Batani Kattu with Sesame seeds.

on Friday, December 19, 2008


Ingredients:

  • White peas-11/2cup(soaked overnight and pressure cook it).
  • Drumsticks-6pieces(boil them in water with little salt and keep aside)
Masala:
  • Onion -1 large.
  • Redchillies-5no.
  • Jeera-1/2 tspoon
  • Garlic flakes -4 no
  • Sesame seeds(nuvvulu)-2tbspoons
Grind all the above ingredients into fine paste by adding little water.

Tempering:
  • Mustard seeds-1/2 tspoon
  • curry Leaves-few
  • Onion -1 small (cut into large cubes)Or u can use sambhar onions.
  • Oil -1tbspoon
Procedure:
  • Take a thick bottomed vessel,add oil and then tempering.
  • Fry onions till they turn tranparent.
  • Now add masala paste and fry it few minutes till the raw smell goes.
  • then add boiled peas , drumsticks,salt and water if necessary(Check for gravy consistency) and let it boil for 10 min in medium flame.
  • Serve hot with steamed rice.
Note:
Sometimes the gravy will not come thick this is because of quality of sesame seeds,if this is the case you can mix 1tbspoon of rice powder in little water seperately and in the last mix into the boiling curry.

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