Vegetable Poha Recipe – Poha (aka flattened rice or beaten rice) is a perfect option for breakfast, snack (maybe for kids lunchbox also) or for a light dinner. There are many different variations that can be clubbed together with poha to make this recipe new and interesting every time.
Some varieties of this versatile dish include: kanda (onion) poha, batata (potato), poha, kanda-batata (onion-potato) poha and sing (peanuts) poha.
Vegetable poha gives a filling effect and it is healthy as well.
You may have a look at our Breakfast/Snacks Recipes –
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VEGETABLE POHA RECIPE
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Ingredients (1 cup = 240 ml)
For the Veggies
- 1 medium potato cut into cubes
- 1 small onion finely chopped
- ½ cup mixed veggies peas, corn, chopped carrots, capsicum
For the poha
- 1 cup poha
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric/haldi
- juice of ½ lemon (you can add more or less depending on your taste)
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- salt to taste
Tempering and other ingredients
- 2 tablespoon oil
- 1 broken dry red chili, deseeded
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds/rai
- 1 green chilli cut into 2 pieces/finely chopped
- ¼ teaspoon cumin seeds/jeera
- pinch of asafoetida/hing
- 5-10 curry leaves for tempering
- an inch piece of ginger grated
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric/haldi
- salt to taste
- 8-10 cashews chopped
- 8-10 raisins
Instructions
For the veggies
- Firstly, prepare all the veggies. Chop potato, carrots, capsicum.
- Steam all the vegetables (carrots, peas and corn). You can use a steamer or a pressure cooker to steam your vegetables. Alternatively, you can also boil your veggies in a covered bowl in a microwave for 6 minutes.
For the Poha
- Rinse poha with water in a strainer for a couple of times. This process is carried out to make our poha softened and also to clean them. Rinse gently. Make sure you do not rinse for a longer period of time, doing so will make your poha sticky.
- Add ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder, sugar, salt and lemon juice to the poha.
- Mix gently. keep aside.
Preparing poha
- In a pan, heat 2 tbsp oil. Add dry red chilli and mustard seeds.
- When the mustard seeds crackle, add green chilli, jeera, hing and curry leaves.
- Now add potato cubes. Saute for 1 minute and add salt and turmeric. Cover with a lid and cook for 7-8 mins or till potatoes are cooked.
- Then add onions, grated ginger, cashews, raisins and saute for 2-3 mins.
- Then add boiled veggies and capsicum. Stir well
- Then add the poha. stir and mix gently. After checking for taste, you can add more salt or sugar if required.
- Make sure that everything gets mixed evenly and cook on a low flame for 3 to 4 minutes. At this stage, if you find your poha to be dry, sprinkle 1-2 tablespoon water.
- You can garnish with coriander leaves.
- Serve poha with tea or buttermilk. Njoyeeee…
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