Forgotten Recipe from the Indian Kitchen- Dadpe Pohe

We all are familiar with Poha but not a lot of us are familiar with this lesser-known Maharashtrian cuisine.

Some recipes are worth coming back to, it's like revisiting your grandma’s cookbook and taking out some precious recipes from it. Recipes that we can show this generation of burgers over homemade food. So that these secrets remain preserved from generation to generation.

Association of food in Indian families is nothing short of valued inheritances. Your mother inherited from her mother and you from your mother.

Traditional recipes will be passed on to you by your grandmother & mother in the same way the “Khandani Kangans” is passed on to the new generation.

So I decided to write a blog on one such recipe which I learned from my mom and she from hers. Without taking much ado to let’s move on to the recipe

Take a look at the ingredients.

1 bowl of flattened thin rice flakes(Patla Poha)

1 onion finely chopped

2–3 green chilies finely chopped

1 cup peanuts (Singdana)

5–6 curry leaved

2 tablespoon oil

1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds

1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder

Salt to taste

1 teaspoon sugar

2 tablespoons of Curd

Pomegranate seeds (optional

(You can also take freshly grated coconut, Buttermilk)

How to make it

Take the flattened rice in a blow and slightly making it a little wet by taking some water in your hand. (You can take some water in your hand and sprinkle it until the rice flakes get slightly wet)

(Remember not to make it too wet otherwise it will be mushy)

Now add finely chopped onion and chilies

Add salt and sugar and 2 tablespoons of Curd to it

As I said you can also you freshly grated coconut or buttermilk. This is basically done to bring wetness to the rice flakes so that they don’t taste hard or uncooked.

Now take 2 tablespoons of oil in a pan add 1/2 teaspoon of mustard seeds and let it temper. Then add some peanuts to it and saute it until they turn little dark brown (do not burn them).

Add some curry leaves and turn off the flame Now add turmeric powder and temper it on your Poha

Now mix all the ingredients with the hands or spoon well. If you Pomogrante at home you can also add that to this

Garnish your dish with fresh coriander and coconut (optional)