Green Peas Stir Fry/Pattani Poriyal

Again one of the very easy and quick stir fry dish if you have frozen peas sitting in your refrigerator. Rasam rice and Peas poriyal is like comfort food for us. The dish is simple and tasty and will keep you wanting for more. Easy lunch box side dish for rice.

Green Peas Poriyal/Pattani Poriyal

Ingredients

Serves - 4
Spice Level - Moderately Spicy
Prep Time - 5 minutes
Cook time - 10 minutes

Frozen/Fresh Peas - 2 Cups
Onion - 1 Large , chopped well
Dry Red chilli - 4-5
Hing - 1.2 Tsp
Jeera/Cumin - 1 Tbsp
Mustard - 1 Tsp
Urad dal - 1 Tsp
Salt - as per taste
Oil - 1 Tbsp

Method

Boil a cup of water, simmer flame and add the frozen peas to it. Let the peas get cooked for about 5 minutes.Switch off flame once peas is cooked. Drain the water and keep the peas aside  If using fresh peas, cook it as you would usually do.

Heat oil in a kadai. Add hing. Add mustard, wait for it to crackle, add urad dal and jeera and let them roast to a light brown. Break the red chillies and add them in too, saute for a few seconds. Toss in the chopped onion now and saute till translucent. Add the peas and salt at this stage and saute well for 5 minutes. Keep stirring in between.Taste to see the salt level, add more if needed now.Saute till you feel the rawness of the peas disappear and it is mixed well with the tempered ingredients.Switch off flame.

Serve with steamed rice and rasam.



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