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Gashi Variations  From: www.imissthatfood.com            

Ingredients
* 1/3 coconut grated
* 3 roasted red chillies
* tamarind a little less than a marble.
* 10-12 grains of methi roasted
* salt to taste
* 2 teaspoon oil, mustard seeds and curry leaves.

Method
Green peas gashi can be made with the above masala with the
onion seasoning.
Cook green peas with salt. When cooked, add the masala and
season. A potato can be added while cooking peas so that the
curry blends well (smooth consistency). A fine masala enhances
the taste of the curry
A similar ghushi can be made with dry peas. If dry peas are used it
should be soaked overnight and then cooked in a pressure cooker.
Gashi can also be prepared with black or kabuli channa. Channa
should be soaked in water overnight with 1/4 teaspoon soda
bicarbonate. White chana cooks in 12- minutes. Black chana takes
30 ins to cook. Channa should be cooked after washing.
Seasoning with oil mustards seeds and curry leaves.
Bendi is slightly more spicy than gashi. If you add a couple more
chillies and a little more tamarind.The masala should be fine.
Seasoning is with garlic and oil. Bendi can be prepared with
tingalevra bagde horse gram etc. Can be just washed and cooked.
Raw jackfruit, yam, mage etc can be added after cooking the
grams.
Bendi can also be prepared with vali or (climbing spinach) or red
bhajji.