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Aloo pyaz kachori - famous fried snack from rajasthan, breakfast, teatime snack, vegetarian

Aloo Pyaz Ki Kachori

Famous Indian vegetarian snack from Rajasthan. Crispy from outside and spicy flavourful inside.
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Course: snacks
Cuisine: Indian, Rajasthani
Keyword: indian street food, vegetarian snacks
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Servings: 10 kachori
Author: Nidhi

Equipment

Kadhai

Ingredients

For the dough

  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1 cup plain flour
  • 1/4 cup oil/ghee
  • salt to taste
  • water

For the potato filling

  • 3 onions finely chopped
  • 4 potatoes boiled
  • 1 tbsp oil
  • 1 green chili finely chopped
  • 2 tsp fennel seeds saunf
  • 1 tsp nigella seeds kalonji
  • 1 tsp red chili powder
  • ½ tsp garam masala
  • ½ tsp mint leaves powder
  • 1 tsp dry mango powder amchoor
  • 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
  • salt to taste
  • oil for deep frying

Instructions

Make the dough

  • Take a wide deep utensil. Add both the flours and salt and mix it.
  • Make a well in the center and pour oil/ghee in it.
  • Mix the oil with flour and rub with your hands softly so that oil is uniformly mixed with flour.
  • Using as little water as you can make a dough.
  • The dough should not be as hard as that for poori or as soft as that for roti.
  • Cover the dough and keep aside for 15 minutes.

Prepare aloo pyaz mixture

  • Peel and roughly mash the potatoes.
  • Heat oil in the pan. When it's hot add fennel seeds and nigella seeds.
  • Sauté chopped onions and green chilies.
  • Add all the spices, salt, and potato.
  • After cooking for a minute switch off the flame.
  • Give everything a good mix. Add chopped coriander leaves.
  • check the taste and add anything if required.

make Kachoris

  • Take a lemon sized ball of dough. Roll out the dough. Keep a big spoonful of potato-onion mixture in the center.
  • Fold the dough and roll out again to the desired size.
  • These kachoris are not rolled out thin as the potato-onion mixture will come out.

Fry

  • Deep fry till brown on both sides.
  • when you drop the kachori in hot oil wait for it to puff up and then turn it over.
  • Change the flame to medium-low otherwise, it will not cook properly from inside.
  • Drain on a paper/kitchen towel to remove excess oil.
  • Serve hot with imli chutney, mint chutney and a steaming cup of hot tea :-)
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