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Mouth watering, delicious, tangy, hot, spicy! Rudaba aunty told me this recipe, my mom also told me her variation.

Ingredients:

For the ragda:
2 cups white peas (dry/ called ‘vatana’ in hindi) or 1 cup white peas + 1 cup garbanzo beans (chole/chana)
2 green chillis,
2-3 curry leaves,
2 tomatoes or 1 – 8 oz can tomato sauce,
ginger garlic paste,
corriander (dhania) powder,
chilli (mirchi) powder,
turmeric (haldi),
1/2 tsp mustard seeds(raai),
1/2 tsp cumin (jeera) seeds,
1/2 tsp garam masala

For the patties:
3-4 slices bread,
5-6 big potatoes, boiled, mashed
1/2 tsp cumin (jeera) powder,
salt, black pepper,
few tbsps semolina for dipping.

Garnish:
chopped onions,
chopped tomatoes,
chopped cilantro,
Tamarind Chutney,
Tikhi/Dhania Chutney,
Fine Sev (you can find this in Indian stores, or the Asian aisles in some Grocery stores)

Soak the peas and/or garbanzo beans in water overnight. Then boil/pressure cook them with some salt and turmeric.

Then in a small pan, put some oil, when it heats, put the mustard seeds. When they start splattering, put the curry leaves and the cumin seeds. Then put the chilli powder, dhania powder, and turmeric (just 1/2 tsp). After a few seconds, add the ginger garlic paste quickly, again fry a bit. Then add the tomato sauce quickly. Cook till you see oil floating/seperating.

Add this to the boiled peas. Boil everything together for sometime, and add some black pepper. Ragda part is done.

Now to make the patties. Sprinkle water on the bread slices, and then press them between the palm of your hands, and add them to the mashed potatoes. Add cilantro, salt, cumin powder and black pepper. Mix well. Make small balls and press them between your palms to get a cutlet/patties shape. Dip them in the semolina, and then shallow/deep fry them. Spread them over a kitchen towel to take out excess oil. The patties are done.

Now the final step is the assembly. First put the patties on a plate, usually 2-3 as one serving. Then put some ragda, some chopped onions, chopped tomatoes, spoonful of chutneys, and finally the fine sev. Finished!

Enjoy!

Note: (My mom also puts one chopped onion, 1 spoon ginger garlic paste, 1 tsp oil, 1 pinch baking powder, 1 tsp chilli powder, 1 tsp dhania powder in the pressure cooker while boiling. So if you follow this, you may have to alter the amount of spices in the other steps.)

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