Vegetable Momos with Spicy Chilli Sauce

Name: Vegetable Momos with Spicy Chilli Sauce
Yield: Serves 3 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 big carrot roughly chopped; 2 cups roughly chopped cabbage; 2 teaspoons pepper powder; to taste salt; 1 tablespoon oil; for the dough; 2 cups all purpose flour; to taste salt; water to knead; for the chilli sauce; 2 tomatoes roughly chopped; 2 garlic cloves; 6-8 red chillies soaked in water for an hour; 2 tablespoons oil; 1 teaspoon cumin powder; to taste salt

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Cabbage & Carrot Stuffed steamed momos with chilli sauce. The covering can be made with whole wheat flour too , making it perfect for a light filling dinner.

#dinner2

Cabbage & Carrot Stuffed steamed momos with chilli sauce. The covering can be made with whole wheat flour too , making it perfect for a light filling dinner.

Heap of Spice @cook_12476959

#dinner2

Cabbage & Carrot Stuffed steamed momos with chilli sauce. The covering can be made with whole wheat flour too , making it perfect for a light filling dinner.

#dinner2

Cabbage & Carrot Stuffed steamed momos with chilli sauce. The covering can be made with whole wheat flour too , making it perfect for a light filling dinner.

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Ingredients

Serves 3 servings

1big carrot roughly chopped
2 cupsroughly chopped cabbage
2 teaspoonspepper powder
to tastesalt
1 tablespoon oil
for the dough
2 cupsall purpose flour
to tastesalt
water to knead
for the chilli sauce
2tomatoes roughly chopped
2garlic cloves
6-8red chillies soaked in water for an hour
2 tablespoonsoil
1 teaspooncumin powder
to tastesalt

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Steps

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Method to make momos
in a food processor, add cabbage and carrots.
Pulse it to make pieces of the veggies and not a paste.
heat a tablespoon of oil in a pan, add the pulsed veggies.
Sautee for a couple of mins and add salt and pepper.
Dry out any excess water that is released after adding salt.
Remove from heat and cool completely.
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For the dough
in a big bowl, add flour and salt.
mix well and by adding little water at a time knead a stiff and soft dough.
keep it covered and set aside for 30 mins.
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To make momos
punch the dough and Knead it for a couple of minutes.
divide the dough in lemon sized balls.
roll the dough thin into a poori sized round.
add a tablespoon of the mixture and gather the ends to form a momo.
in a perforated pan, oils the sides and place 4-5 momos.
brush a little oil on the momos as well.
in a pot add water and bring it to boil.
place the perforated pot on top of the boiling water.
close a lid on the momos and steam for 10 minutes.
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For the chilli sauce
in a Mixer, grind tomatoes, garlic and soaked chillies to a smooth paste.
in a small pan, add oil and heat it up.
add the ground paste, salt and cumin powder.
sautee till the raw smell is out and you can see the oil floating on the top.
add water to thin down the sauce.
remove it into a bowl and enjoy with warm momos !!
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Video Recipe for Momos - https://youtu.be/19qvlxTUNj4
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Video Recipe for Chilli Sauce - https://youtu.be/8JcDBS1nAHg