Recipe CookBook

Onion Kachori

Cooking Time: 40 minutes

Serves 7-8

Ingredients:

300 gms maida (all-purpose flour)

1/4 tsp cooking soda

50 gms moong dal (green gram),soaked for 1 hr

2-3 onions, chopped

4 green chilies, chopped

A pinch of garam masala

1/4 tsp saunf (fennel seeds)

50 gms besan (gram flour)

2 tbsp amchur powder

Few sprigs of coriander leaves, chopped

Salt to taste

Oil for frying

Method:

1-Mix maida, salt, cooking soda, 2 tsp oil and make a dough by adding little water. Keep aside.

2-Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan and fry the saunf, chopped green chilies, onions until golden brown.

3-Also add besan flour and fry for a while.

4-When a nice aroma appears from besan flour, add soaked moong dal. When the dal is tender, add garam masala, amchur powder, salt, chopped coriander leaves and stir well.

5-Remove from heat and allow to cool.

6-Make big lemon-sized balls from the above dough. Take a ball into your palms, press a little and stuff the dal mixture in the middle of the ball.

7-Seal the edges with little water and again form a ball in the shape of kachori.

8-Fry these kachoris in hot oil until golden brown and serve hot with any chutney.