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Ghugni Recipe (Street-Style)

Madhushree Dutta
Recipe to make delicious Ghugni easily. Simple ingredients, instructions, and equipment to prepare Street-style Matar Ghugni at home.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine Bengali, Indian
Servings 4 servings

Equipment

  • 1 Induction Cooktop
  • 1 Kadhai

Ingredients
  

  • 200 g White Peas
  • 2 Potato large
  • 3 Onion medium
  • 2 Tomato large
  • 5-6 Cloves Garlic paste
  • 1 inch Ginger paste
  • tsp Cumin seeds
  • 1 tsp Turmeric powder
  • 2 Bay leaf
  • 2 Green chilis
  • 4 Dried Red Chili
  • Mustard oil
  • Salt to taste
  • Sugar to taste
  • Mustard Oil
  • 2 tbsp Coriander leaves
  • 1 tsp Lime juice

Instructions
 

Soak the white peas

  • First, wash the white peas properly.
  • Next, soak them overnight.

Prepare the veggies

  • Next, wash, peel, and cut the potatoes in cubes. Wash and chop the tomatoes and onions finely.

Make a paste

  • Take the cloves of garlic, ginger, dried red chili, and green chili.
  • Put them in the grinder and make a fine paste.

Pressure-cook the peas

  • Now, take the soaked white peas and potato cubes in a pressure cooker.
  • Add water and salt to taste to it.
  • Pressure cook them until 1 whistle on high flame. Then lower the flame and let it simmer for about 10 minutes.

Grind the cumin seeds

  • While the white peas and potatoes are getting cooked, take a mortar and pestle or sil batta and grind 2 tsp of cumin seed with some water.
  • Make it into a fine paste.

Fry the onions

  • After 10 minutes, take the pressure cooker off the flame and allow the pressure to release naturally.
  • Next, take a kadhai or a pan and add mustard oil.
  • Let the oil heat until it smokes a little. To it, add the bay leaves and ½ tsp of cumin seeds.
  • Sauté them until they crackle and then add the finely chopped onions.
  • Fry the onions until they turn golden in color.

Add the paste

  • Next, add the ginger, garlic, green chili, and dried red chili paste to the kadhai or pan.
  • Combine everything nicely and let them fry until the raw smell is gone.

Add the tomatoes

  • Now, add the finely chopped tomatoes to it.
  • Stir everything well and then add turmeric powder and salt to taste.
  • Fry everything well until the tomatoes turn soft and mushy.
  • To this add a bit of sugar to enhance the flavors and to balance out the salt.

Add the cumin seed paste

  • When the oil separates out of the masala, add the cumin seed paste.
  • Combine everything nicely. Keep the flame on medium.

Add the white peas

  • Stir consistently and then add the boiled white peas and potatoes with the water.
  • Combine all the ingredients and take a taste test.
  • Now, let them cook until the consistency comes to a thicker side. Scrape from all the sides and stir occasionally.
  • Check if anything is needed and then add the lime juice.
  • Combine again nicely.
  • Turn off the flame and transfer the Ghugni into a bowl.

Garnish

  • Garnish it with the chopped coriander.
Keyword Bengali Recipe, Homemade Recipes, Street Food Recipe, Veg Recipes