Motorshutir Kachuri

Description
Peas Kachori. Perfect comfort food for a winter morning. And if there’s a cup of hot chai to accompany it, that would be perfection perfected, no?

Ingredients

 * oil for frying kachoris

Filling

 * 500 gms peas
 * 25 gms ginger
 * 2 – 3 green chillies
 * 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
 * a pinch asafoetida (hing) powder
 * salt
 * 1 tablespoon oil

Kachori (pancake) dough

 * 1 kg flour:
 * ½ teaspoon baking powder:
 * salt
 * 2 tablespoons oil:

Filling

 * 1) Shell out the peas or use frozen ones and wash them.
 * 2) Add some salt, chopped ginger, chopped green chillies to the peas and blend into a fine paste.
 * 3) Add a little water if required.
 * 4) Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a skillet and drop the cumin seeds and asafoetida (hing) powder.
 * 5) When the cumin seeds begin to splutter, add the peas paste and keep stirring, until the water dries out and the oil starts separating.
 * 6) Keep aside and let it cool.



Kachori (pancake) dough

 * 1) Sift flour into a bowl.
 * 2) Add the baking powder, a little salt, and two tablespoons of oil in it.
 * 3) Mix well.
 * 4) Add water and knead into a tight dough of medium consistency (dough should be neither too soft nor too hard).

The grand finale: Making the kachoris

 * 1) Make small balls from the dough.
 * 2) Roll each ball within your palms, make a cavity and fill it with a teaspoon of the filling.
 * 3) Close the ball and smoothen it by rolling within the palms.
 * 4) Using a rolling pin, roll the balls out into small pancakes.
 * 5) Deep fry until golden brown.
 * 6) Serve hot with any chutney/pickle.

Recipe by (Lima) beans and Delhi Cha(a)t Blog
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