Buy White Peas (Safed Matar)

White matar (safed matar) is available as Tata Sampann Unpolished Safed Matar (500 g), Daily Good Unpolished White Peas / Matar / Vatana (200 g, 500 g and 1 kg), Town Grocer White Peas / Matar (500 g), Popular Essentials White Peas (500 g), and Halt White Peas Whole (500 g). Green dried peas from Daily Good and Sri Bhagyalakshmi are also stocked alongside.

White matar, also called safed vatana, is a dried whole pea used for curries and the filling in snacks like ragda pattice and matar chaat. It needs soaking before cooking, similar to other dried legumes, and is a different variety from the fresh green garden pea.