Moong dal kachori recipe (मूंग दाल कचौरी रेसिपी) – the name is enough to generate water in mouth. Yes, today I am sharing a poular deep fried snack recipe from our Indian Cuisine. It is prepared with refind or maida flour, stuffed with moong dal and flavored with Indian spices.
It is an ideal recipe for breakfast and also a good tea time snack.
These kachoris are famous breakfast in Uttar Pradesh (Northern state of India) and always served with spicy aloo sabji. In other areas, it is served with yogurt, coriander chutney and tamarind chutney and garnished with chopped onion. These accompaniments gives a balance flavor of spiciness, sweetness and tanginess to this kachori. It can also be enjoyed plain or with tomato sauce.
Kachoris stuffed with dal have a longer shelf life as compared to other kachoris. You can easily stored these kachories for 2-3 days in an airtight jar.
Let’s go on to the moong dal kachori recipe as described in the post below. It is a must try recipe for kachori lovers!
- 200 gm Maida Flour
- 2 tbsp Oil
- to taste Salt
- 5o gm Mung Lentil (soaked for 4 hours)
- 1/2 tsp Asafoetida
- 1 tsp Red chili powder
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 2 tsp Coriander Seeds (coarsely crushed)
- 1 tsp Black Pepper (coarsely crushed)
- To taste Salt
- 1 tsp Garam Masala
- 5 Cloves (coarsely crushed)
- 1 tbsp Oil
- First of all, we mix Maida flour, oil and salt in a bowl for making dough.
- Now add some water in it and knead it. The dough should neither very tight nor very soft.
- Cover it with damp muslin cloth and let it rest for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile we will prepare stuffing mixture to stuff in kachori.
- Heat 1 tbsp oil in a kadahi or wok.
- Add all the spices and mung lentil in it.
- Also add a little amount of water so that all the spices will stick with mung dal. We need dry mixture at final stage, so don’t add too much water.
- Now mix it well, cover the lid and let this mung lentil cook on medium flame for 5 minutes.
- An aromatic stuffing mixture is ready. Switch off the flame and let it cool.
- Make medium sized balls from the dough and flatten each ball between palms.
- Stuff it with mung lentil mixture, seal it properly .
- Again flatten it between palms.
- Heat oil in a kadahi and deep fry all the kachoris on low flame until golden brown.
- Spicy, flavorful amazing kachoris are ready. Serve these kachoris hot with tamarind chutney and coriander chutney.
- You can also serve kachori with either sweet yogurt or Rajasthani Kadhi or Aloo-chola.
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