Hariyali Poha | Poha in Green Masala is an easy, delicious, and healthy breakfast recipe made with beaten rice or flattened rice flavored with green masala (chutney) made with onions and seasonings like chilies, lemon, and curry leaves. It can not only be eaten for breakfast but also as an evening snack or lunch box.
I have grown up eating poha for breakfast at least once a week, along with idli, dosa, upma. My mom usually used to sneak in a few vegetables while making poha to make it more healthy.
My husband is a great fan of poha, he can eat it all day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. So I keep trying to make different varieties like Indori poha, kanda poha, or batata poha, and now our new favorite also got added hariyali poha.
I recently heard about hariyali sabudana khichdi, hariyali pav bhaji, so I thought of trying out poha with an extra zing of the green masala paste. It turned out great. So whenever you plan to make poha, try this new poha made with green masala paste. I am sure you will love it.
Also, try my Poha Chivda (Savory Namkeen) recipe that you can relish as an evening snack with Masala chai.
How to Make Hariyali Poha
Gently rinse poha in a colander under running water 2-3 times until they soften, and then drain out all the water. When you press with your fingers, it should break easily. Keep it aside.
In a Blender, add green chili, ginger, garlic, and coriander leaves and blend smoothly to make a paste and keep aside.
Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a pan on medium flame, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves in it, and allow them to splutter. Now, add chopped onion. Saute onions until they are tender. It will take 2 minutes.
Now add green peas and green masala paste, saute well for 4-5 minutes until the raw smell of ginger-garlic goes away.
Now add soaked poha and mix everything gently.
Add salt to taste, lemon juice, roasted peanuts, coriander leaves, mix well, and serve hot.
Tips & Variations to make best Hariyali Poha
- To make poha, you can use medium to thick flakes variety. Thin poha is unsuitable because it will get mushy once we rinse it in water.
- You can make this poha in red or white variety poha.
- When preparing poha, after rinsing them, make sure to press a flake, if it crushes well, then it is good for cooking else, sprinkle some more water over it. See *Video for rinsing poha.
- You can add some finely chopped beans and spinach to make it more nutritious, healthy, and green.
- Make sure to saute green masala paste well else, it will smell raw.
- You can also garnish with some freshly grated coconut.
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Hariyali Poha|Poha in green masala
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups thick Poha/flattened rice/Beaten Rice
- ½ cup boiled green peas ( I used Frozen peas)
- ½ cup chopped onion
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
- ½ teaspoon cumin (jeera) seeds
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- 2 tablespoons roasted peanuts/groundnut
- salt as required
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoon coriander leaves for garnish
For Green Masala
- ½ inch ginger
- 2 cloves garlic optional
- 1 big handful coriander leaves
- ¼ cup mint leaves optional
- 2 green chillies
Instructions
- Gently rinse poha in a colander under running water 2-3 times until they soften, and then drain out all the water. When you press with your fingers, it should break easily. Keep it aside.
- In a Blender add ginger, garlic, green chili and coriander leaves and blend smooth to make a paste and keep aside .
- Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a pan on medium flame, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves in it and allow them to splutter.Now, add chopped onion. Saute onions until they are tender. It will take 2 minutes.
- Now add green peas and green paste, saute well for 4-5 minutes until raw smell of ginger-garlic evades away.
- Now add soaked poha and mix everything gently .
- Add salt to taste, lemon juice, coriander leaves and roasted peanuts and mix well and serve hot.
Notes
- To make poha you can use medium to thick flakes variety. Thin poha is not suitable because it will get mushy once we rinse it in water.
- You can make this poha with red or white variety poha.
- When preparing poha after rinsing them make sure to press a flake, if it crushes well then it is good for cooking else sprinkle some more over water over it. See *Video for rinsing poha.
- You can add some finely chopped beans and spinach to make it more nutritious, healthy, and green.
- Make sure to saute green masala paste well else it will smell raw.
- You can also garnish with some freshly grated coconut.
Nutrition
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sanjana biswas says
Tasted awesome
bhavana says
thank you sanjana 🙂
Andrew Macmilan says
I will try this at home.