Kachori (deep fried bread with lentil filling)

Ingredients

• 2 cups of strong white flour
• 1 cup oil
• ½ tsp of baking powder
• Salt to taste
• For Filling:-
• 1 cup (boiled and cooked) Split Bengal gram (daal chana)
• ½ of an onion chopped
• ½ tsp of coriander seeds crushed/powder
• 1 tbsp of grated ginger
• ¼ tsp of crushed fennel seeds into powder
• Red chilli powder as required
• ½ tsp of cumin powder

Method

Step 1

For Dough:- Knead the flour along with salt, water and oil. Make a firm dough. Leave it to rest covered with damp cloth.

Step 2

For filling :- Let split Bengal gram (chana daal) soak overnight. Next day in fresh water along with salt, turmeric powder and red chilli powder boil it and cook till its tender. Strain the daal (lentils) and let it dry out completely now in a bowl take daal chana mash it, mix in cumin powder, fennel powder, coriander crushed, grated ginger and onions. Make equal sized dough balls, then roll out individual ball put 1tsp of filling cover the top of filling with another rolled out same sized flat sheet. Both the sheets should be of same size. Slightly press the edges to seal, and then roll it a bit with a rolling pin. Heat oil or ghee in a deep frying pan and fry the kachori one by one. The size of a kachori should not be greater than 4 inches in diameter.

Step 3

Variation

Boiled and cooked potato can be used also along with daal channa in the ratio of ½ and half for filling.