Indian Food & Recipes

Besan Kachuri (Gram flour kachori)

Ingredients:

• 400 gm white flour (maida)
• 200 gm gram flour (besan)
• 3-4 green chilli (chopped)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon asafoetida (hing) powder
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon cumin seed powder
• 1 tablespoon red chilli powder
• Salt according to taste
• 3 tablespoon mustard oil
• Sunflower oil for deep frying
• 2 cup of water
  

Preparation:

1. Heat the pan, saute the cumin powder without and chilli powder without oil and keep aside.
2. Take the gram flour in a big bowl and make a soft dough with salt & water.
3. Heat the mustard oil in a pan, add the hing and green chilli for saute.
4. Pour the soft dough in a pan, add pre-fried cumin-chilli powder and fry it properly & keep aside.
5. Make a medium dough with white flour, 1 tablespoon sunflower oil, baking soda and salt according to taste & water.
6. Make small balls from the dough and turn upward along the circumference to make a small bowl.
7. Stuff the bowl with gram flour mixture and make press it flat 
8. Heat the oil in a pan and deep fry the kachories and keep it in a paper napkin to soak the excess oil.
9. Enjoy the Besan Kachori with Dum alu.