Recipe: Yummy Banarasi chura (poha) matar

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The main ingredients of this Indian Street Food are green peas and cilantro. In general, poha needs to be soaked in water before you prepare a dish. But you will have to soak them in milk instead of water in this case. You can cook Banarasi chura (poha) matar using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Banarasi chura (poha) matar

1. It's of chura(poha).
2. You need of matar.
3. You need of tomatoes.
4. Prepare of homemade garam masala.
5. It's of sugar.
6. It's of amchoor.
7. It's of cashews.
8. You need of kishmish.
9. Prepare of lemon juice.
10. Prepare of bay leaves.
11. It's of cloves.
12. Prepare of pepper corns.
13. It's of heeng.
14. You need of jeera.
15. It's of brinjal.
16. You need of desi ghee.
17. It's of Salt.
18. It's of red chilli powder.
19. You need of green chilli finely chopped.
20. It's of coriander leaves chopped.
21. It's of ginger grated.

Chura Matar ~ Banarasi style pokha with green peas. Uttar Pradesh is famous for its variety of street snacks like samosa, kachori and chaat. A street snack that deserves a special mention is the Banarasi Chura Matar aka Poha Matar (rice flakes with peas), which is very popular during the winter season when peas are abundant. Banarasi Chura Matar or Chooda Matar or Matar Poha recipe - A warm, savoury breakfast to ward off all the tensions for sometimes and to light up our mood!

Banarasi chura (poha) matar instructions

1. Boil green peas with 1sp sugar & pinch of salt..
2. Wash chura properly..
3. Mix, salt 1 tsp sugar, 1sp garam masala, amchoor powder, 1 tsp ghee & coriander leaves & cover it for 30 minutes.
4. Soak raisin in lemon juice..
5. Take a pan add ghee crackle 1/4 tsp heeng and1/4 tsp jeera, 2 cloves & peppercorns, 1bay leaf and boil peas, grated tomato, 2 tsp garam masala, ginger salt & sugar mix well..
6. Cut thick slice of brinjal on green peas &cover the lid cook in simmer flame for 5-6mnts.
7. After few minutes keep aside brinjal, stir fast peas & gas turn off..
8. Mix properly peas in Chura/poha & soaked raisin.
9. Add 1 tsp ghee fry cashew crackle leftover heeng, jeera, clove, peppercorns & bay leaf add chura matar in ghee..
10. Simmer flame for 5 mins & serve with chutney..

Just LOOK at that incredible colour, the texture, the freshness of the dish, how vibrant it is! Also known as Chura Matar, is a Banarasi twist on the usual Poha. It is a winter delicacy of the place though, when the markets are flooded with the winter produce - Green Peas/Matar. It is loaded with desi ghee, milk/cream and garam masala, making it very flavorful and very different from its Maharashtrian cousin Kanda/Batata Pohe. Chura matar is a delicious and healthy evening snack which is popular and made in many homes in Uttar Pradesh during the winters.