Momos

Name: Momos
Total time: 3000 s
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 100 ml water; 50 ml cooking oil; 200 gm all-purpose flour; 50 gm green peas; 1/2 tsp cumin powder; 1 tsp tomato ketchup; 2 tsp white vinegar; 1/4 tsp sesame seeds

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Ingredients

50 mins

5 servings

for the dough:
100 mlwater
50 mlcooking oil
200 gmall-purpose flour
for the stuffing:
50 gmgreen peas
1/2 tspcumin powder
1 tsptomato ketchup
for the dip:
2 tspwhite vinegar
1/4 tspsesame seeds

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Steps

50 mins

1

Mix the flour with water until they thicken.
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Cover the dough with a sample cloth and leave to sit for 30 minutes fir gluten to develop on it.
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For the stuffing:
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Now, take a mortar & pestle and in it pour green peas and pulverise until the mixture becomes a little chunky.
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Up next, take a bowl and in it grate cabbage and all the aforementioned spices along with previously pulverised peas. Mix well.
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Heat a non-stick skillet and pour 2 tbsp of cooking oil and wait for it to come to a boil. Once it oozes, pour all the vegetable mixture and saute on high heat for a minute. You do not have make then golden brown, however, just soften them slightly.
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Season to taste with salt and pepper. Mix and cook for 1-2 more minutes till the water from the stuffing has evaporated.
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Mix well and set the filling aside to cool down. Let it come close to room temperature before using for best results.
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Now, it's time for the stuffing:
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Now, dust with some flour and roll the dough with a rolling pin, and make equal sizes of circular discs.
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Thereafter, fill-in each one of the pieces with the previously cooked veggies by leaving 1 centimetre gap from its surface and seal it by pleating the two sides.
Press the second half of the disc to the pleated half to create crescent shaped dumplings.
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Next, on an induction cooktop, take an induction-proof pressure cooker and in it pour 1/4th amount if water.
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Now, take an utensil that has small pores all across its base and grease the base with some cooking oil althoughout.
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Next, heat the cooker at a temperature of 120 °C and place the porous utensil on top of it. Therafter, arrange the dumplings in it by a tong and cover with a glass lid. Let each of their sides steam for 5 minutes.
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Once they are steamed completely, heat the same skillet and in the hot oil, gently drop the dumplings one after the other by a tong and keep frying them on medium heat till they are golden brown and crispy on all sides.
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Fry all the momos in batches this way. Then place them on an absorbent paper.
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Once done serve them with a basic dumpling dip or tomato ketchup.
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For the basic dumpling dip:
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In small bowl, pour 2 tsp of cornflour followed by 2 tsp of dark soy sauce, 2 tsp of white vinegar, 1 tsp of mustard oil, and sprinkle some sesame seeds. Mix well and your basic dip is ready.