Green Peas Masala

This is my mom's recipe. I have grown up eating it. She said, she had created it keeping in mind the flavor of green peas masala served
along with porotta in restaurants. May be that was long back coz I remember eating it from my childhood.

My mom used to serve this as sidedish for chapati and poori but after marriage I learned that it could be paired with puttu and pathiri as well. 

I was in a hurry and carelessly stacked the poori's, by the time I was ready to click all my poori's had deflated.

Ingredients 

• Green peas (dried ones)  -  1/2 cup
• Onion  -  1 small
• Tomato  -  1 small
• Coriander powder  -  1 1/2 tsp
• Red chilly powder  -  3/4 tsp
• Turmeric powder  - 1/4 tsp
• Salt  -  to taste

To grind

• Coconut  -  1 cup (loosely packed ) 
• Turmeric powder  -  a pinch 
• Sauf  -  1/2 tsp
• Garlic  -  2 pods

To temper

• Mustard  -  1/2 tsp
• Oil  -  2 tsp 

Garnish 

• Curry leaves  - 1 spring
• Coriander leaves  - 1 tbsp 

Method

• Soak green peas overnight. 
• In a pressure cooker add green peas along with roughly chopped onion, tomato, masala powders and salt. Cook for 2 to 4 whistles depending on the green peas used. Remove from heat.
• Crush Sauf and garlic and keep it aside.
• Grind together coconut and Turmeric to a fine paste.
• Open the cooker add coconut paste and the crushed sauf and garlic. Keep it back on flame. Check for salt and continue cooking till the curry thickens. 
• Add curry leaves and coriander, cook for 1 more minute and switch off the flame.
• Heat oil, add mustard, let it splutter. Add to the curry. Serve hot.