Poha Recipe | Kanda Poha

On the off chance that there’s one ever-present breakfast dish in a Maharashtrian family, it must be the Poha. Poha recipe with its couple of variants like Kanda Poha, Batata Poha, Dadpe Pohe and Indori Poha – is the staple readiness with straightened rice, spices and flavors. The one with kanda implies there’s onions in the recipe, and the batata one would be an additional option of potatoes. Both are vegetarian and without gluten, and we love both.

What is Poha
The word Poha (plural: pohe) alludes to 2 things – the first is the fixing leveled rice itself and the subsequent one is the Poha recipe or the dish that is made with this specific fixing. Simple to recollect, make and tastes fab. No disarray there, isn’t that so?
As referenced above, both the fixing and dish are a very normal component in Maharashtra, as well as then adjoining Indian provinces of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Goa as well.

Fixings
For Preparing Poha
▢1.5 cups poha – thick assortment (leveled rice or dried rice)
▢1 teaspoon sugar or as required
▢salt as required
▢¼ teaspoon turmeric powder (ground turmeric)
Different Fixings
▢2 tablespoons peanuts
▢2 to 2.5 tablespoons oil – nut, sunflower or any unbiased oil
▢½ teaspoon mustard seeds
▢½ teaspoon cumin seeds
▢1 potato – medium-sized, slashed into little shapes
▢⅓ cup onions – finely slashed or 1 medium-sized
▢1 teaspoon green chilies – finely cleaved or 1 to 2 green chillies
▢8 to 9 curry leaves (medium to huge measured)
▢2 to 3 tablespoons coconut – new and ground, discretionary
▢2 to 3 tablespoons coriander leaves – cleaved (cilantro)

Arrangement
Pick the poha first of any garbage or little stones. Wash the poha pieces in clean running water in a sifter or colander two times or threefold.
Ensure that you don’t wash the poha pieces excessively or, more than likely they break and get soft. While washing, the poha chips ingest sufficient water and they become delicate.
The poha should turn out to be delicate yet stay in salvageable shape, entire and discrete. In the event that they don’t turn out to be delicate, add a sprinkle of water on them in the sifter and blend till they get relaxed.
Subsequent to washing, the poha chips ought to free their crunchiness and when you break them between your fingers, they ought to handily get squashed or pounded.
When the poha have relaxed pleasantly, sprinkle the turmeric powder, sugar and salt equitably on the poha. Tenderly blend in with a spoon or with clean fingers.

Broil the peanuts in a little griddle till they become crunchy with a couple of rankles on the nut skins. Put away.
Likewise strip the potatoes and slash them into little 3D shapes.

Making Kanda Batata Poha
In a weighty kadai, heat oil. Sauté the potatoes in medium hot oil till light brilliant and fresh. Mix them frequently for searing.
Eliminate the potatoes with an opened spoon and put away.
In a similar kadai, there will be some oil left. Add mustard seeds to the hot oil.
In the event that there is no oil, add 1 tablespoon oil and intensity it delicately and afterward add the mustard seeds.
At the point when the mustard seeds splutter, add the cumin seeds.

At the point when the cumin seeds pop, add the onions. Sauté the onions till they become clear and relax.
Presently add the curry leaves, slashed green chillies and broiled peanuts. Sauté briefly on low intensity.
Add the seared potatoes and afterward the flushed poha. Blend tenderly with the remainder of the sautéed fixings.
Cover the dish firmly with a top for the poha to get steamed for around 2 minutes on low intensity.
Eliminate the top and really look at the taste and assuming that necessary add more salt and sugar.
Switch off the intensity and cover the dish firmly with a top for the poha to get steamed for a couple of moments.
Eliminate the cover and trimming with hacked coriander leaves and ground new coconut.
Serve Kanda Poha hot with cleaved lemon pieces. The lemon juice must be pressed on the poha prior to eating it.
On the other hand, you could likewise follow this technique. Once the poha is cooked, sprinkle around 1 to 2 teaspoons lemon juice on it.
Blend and afterward decorate it with coconut and coriander leaves.

Enjoy 😊