Ragda with patties

Ingredients for Ragda:
Green vatana or green batani – 3 cups
Potatoes – 4 medium
Tamarind pulp – ¼ cup (chinatapandu rasam)
Onion – 1 large
Tomato – 2 medium sized
Mint – 1 handful (optional)
Green chilies – 4
Dhaniya powder – 3 tbsp
Garam masala – ½ tsp
Chilli powder – ½ tsp

Ingredients for Patties :
Potatoes – 3 medium
Besan – 2 tbsp
Salt
Oil to fry the patties

Making Ragda :
Soak the green vatana before night, pressure cook vatana and potato (cut into 2 inch cubes) until they become tender.
Now take 1/3 qty of boiled vatana and grind it until almost it becomes a coarse paste.
Mash half the qty potatoes and keep the rest aside.
In a kadai, add 2 tbsp oil, splutter jeera then add chopped onions followed by diced tomatoes and chopped mint and slit green chilies…fry it until onions get tender. Add the tamarind pulp let it boil for 3-4 mins….. now add the boiled vatana and the paste then cubed and mashed potatoes followed by all your powders…. Dhaniya, garam masala, chili powder, salt and turmeric. Then add water depending on the consistency u like.
Cover it and cook for 12- 15 mins approximately.

Making Ragda patties :
For patties boil the potatoes….. mash it thoroughly until u don’t see anymore pieces.
Now add salt and besan. Mix everything add make lemon size balls from it meanwhile heat a frying pan … add a tsp oil to it. Make patties and fry them on the pan until almost it turns brown on both the sides adding little oil when ever needed.

Notes

Serve ragda with patties adding finely chopped onions and of course squeeze some lemon juice on top….
And as everybody knows ragda tastes best when it’s steaming hot...

Tomato Rasam(using tomato paste)

Ingredients:
Tomato paste – 2 tbsp
Water – 3 cups
Tamarind leaves – 4 to 5
Dhaniya powder – ¼ tsp
Sambhar powder – ½ tsp
Coconut powder – ¼ tsp
Salt
Black crushed pepper – a pinch or two
1 garlic clove crushed with ¼ tsp jeera
Curry leaves, oil and jeera for popu

Making Tomato Rasam :
Now… be patient you are gonna need lots of time and energy to make this and of course u r gonna need expertise……haaa just kidding…..
Using your hand… mix water and tomato paste in a sauce pan, add all other ingredients except for crushed garlic and popu…. Let it boil for around 5 mins, then add crushed garlic and boil for more 5-8 mins.

Transfer it into a bowl now in same sauce pan do popu and add it on top of rasam.