Ragda patties

Ragda patties is a popular fast food snack. It is usually found at places or stalls that offer chaat-based items like belpuri or panipuri. Main ingredients in this dish are, as u must have already guessed, the ragda and the patties. Ragda is prepared by boiling dried green peas in water along with flavouring agents like turmeric powder, asafoetida, and salt until they are almost dissolved. The patties are pan-fried and are mashed potato cutlets. Just before serving 2–3 patties are covered with the stew-like ragda and are garnished with finely chopped onion, coriander leaves, sweet tamarind chutney, and some spicy chutney (optional).

This is an excellent snack though for me it is a meal in itself (I like it so much that I hate to have anything else after that).

Ingredients:

For patties:

3 large potatoes

3-4 green chillies (+/- to taste)
1/2 piece of ginger

1/4 bunch Cilantro

1 tsp sugar

Juice of 1/2 Lemon

Salt to taste

For ragda

1-2 cup green dried peas soaked overnight

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

1 pinch asafoetida

salt to taste

To garnish

Onions – chopped finely

Cilantro - chopped finely

Cumin powder

Chaat masala

Sweet tamarind chutney

Process:

For patties:

Boil the potatoes and mash it well. Add green chillies, ginger, cilantro, salt, lemon, and sugar and mix well. Then divide the potato dough into small portions, I had about 8-10 small round portions. Put the potato mix on your palm and flatten it into a small patty. Heat oil on a flat skillet. When it starts sizzling, put the patties and shallow fry them on each side on medium heat for 2-3 minutes till they turn golden brown. Let it cool on paper towel to drain the excess oil.

For ragda:

Pressure cook the soaked green dried peas. Pour it in a thick bottomed pan and add turmeric, asafoetida, and salt to it. Let it cook on medium heat for roughly 5 minutes. Then mash some of the green dried peas in the gravy to make it thick and to give it a nice consistency.

Assembling ragda patties:
Put 2-3 potato patties in a deep bowl. Add ragda on top of it generously so that the patties is immersed in the ragda completely. Add 2 tsp of tamarind chutney and garnish it with onions, cilantro, jeera powder, and chat masala. Serve hot.