Making of Smoky Wheat Tandoori Veg Momos
Food Type: Vegetarian
Prepare Time: 15 mints | Marination Time: 15 mints | Cook Time: 30 mints
Total Time: 1 Hour | Servs: 4 to 5
Author: Sriram | Cuisine: North Indian | Recipe Type: Momos
Pre-cooking-time
1 Hour Hung the curd in a muslin cloth or cotton cloth to get the thick curd.
15 Mnts to soak marinated momos before frying
Main Ingredients
Wheat flour - 3 cups
Cabbage - 1 cup grated
Onion - 1 cup finely chopped
Carrot - 1 cup grated
Salt
Oil to fry
To Marinate
Besan flour - 4 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Pepper powder - 1/2 tbsp
Salt to taste
Chat masala - 1 tbsp
Kasuri methi - 1 tbsp
Kashmiri red chilli powder - 1 tbsp
Garam Masala - 1 tbsp
Lemon - 2 tbsp
Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp finely chopped
Mint leaves - 1 tbsp finely chopped
Thick curd (Hung Curd) - 3 tbsp
For filling momos
Mix grated Cabbage, Carrot, Onion, Salt, and pepper and keep it aside
Mixing marinated ingredients
Take a vessel and mix all the ingredients mentioned in “To Marinate” step, like Besan flour - 4 tbsp, Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp, Pepper powder - 1/2 tbsp, Salt to taste, Chat masala - 1 tbsp, Kasuri methi - 1 tbsp, Kashmiri red chilli powder - 1 tbsp, Garam Masala - 1 tbsp, Lemon - 2 tbsp, Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp finely chopped, Mint leaves - 1 tbsp finely chopped and Thick curd (Hung Curd) - 3 tbsp (Hung the curd for an hour in a muslin cloth or cotton cloth to get the thick curd).
Preparing the dough
Kneed the dough like making for roti
Split the dough into big lemon sized dough ball and keep it aside
Cooking methods with Nala's touch (eNalabaag)
Momos preparation
Roll the dough ball into small round shape - 3 to 4 inches circle
Fill the vegetables in the centre (mixture prepared in the for filling momos step)
Start covering the sides like making kozakattai - to make momos
Keep aside all the momos ready for frying
Frying the momos
Take a kadai and pour oil for frying momos
Once the oil becomes hot (keep the stove in medium flame)
Lightly Deep fry the momos till before the stage of golden fry (don’t over fry)
Take out all the momos and keep aside (to dry excess oil place it in tissue or kitchen cloth)
Marinating fried Momos
Take each fried momos and dip in the Marinated mixture (done in the step “Mixing marinated ingredients”)
Coat each momos very well to ensure that the marination covers all sides of the momos
Keep it aside for 15 minutes
Making of Smoky Wheat Tandoori Veg Momos
Take a pan and add 2 tbsp oil, keep the stove in medium flame
Shallow fry the marinated momos, turn sides of the momos with a spoon or stick so that all the sides of the momos gets fried
Fry till the momos turns into golden brown
Take each momos with a handle and fry directly in the flame, this step will make the momos gets a charcoal smell when smoke fried. Or you can use a lengthy stick, stick 3 to 4 momos and fry in direct flame to get a charcoal smoke fry. Roll the stick to get all sides of momos got fried.
Now Smoky wheat tandoori veg momos ready - Serve along with Green chutney
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