Scale
Ingredients
For Dough
- 3 cups maida/all-purpose flour
- ½/ tsp black cumin seeds
- ½ tsp Carom seeds/Ajwain
- 2 tsp Ghee
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- salt
- water
For Stuffing
- 2 tsp oil
- ½ tsp carom seeds/Ajwain
- 2 big onion, sliced
- ½ tsp crushed coriander seeds
- ½ tsp cumin powder
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- salt
- 3 tsp roasted gram flour
Instructions
- In a bowl or a plat take maida or all-purpose flour, black cumin seeds, carom seeds, baking soda, salt and ghee.
- With your fingertips mix the ghee with the flour for a few minutes. You have to mix well, till you get a bread crumb like texture in the flour.
- Then add water and knead to a smooth dough.
- Cover the dough and let rest for 15 minutes.
- Heat a pan and add oil.
- Add carom seeds, sliced onion, crushed coriander seeds, cumin powder, red chilli powder, turmeric, salt, saute and stir for 3 minutes on low flame.
- Add roasted gram flour and mix well.
- Let the mixture cool down.
- Now make small balls from this mixture.
- After 15 minutes, lightly kneed the dough and divide the dough in equal portions.
- Take a portion of the dough and flatten it with the help of your fingers.
- Now place the mixture stuffing ball on the dough and bring the edges of the dough together and join them at the center. Excess dough can be pinched off and removed.
- Press and then flatten the kachori.
- Stuff and prepare all the Kachoris this way.
- Heat oil for frying and keep the flame to a low. when the oil is hot enough, you can add the kachoris.
- Fry on a low to low to medium flame till the kachoris become golden brown.
- Serve kachoris warm with chutney.