Girmit – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Heat up a pan on medium heat.
• Add peanuts and roasted them well.
• Transfer the peanuts into a bowl.
• Heat up oil in the same pan.
• Add mustard seeds and let them pop up.
• Add cumin seeds and let them splutter
• Add curry leaves, onion and fry until onion cooks nice and soft.
• When onion turns a little soft add green chile, tomato and fry until tomato cooks nice and soft.
• Add turmeric powder and mix well.
• Add a little water to adjust the consistency.
• Mash the tomato a little.
• Blend roasted chana dal into fine powder in blender.
• Add tamarind pulp, jaggery, salt, chana dal powder and mix well.
• Cook on medium heat for another 2 minutes.
• Chutney or masala for girmit is already.
• Take churmure and add about a spoonful masala, roasted chana dal powder and mix everything well together.
• While serving add churmure into a serving dish and add finely chopped onion, tomato coriander leaves, roasted peanuts and fine shev.
• You also can add roasted peanuts if you want.
• Mix masala with churmure just before serving. Do not keep it ready before hand or else the churmure will become too soft