Ragda pattice
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Ragda pattice is a popular Indian
fast food
or snack commonly found in Mumbai
. It is usually found at places or stalls that offer chaat
-based items such as bhelpuri
or panipuri
. This dish has two parts--ragda, a dried yellow pea
soup and pattice, a fried potato cutlet.
overnight in water to make them soft, hence easy to cook. After about 8 hours of soaking the old water is discarded. Add a fresh pan of water and pressure cook the peas along with flavoring agents such as haldi
(turmeric
powder) and salt until the peas are soft to touch. The peas are then mashed and fried with onions to make a "Ragda". Boiled mashed potato cutlets are added into this stew. Two or three of these pattice are covered with the stew-like ragda as a sauce and garnished with finely chopped onion
s, coriander
leaves, spicy chutney
and sweet sauce.
Indian cuisine
Indian cuisine consists of thousands of regional cuisines which date back thousands of years. The dishes of India are characterised by the extensive use of various Indian spices, herbs, vegetables and fruit. Indian cuisine is also known for the widespread practice of vegetarianism in Indian society...
fast food
Fast food
Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to the customer in a...
or snack commonly found in Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
. It is usually found at places or stalls that offer chaat
Chaat
Chaat is a term describing savoury snacks, typically served at road-side tracks from stalls or carts in India. With its origins in east India, chaat has become immensely popular in the rest of India and the rest of South Asia...
-based items such as bhelpuri
Bhelpuri
Bhelpuri is a puffed rice dish with various vegetables and a tangy tamarind sauce. It is a type of chaat, or small plates of savoury snacks, particularly identified with the beaches of Mumbai , such as Chowpatty. Bhelpuri is called Jhaal Muri in Kolkata...
or panipuri
Panipuri
The golgappa also known as panipuri पानीपूरी, , pani ke pataashe, pāṇīpurī, pāṇī purī, term used in Western India, phuchka , or gup chup is a popular street snack in India. It is a round, hollow puri, fried crisp and filled with a mixture of water, tamarind, chili, chaat masala, potato, onion...
. This dish has two parts--ragda, a dried yellow pea
Pea
A pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the pod fruit Pisum sativum. Each pod contains several peas. Peapods are botanically a fruit, since they contain seeds developed from the ovary of a flower. However, peas are considered to be a vegetable in cooking...
soup and pattice, a fried potato cutlet.
Preparation
Ragda is prepared by soaking white peasPEAS
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overnight in water to make them soft, hence easy to cook. After about 8 hours of soaking the old water is discarded. Add a fresh pan of water and pressure cook the peas along with flavoring agents such as haldi
Haldi
Haldi may refer to:* Haldi Hindi/Punjabi/Urdu/Gujarati name for the spice turmeric* Haldi River, a West Bengal river* Ḫaldi, an Urartian god* Haldi, Estonia, village in Estonia* Haldi, a Swiss family name, originally from the Saanen region...
(turmeric
Turmeric
Turmeric is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is native to tropical South Asia and needs temperatures between 20 °C and 30 °C and a considerable amount of annual rainfall to thrive...
powder) and salt until the peas are soft to touch. The peas are then mashed and fried with onions to make a "Ragda". Boiled mashed potato cutlets are added into this stew. Two or three of these pattice are covered with the stew-like ragda as a sauce and garnished with finely chopped onion
Onion
The onion , also known as the bulb onion, common onion and garden onion, is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The genus Allium also contains a number of other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion The onion...
s, coriander
Coriander
Coriander is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae. Coriander is native to southern Europe and North Africa to southwestern Asia. It is a soft, hairless plant growing to tall. The leaves are variable in shape, broadly lobed at the base of the plant, and slender and feathery higher on the...
leaves, spicy chutney
Chutney
Chutney is a a condiment used in South Asian cuisine that usually contains a spice and vegetable mix.Chutneys are wet or dry, having a coarse to fine texture. The Anglo-Indian loan word refers to fresh and pickled preparations indiscriminately, with preserves often sweetened. At least several...
and sweet sauce.