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Ghugni

Bong Eats’ ghugni combines whole dried yellow peas, potatoes and coconut in a spiced curry finished with onion, chilli, tamarind pulp and Bhaja Moshla.

About Ghugni

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Bong Eats’ ghugni is a Bengali snack of curried whole dried yellow peas. The source also records its popularity across Eastern India and Bangladesh, without claiming a single origin.

The peas are soaked, drained and boiled gently with water, part of the salt and some sliced onions. They should soften while remaining whole; their cooking water is reserved for the curry.

Coconut slices fry golden in mustard oil and ghee, then are set aside. Whole spices temper the same fat before the remaining onions, potato cubes and tomatoes are cooked.

Crushed garlic and green chillies, ginger paste and a water-based ground-spice paste season the pan. The same peas and reserved cooking water join it, followed by the remaining salt and sugar; the curry reduces before slit green chillies and the fried coconut return.

Bhaja Moshla, chopped onion, chopped green chillies and tamarind pulp garnish the finished ghugni. The author serves it piping hot, with whole peas in a thickened, slurpy curry.

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Dish type: Snack
Preparation: Read the preparation
Rinse and soak the peas in the named water, drain, then boil gently with separate water, part of the salt and sliced onion until soft but unbroken. Strain and reserve the cooking water. Cube potatoes, slice onion and coconut, chop tomato, and crush garlic with green chillies. Fry coconut in mustard oil and ghee, remove, then temper the same fat with the whole spices. Brown the remaining onions, fry potatoes and soften tomatoes. Add garlic-chilli and ginger pastes, then the ground spices mixed with separate water. Fry, using a splash of the reserved pea water if needed. Fold in the same peas, add the reserved water, remaining salt and sugar, and reduce. Return the fried coconut with slit chillies, rest covered briefly, garnish with Bhaja Moshla, chopped onion, chopped chillies and tamarind pulp, and serve piping hot.
Serving presentation: Piping hot in the selected serving instruction

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Ingredients in Ghugni

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Onionbase
Tomatosauce
Garlicseasoning
Gingerseasoning
Green Chilliseasoning
Cuminseasoning
Coriandergarnish
Dried yellow peasbase
Yellow peasbase
Vegetable Oilcooking medium

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Origins & food traditions

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Countries

India

Cuisines & regions

Bengali Cuisine

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Countries & places: India
Cooking traditions: Bengali

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Ghugni