Snacks Recipes
Shankarpala Recipe
Ingredients
Plain flour or Maida (1 1/2c), sugar (1/3c), water (1c), ghee (1/3c) and oil to deep fry.
Method of preparation:-
Take a sauce pan, place it over heat. Put 1 cup of water in it then add sugar and ghee in it. Warm the water, sugar and ghee together in the pan until the sugar gets dissolves. Take a large bowl, put Maida in it and then add warm water with dissolved sugar in it. Mix it well then knead it into soft dough. Divide the dough into 4 parts. Roll it into chapattis of 1/3” thick. Cut these chapattis with knife or cookie cutter into small diamond shapes. Lift up these pieces with spatula and keep them aside on a dry cloth for about 1 hour. Put them in hot oil for deep fry. Fry them until get light golden brown. Drain them and keep them aside until get cool. Now store them in clean and dry container.
Make – 2 ½ cups
Making time – 45 minutes
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Sweet Kachori Recipe
Ingredients
For Cover:-Plain flour (250gms), corn flour (1tbsp), ghee (30gms).
For filling:-Khoya (200gms), powder milk (50gms), nutmeg, cardamom and cinnamon powder (1/2tsp).
For syrup:-Water (1c), sugar (250gms) and saffron (a pinch) and ghee for deep frying.
Method of preparation:-
Take a bowl. Mix all the ingredients of filling. Mix them until get crumbly. Take another bowl; mix all the ingredients for cover. Add water to knead to soft dough. Cover the dough with wet cloth and keep it aside. Boil water and sugar in a pan to make syrup. Add a tablespoon of milk to clear the syrup. Boil the syrup until it gets slightly sticky. Now strain the syrup and then add crushed saffron in it. Keep it aside. Take dough; divide it into 15-16 parts. Roll one part into a purl, place a ball of filling mixture in the centre of it. Pull all the sides to seal the mixture and press in the centre. Make about 5 to 6 such kachoris, fry them in hot ghee on low flame until get lightly brown. Make more kachoris like this. When the kachoris get slightly cool then make a hole in the centre of each then pour about half tablespoon of syrup and roll the kachoris around to let the syrup spread. Keep them for about half hour before serving.
Make – 15 kachoris
Time required – 2 hours
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Hot Kachori Recipe
Ingredients
For cover:-Plain flour (1 1/2c), cold water to knead, oil (3tbsp) and salt to taste.
For filling:-Yellow moong dal, washed and soaked for 1/2hour, finely chopped coriander leaves (1tbsp), garam masala (1tsp), cumin seeds (1/2tsp), red chilli powder (1tsp), mustard seeds (1/2tsp), dhania powder (1/2tsp), coarsely crushed fennel seeds or saunf (1/2tsp),coarsely crushed coriander seeds (1/2tsp), asafetida (2-3pinches), plain flour for patching (1tbsp), oil (1tbsp), oil to deep fry and salt to taste.
Method of preparation:-
For cover:-Take a large bowl, mix flour, oil and salt in it and then knead it into a dough. Keep it aside for about 30 minutes.
For filling:-Take a pan, put water in it and then place it over heat. Boil water then add dal in the pan. Boil the dal for 5 minutes and then drain it. Keep it for cooling.Take a heavy pan, place it over heat. Heat oil in it and add all the seeds whole and crushed. Fry them then add asafetida in the pan and mix it. Now add all the other ingredients. Mix them well in the pan but do not smash the dal fully. Take off the pan from heat and keep it to cool. Now divide the mixture into 15 parts. Shape the dough into balls with the greased palm and then keep them aside. Make a paste of flour and water for patching. Keep it aside. Now take ball size dough and roll it into 4” diameter round. Place the filling mixture in the centre. Wrap the filling with the dough like a pouch. Break the excess dough. To make it flattish and round, press it with palm. Repeat the process to make 4-5 kachories. Now put them in hot oil for deep frying. Fry them until get golden and crispy. Drain and serve them with tamarind and green chutneys.
Make about 10 -12 pieces
Making time – 1hour (excluding soaking time)
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Masala Vada Recipe
Ingredients
Yellow gram dal or channa dal (1c), cumin seeds (1/2tsp), finely chopped onions (1/2c), finely chopped green chillies (3-4), finely chopped coriander (1/2c), oil for deep frying and finely chopped dill leaves (1/2c).
Method of preparation:-
Take 1 cup of channa dal, wash it and soak it for about 3-4 hours. Keep aside the 2 tablespoon of dal and then grind the remaining dal coarsely in a grinder.Take a bowl; mix all other ingredients in it with whole dal. Take some hot oil about 2-3 tablespoon, add it to the mixture.Take a pan, heat oil in it. Now take some mixture in your hand and make Pattie shaped rounds with the moist palm.Put them into the hot oil and then fry those from both sides until get golden brown.When the vadas get ready then serve them hot with tamarind chutney, green chutney or with sauce.
Make about 15 vadas
Making time – 20 minutes (excluding soaking time)
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Samosa Recipe
Ingredients
For cover:- Plain flour or Maida (1c), water to knead dough and warm oil (2tbsp).
For filling:- Boiled, peeled and mashed potatoes (2large), crushed garlic (1/2tsp), finely chopped onion (1), crushed ginger (1/2tsp), crushed coriander seeds (1/2tsp), crushed green chillies (2), finely chopped coriander (1/2tsp), garam masala (1/2tsp), lemon juice extracted (1/2), red chilli powder (1tsp), turmeric powder (1/2tsp), oil to deep fry and salt to taste.
Method of preparation:-
For dough:-Take plain flour or maida in a bowl.Make a well in the flour then add salt, oil and little water in the well of flour. Mix it well until it gets crumbly.Now add more water to knead the it and then make soft dough.Cover the dough with moist cloth and then keep it aside for about 15 to 20 minutes.Now again knead the dough on the flat surface and cover it.
For filling:-Take a pan, heat 3 tablespoon of oil in it.Add coriander seeds, garlic, ginger and green chillies.Fry them in the pan for a minute by stirring them, add onion, sauté them until gets light brown.Now add coriander, salt, red chilli, turmeric and garam masala.Stir them and fry them for about 2 minutes then add boiled and mashed potatoes, stir them and cook them for 2 minutes.Keep them aside to cool.
To make samosa:-Take some dough.Roll it on the flat surface to make a thin 5” diameter round shape.Cut it into two halves. Run a moist finger on each half.Join the ends and press together to make a cone.Now fill the filling mixture in the cone and then seal the sides.Make more samosa like this and then deep fry them over low to medium heat until get light brown.Do not fry them over high heat. When they get fry then drain them on a rack or paper towel.Serve them hot with green and tamarind chutneys or with tomato sauce.
Number of servings – 20
Making time 45 minutes
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