Delicious Indian Street Food Instant Pot Ragda Pattice (Potato Cakes served with white pea curry) is a healthy yet tasty way to eat chaat!
Today’s recipe is a fun one! Ragda Pattice are Indian street food which involves crispy potato cakes (Aloo Tikki) served with white pea curry made in Instant Pot and with spicy green chutney and sweet Dates chutney. Its a complete meal in itself.
Growing up I never even heard of this as this is not at all common in Northern India from where I come from. India being a diverse nation has tons of different food each special to that certain region. In Northern Indian we make similar kind of white pea curry and serve it with kulchas ( round flatbreads) which are so so good!
After marriage, I got introduced to this at my in-laws and since then I absolutely enjoy this way of eating white pea curry – served over crispy aloo tikki.
This recipe has few essential ingredients ->
- White Pea curry ( called matara or vatana)
- Aloo Tikki ( Crispy pan fried potato cakes)
- Green cilantro Mint chutney
- Sweet Date Tamarind chutney
- Chopped onions, tomatoes, green chilies, cilantro
- Fine Sev (thin chickpea flour fries)
Let’s GET STARTED ->>
Turn Instant Pot to saute mode. Add oil. Once hot, add bay leaf, cinnamon sticks and cloves.
Once they start to sizzle, add finely chopped onions.
Once the onions become translucent, add finely chopped tomatoes.
Once the tomatoes become mushy, add 1/2 cup water and cook for few more minutes.
Add all the seasonings. and mix.
Then rinse the soaked white peas (matara/vatana) and add to it.
Stir it all around, add 3 cups of water and cancel saute mode. Close the lid of instant pot, put it on sealing and turn on High Pressure for 20 minutes. Once timer turns off, let it release pressure naturally. Once all pressure is released, open the lid.
At this point taste taste, add green & date chutneys and whatever more seasoning you feel missing. When I was ready to serve I ended up adding almost 3/4 cups of water more to get the right consistency. You want it little soupy so if you add water towards the end, make sure to taste and adjust spices as well. Also mash some peas with the back of your spoon/laddle which gives a creamier consistency.
Meanwhile get your aloo tikki ready. Boil 5 large potatoes (this will make about 15 aloo tikkis ). You can boil in instant pot or stove top or microwave like I did. For boiling potatoes in microwave , clean your potatoes undre running water, prick them using a fork and place on a deep plate/bowl or ziplock bag with little water. Keep in microwave for 6-8 minutes.
Peel and grate boiled potatoes and add seasoning in there.
Mix with hands, roll them into patties.
Cook them in little oil or you can shallow fry or even deep fry them if that’s what your heart desires!
Tada! Crispy on top and soft inside.
Assemble. Place few spoonfuls of white pea curry / ragda onto a plate. Place 1-2 aloo tikkis on top and add more curry. Add both green & date chutneys, onions, tomatoes, green chilies if using and sev.
DEVOUR!!
- FOR CURRY ->
- 2 cups white peas (vatana / matara) soaked overnight in water
- 1 Tbsp oil
- 8 cloves
- 2 bay leaf
- 1" cinnamon stick
- 1 cup onion, finely chopped
- 1 cup tomato, finely chopped
- ½ cup water
- Salt to taste
- 4 tsp garlic paste
- 1.5 tsp ginger paste
- ½ tsp red chili powder ( I added less because of my little daughter but feel free to add as much/less you want as per your spice level)
- 1 tsp Garam Masala
- 2 tsp amchoor ( dry mango powder or lime juice)
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp Dhaniya powder ( coriander powder)
- ½ tsp cumin powder (jeera powder)
- ½ tsp haldi (turmeric)
- 1 tsp poppy seeds (khus khus)
- 3 cups water
- ¾ additional cup of water if needed
- 3 tsp spicy green chutney
- 5 tsp sweet date chutney
- FOR ALOO TIKKI ->>
- 5 large potatoes, boiled, peeled and grated
- Salt to taste
- 2 tsp ginger paste
- 1 tsp green chili paste
- 2 Tbsp rice flour ( or add breadcrumbs or poha) for crispy aloo tikki
- ¼ tsp haldi (turmeric)
- ASSEMBLY ->
- Spicy cilantro mint chutney
- Date tamarind chutney
- chopped oinions
- chopped tomatoes
- chopped green chilies or serranos
- chopped cilantro / mint
- fine sev
- RAGDA/ WHITE PEA CURRY ->>
- Turn Instant Pot to saute mode. Add 1 Tbsp oil. Once hot, add bay leaf, cinnamon sticks and cloves.
- Once they start to sizzle, add finely chopped onions.
- Once the onions become translucent, add finely chopped tomatoes.
- Once the tomatoes become mushy, add ½ cup water and cook for few more minutes.
- Add all the seasonings. that is salt, garlic paste, ginger paste,red chili powder, garam masala, amchoor, sugar, coriander powder, cumin powder, turmeric, poppy seeds and mix. Cook till raw smell of spices go away.
- Then rinse the soaked white peas (matara/vatana) and add to it.
- Stir it all around, add 3 cups of water and cancel saute mode. Close the lid of instant pot, put it on sealing and turn on High Pressure for 20 minutes. Once timer turns off, let it release pressure naturally. Once all pressure is released, open the lid.
- At this point taste taste, add green & date chutneys and whatever more seasoning you feel missing. When I was ready to serve I ended up adding almost ¾ cups of water more to get the right consistency. You want it little soupy so if you add water towards the end, make sure to taste and adjust spices as well. Also mash some peas with the back of your spoon/laddle which gives a creamier consistency. Also you can add finely chopped fresh cilantro if you have some, I had none so skipped.
- ALOO TIKKI ->>
- Meanwhile get your aloo tikki ready. Boil 5 large potatoes (this will make about 15 aloo tikkis ). You can boil in instant pot or stove top or microwave like I did. For boiling potatoes in microwave , clean your potatoes undre running water, prick them using a fork and place on a deep plate/bowl or ziplock bag with little water. Keep in microwave for 6-8 minutes.Peel and grate boiled potatoes and add seasoning in there.
- Mix with hands, roll them into patties.
- Cook them in little oil or you can shallow fry or even deep fry them if that's what your heart desires!
- Tada! Crispy on top and soft inside.
- ASSEMBLY ->>
- Place few spoonfuls of white pea curry / ragda onto a plate. Place 1-2 aloo tikkis on top and add more curry. Add both green & date chutneys, onions, tomatoes, green chilies if using and sev.
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Lovely recipe . Saw it after Many years
Lovely recipe . Saw it after Many years