Banarasi Nimona Recipe

August 26, 2020

- Gujrati Food,
- Indian Food
Difficulty: easy

Delicious Banarasi Nimona Recipe

Best & Super Healthy winter dish you will have this year. Speciality from Uttar Pradesh, Nimona – a dish made from fresh green peas. You will really enjoy this sabjee, I promise.

Preparation Method of Banarasi Nimona

Ingredients

Oil (Preferably Mustard Oil).
1/2 tsp cumin seeds (Jeera).
1/4th cup coriander.
2-3 garlic cloves
a small piece of ginger.
2-3 green chillies
1/2 lemon
1 cup potato chopped in cubes and fried a pinch of asafoetida.
Salt
1 tsp Turmeric powder.
1 big tomato chopped.
200 gm of green peas – crushed in mixie.
1 cup green peas.
1/2 tsp garam masala.

Methods

Take a pan
Take some oil
Add cumin seeds (jeera). 1/2 tsp Most important part of Nimona is a special Coriander chutney made from 1/4th cup coriander leaves, few garlic cloves, a small piece of ginger, few green chillies & 1/2 lemon juice – all churn in mixie to make chutney – keep it ready
Keep a cup of fried potato cubes ready
Cumin seeds are crackling, time to add a pinch of asafoetida and the coriander chutney we had churned earlier.
Saute the mixture
Add some salt and 1 tsp of turmeric powder
Once chutney gets cooked properly, add a cup of chopped tomatoes.
Cook till tomatoes get softened.
Now add 200 gm of crushed peas
Mix well, cover the lead and let get cooked for 5-10 minutes on slow flame.
Now add 1 cup of peas and fried potato cubes
Add 1 tsp garam masala.
Add 1 cup water
Again cover the lead and let nimona get cooked.
Nimona is ready.
Enjoy with rice or like a sabji… eitherways it’s an awesome dish you must have this winter.