Moong dal Kachori and Dahi Chaat

Ingredients:

• Soaked Split Moong dal / Yellow Moong dal - 1/2 cup (soak for 2 hours)
• Maida / All purpose flour - 2 cups
• Melted ghee /Clarified butter - 4 tbsp
•  Oil - 2 tbsp
• Hing / Asafoetida powder
• Jeera / Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
• Daniya / Coriander seeds - coarsely ground - 1 tbsp
• Saunf / Fennel seeds - 1 tbsp
• Grated / finely chopped ginger - 1 tbsp
• Finely chopped green chilies - 1 tbsp
• Chili powder - 1 tbsp
• Garam masala - 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Besan / Chick pea flour / kadala maavu - 5 tbsp
• Amchur / Dry Mango powder - 1 tbsp (or) squeeze half a lemon

Instructions:

• Strain the water out of soaked moong dal completely and coarse grind for just few seconds in the mixer
• Mix the ghee with maida and make soft dough by adding water little by little - rest it for 15 minutes by covering it with a cloth
• For the filling - Heat oil in a pan and add hing, jeera, daniya, saunf - saute for a minute
• Add grated ginger, green chilies, mix well and add both the mentioned masalas and salt
• Saute for few minutes and add besan - mix and dry roast for about 5 minutes
• When the besan is roasted a nice aroma will arise indicating the filling is ready
• Add the amchur powder / lemon juice, mix well and turn off the burner after few minutes - let it cool completely
• Now make small lemon sized balls of the dough
• Roll out small circles as the size of the pooris, add 2 spoons of the filling to the middle and close the edges from all sides without any weakends or openings
• pinch off any extra dough on the top and flatten it gently with the fingers or roll into kachori size
• Heat oil in a kadai and deep fry the kachoris in medium flame on both sides till its fluffy, flaky and crispy
• Medium flame is good to make kachoris that are cooked well on the inside as well with good crust on the outside

Dahi Chaat:

• On a plate, place the kachori, break in the upper crust/ layer and add the following ingredients. Since chaat may include many ingredients and options you may skip or add few if not available
• Chaat ingredients - Yogurt, Green chutney/Mint chutney, Imli ki chutney or Tomato ketchup, Chaat masala, Chopped onions, Coriander leaves, Sev, boiled and mashed potato, bhondi etc
• I have only used the yogurt and the chutneys to keep it simple
• Enjoy the chatpata dahi kachori for a stomach filling evening/party snack