Poha

Poha is a recipe of Malwa region made from flat rice. The malwa region includes west of Madhya pradesh including part of Maharashtra, India.
Being from Indore, a lovely city, People relish Poha any time of the day. It is a very famous and most wanted break fast. When in Indore you do not need to search for a place to get poha. You see and you find it.

Did you know?

This easily digestible form of raw rice is very popular across Nepal, India and Bangladesh.

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Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:.
2 cups poha

2 tbsps vegetable cooking oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
2 green chillies, finely chopped
1 onion, finely chopped
1 large/2medium potatoes sliced very thin (optional)
1 Groundnuts or green peas (optional)
Pinch of turmeric powder
Lemon
Salt to taste
1 tbsps of sugar


For garnishing (optional any one of them)
Chopped coriander to garnish
Annar dana (fresh Pomegranate)

Method:

1. Wash Poha - Put the poha in a sieve and wash under running water for 2 minutes. Keep aside to drain. (Be careful, we do not want it too wet. Keep in under running water depending on how think and thin your falt rice is)
2. Keep the poha in a bowl and add Sugar on top of it. (water should be drained completely, you can identify when each piece of poha can get separated and they do not stick together). 

3. Heat the oil in a pan on a medium flame. Once the Oil is hot add the mustard seeds,and green chillies. 
4. Fry till the spluttering of chillies and mustard seed stops and then add the onion. Fry till soft , translucent and they turn brown in color.
5. Add turmeric and Salt
6. Add Potatoes, fry them till the time they get cooked. (optional)
7. Add peanuts or Groundnuts or till they get cooked (optional).
8. Once your potatoes or peanuts or Groundnuts are cooked you can add the poha in the pan.
9.  Mix it well and cover the pan with lid for 5 mins

Serve:
Serve Poha with raw onion, lehsun sew (or salted mixture if you do not get) and lemon.

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