Khasta Kachori.
You can have Khasta Kachori using 20 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Khasta Kachori
- It's 500 gms of plain flour/maida.
- It's 100 gms of sooji.
- Prepare 100 ml of oil for moyan.
- Prepare As required of Water.
- It's 2 cups of soaked moong dal.
- You need 2 tbsp of besan.
- It's 2 tbsp of oil.
- You need 2 tbsp of finely chopped ginger.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of finely chopped green chillies.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of heeng.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of crushed whole coriander seeds.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of crushed fennel /saunf.
- You need 1 tsp of chilli flakes.
- It's 1 tsp of red chilli powder.
- You need 1/2 tsp of amchur powder.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of garam masala.
- It's 1 tbsp of chaat masala.
- You need 1 tbsp of powdered sugar.
- It's to taste of Salt.
- Prepare As required of Oil for deep frying.
Khasta Kachori instructions
- In a mixing bowl combine together maida, sooji, oil and salt, mix well with your finger tips, until becomes crumbly..
- Then by adding water little by little knead a medium soft dough, cover and keep it for half an hour to rest..
- In the meantime prepare the stuffing, for this heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan..
- Then add crushed coriander seeds, heeng and besan, roast them for 2 - 3 minutes..
- Then add chopped ginger and green chillies and cook for 2 minutes..
- Then add soaked moong dal and mix well, soak moong dal for at least 6 hours, then wash it properly and strain out the excess water..
- Cover and cook the dal until becomes soft, but not mushy..
- Then uncover it and add red chilli powder, chilli flakes, amchur powder, garam masala, crushed fennel, chaat masala, powdered sugar and salt, mix nicely..
- Roast the mixture further for few minutes, until it becomes dry, the stuffing is ready..
- In the meantime heat oil for deep frying, first heat on high flame, then make it medium..
- Now knead the dough once again for few seconds and make equal sized balls from the dough.
- In the same way make small balls from the stuffing mixture..
- Now take one ball of the dough and flatten it by rotating with your fingers into a small roti..
- Now place one stuffing ball in the center of the roti and seal it nicely from all the sides..
- Now roll this stuffed ball lightly with the rolling pin, it should be little thick..
- In this way make more kachoris..
- Now slowly slide the kachoris in the hot oil, one by one.
- Fry them on low heat, by turning them at regular intervals, until becomes light brown and crispy.
- When they are done then take them out on an absorbant paper.
- Always fry in small batches, like 4 - 5 pieces, so as to maintain the oil temperature.
- In this way make all the kachoris.
- You can have these with green chutney, tomato sauce, tamarind chutney, and can make dahi kachori chaat also.
- You can store them for 8 - 10 days, depending upon the weather conditions, cool down the kachoris completely before storing them.