Batata kees or Batatyacha kees |

Batata khees or Batatyacha khees is a Maharashtrian farali recipe usually cooked during shravan month /Navratri festival while fasting. It's a quick and simple snack or breakfast to make. 

Ingredients:

5 potatoes, peeled and grated 
½ cup roasted crushed peanuts 
2 finely choppedgreen chillies,
1 tsp cumin seeds(jeera) 
1 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp ghee 
1/2 tbsp lemon 
Salt to taste 

Method :

1) Wash and peel the potatoes. Grate the potatoes using the grater.

2) Remove the water and wash the potatoes thoroughly with water 3 times till the excess    
  starch is removed from it. Squeeze the water from it. 

3) On  grater potatoes add coarsely grinded peanuts,sugar,salt and mix well.

4) Heat ghee in a pan, add cumin seeds to it. Once they start to splutter add crushed           green chilli.Add lemon juice 

5) Then add mixture of grated potatoes Cover and cook till its half done.  

 Stir occasionally so that they do not stick to the pan. 

6) Cover and cook again, till it's done. 

7) Serve hot with fasting sweet lemon pickle and curd