Matar ki kachauri

Name: Matar ki kachauri
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: 8 kachauris
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup maida; few ajwain seeds; Few black cumin seeds; 1/8 cup melted ghee; as required water for kneading dough; as per taste salt; 1 cup peas washed; 1/2 tsp cumin seeds; 1/4 cup water for cooking peas; 1 pinch turmeric powder; 1 tsp sugar; 1 tsp ginger chopped; 1/2 tsp ghee for cooking peas; as required refined oil for frying

Richa Vardhan @apnirasoi

Mumbai

#dals
The tongue tickling kachauris have stuffing of smoothly blended cooked seasonal peas with ginger and some spices.
Making these kachauris is easy and involves four steps, make filling, make dough, packing the stuff into dough and frying.

Richa Vardhan @apnirasoi

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Ingredients

20 minutes

8 kachauris

1 cupmaida
fewajwain seeds
Fewblack cumin seeds
1/8 cupmelted ghee
as requiredwater for kneading dough
as per tastesalt
1 cuppeas washed
1/2 tspcumin seeds
1/4 cupwater for cooking peas
1 pinchturmeric powder
1 tspsugar
1 tspginger chopped
1/2 tspghee for cooking peas
as requiredrefined oil for frying

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Steps

20 minutes

1

Take maida in a bowl, add 1/8 cup ghee, salt, ajwain and black cumin seeds, mix well.
Adding water gradually knead it to make a soft dough. Keep it aside, keep covered for 10-15 minutes. Divide the dough into 8 equal size balls.
2

Heat ghee in a kadahi, add 4-5 cumin seeds, let it crackle, add a pinch of turmeric powder, peas and salt, immediately add water, cook covered for 5 minutes on low flame.
3

Remove the lid, peas should have become soft, saute for another 2-3 minutes and let the remaining water in kadahi dry, add sugar and let it melt and peas be shrunk.
Switch off the flame and take the cooked peas in a plate, let it cool.
4

Add cooked peas, cumin seeds and ginger into a grinder and grind it very smoothly without adding water.
(Don't add water otherwise you cannot fill this into the dough, it takes time to blend smooth, so have patience and try blending in intervals)
5

Once you reach the smooth consistency, start filling this into balls(dough) one by one.
Roll into circular shape and deep fry. Serve hot with sweet tomato chutney and pickle of your choice.