, add the above mix and cook on a slow fire.
- When it becomes a little thick and leaves sides of the kadhai, remove from fire.
- Take a 1-inch deep grease tray, add this curd mix and let it cool.
- Cut into round shapes with a mould and grill it for 2-3 minutes from the both sides.
- For the kadhi, combined all the ingredients of the kadhi and leave it on fire to reduce it.
- When thick, turn off the gas and cool it.
- Arrange the pithaud cake with the green peas masala on top and kadhi. Garnish with orange zest, basil leaves, coriander and dill leaves.