Peanuts Potatoes Recipe for fasting | Moongfali wale Aaloo for vrat recipe
This peanuts potatoes recipe is known as upawas batata bhaji in Marathi and known as farali sukhi bhaji in Gujarat.
In Maharashtra, this potatoes veggie recipe with peanuts (moongfali in hindi) is mostly prepared on fasting days. In case you aren't aware, Upawas or upavas means fasting, batata means potato and bhaji means vegetable / veggie. If you want a translated Hindi name for this recipe you may call it as Vrat wali Moongfali Aaloo ki Sabji.
About Peanuts Potatoes or Vrat wale Aaloo ki Sabji
There is a saying in Marathi, “Ekadashi Duppat Khashi” which means you eat twice than any other day (or you end up eating twice) on this Ekadashi day (an auspicious Day in Hindu Calendar) on which people do fasting. Some people may choose these fasting days to detox their body by not eating anything and some may end up eating twice than normal days.
Sometimes I think, on what basis these items were identified and allowed for fasting by our elders, what was the thought behind it? Was it to detox the body or eat something simple by making it tempting 😉.
Anyways, I don’t want to think too much because I like these fasting recipes. Especially sabudana khichdi and peanuts potato veggie.
This peanuts potato veggie is awesome and is mostly prepared for fasting days, but I think you can prepare anytime and you don’t have to wait for any fasting day to arrive for this amazing snacks. You may pack this in your lunch box for snacks time or you may have this peanuts potatoes with any roti or use as a stuffing for sandwich.
If you are looking to have this on fasting day, you may choose to serve this with Rajgira Roti or Puri or Singhara Roti. But, just having a bowl of this Moongfali wale Aaloo can keep you full for your rest of the day.
Try this nice peanutty potatoes recipe or Moongfali wale Aaloo for vrat recipe if you haven’t tried it before.
I have a simple Coconut Chutney recipe which can be served with this Vrat wale Aaloo recipe.
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- 8 Potatoes (medium sized - around 500gms)
- 1/2 tablespoon Clarified Butter (Ghee) (thick ghee)
- 1 teaspoon Cumin Seeds
- 10 Green Chilli (finely chopped)
- 80 grams Peanuts Powder
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Sugar
- 1 tablespoon Fresh Lemon Juice
- 2 tablespoons Coriander (finely chopped)
Pressure cook potatoes for 3 to 4 whistles until they are cooked completely.
Only time required is for Pressure cooking potatoes and allowing them to cool down completely.Finely chop green chilies and coriander. Take half lemon and squeeze lemon juice (around 1 tablespoon) and keep it aside as we need them at later stage.
Once potatoes are cooled down, peel off potatoes and cut potatoes into medium sized chunks.
In kadhai, heat ghee then add cumin seeds and allow them to splutter.
I have used ½ tablespoon thick consistency ghee, you may use lesser quantity as well. If you like, you can use peanuts oil also instead of ghee if you are preparing this recipe for fasting. On any other days, you may cook this recipe in normal cooking oil. But, preferable is ghee because this peanuts potatoes recipe tastes awesome when cooked in ghee.
Then add finely chopped chilies and saute for a minute.
I have used lots of green chilies but you may choose to use lesser if you prefer it to be less spicy.
Now add potatoes, mix well and cook for 5 minutes on medium heat.
After 5 minutes, add peanuts powder, salt, sugar and mix well.
Sugar makes this recipe tasty. Anything without salt is tasteless, similarly, some recipes without adding smaller portion of sugar would also lack in taste. So adding sugar is important, but if you don’t like sugar you may skip it.Now close lid and cook for another 5 minutes on medium heat.
Finally turn off flame. Add lemon juice, chopped coriander and mix well.
Peanutty potatoes / peanuts potatoes recipe is ready in just few minutes. Please do try this recipe if you haven’t before. It really tastes amazing.