Description
Very healthy sour-spicy curry mixing boiled white peas (Matar) without oil with raw onions, tomatoes, green chilies, massive spices and lemon juice on the spot.
Restaurants serving Matar Kulcha (White Pea Curry and Bread, Street Style)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- White peas
- Kulcha(Bread)
- Onion
- Tomato
- Green chili
- Lemon
- Chaat Masala
Instructions
- [For
- Servings/Ingredients] 200g salt-boiled white peas, 1/
- red onion,
- tomato,
- green chili,
- ginger clove,
- tsp each roasted cumin, Chaat Masala, chili powder,
- lemon,
- Kulchas (bread).
- Prepare a giant brass pot packed with yellow white peas (Matar) salt-boiled completely oil-free finishing fluffy.
- Upon each order, scoop piping hot Matar into a bowl with a ladle, heavily adding minced raw red onions, fresh tomatoes, vivid-heat green chilies, julienned ginger.
- Sprinkle roasted cumin powder, Chaat Masala, black salt, chili powder, powerfully squeezing 'Tight!' a halved raw lemon.
- Vigorously stir overall while slightly mashing beans with a spoon, completing sour-spicy refreshing healthy bean paste. Generously top this zero-oil light bean on fluffy bread (Kulcha) butter-warmed on a griddle, waking up to the intense lemon acidity—golden street meal.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Chaat Masala、Cumin、Black salt
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Boiled soybeans (as sub for texture and bland taste)
Pairing
Cold water、Sweet soda
Trivia
[Hardcore] If 'Chole' is 'heavy brown curry' slow-boiled in oil/spices, 'Matar' is 'sour light yellow curry' tossing raw veg/lemon into boiled beans. In Delhi alleys, bicycle stalls carrying these giant brass pots (Matka) cause huge morning lines.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Top bread (Kulcha) heavily with the very light oil-free bean paste, eating for breakfast while waking up to the intense lemon acidity!
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