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Bhel kachori | street style bhel kachori | bhel kachori with chaat chutney recipe

Author Nehas Cook Book
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Course chaat, Street Food
Cuisine Indian
Servings 12 kachories

Ingredients
 

For kachori

  • 1 cup maida
  • 1 cup rava
  • Salt to taste
  • ¾ cup hot water or as required
  • 4 tbsp gram flour - besan
  • ½ tsp red chilli powder
  • Salt to taste
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 1 tbsp oil
  • 1 tsp water

For bhel

  • 4 tsp oil
  • 4 tbsp peanuts
  • 3 tbsp roasted chana dal
  • Few curry leaves
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp red chilli powder
  • Salt to taste
  • 4.5 cup puffed rice
  • ½ cup boiled potatoes
  • ½ cup chopped onion
  • ¼ cup raw mango pieces - optional
  • Some coriander leaves
  • 1 tsp chaat masala
  • ½ cup nylon sev
  • 1 tsp lemon juice

For green chutney

  • ½ cup coriander leaves
  • ¼ cup mint leaves
  • 7-8 curry leaves
  • 1 tsp black salt
  • 1 tbsp chopped raw mango
  • 5-6 green chilli
  • ½ cup capsicum - optional
  • 1 inch ginger
  • 1 tsp roasted chana dal
  • Salt to taste
  • 3-4 ice cubes
  • 3-4 tbsp water

For date-tamarind chutney

  • 1 cup date-tamarind pulp - 1/2 cup dates + ½ cup tamarind
  • ½ cup jaggery
  • 1 tsp dry ginger powder
  • 1 tsp red chilli powder
  • 1 tsp sauf powder
  • 1 tsp coriander powder
  • ½ tsp black salt
  • Salt to taste
  • 500 ml water

For garlic chutney

  • 10-12 soaked dry red chilli
  • 8-9 garlic cloves
  • 1 tsp jeera powder
  • 1 tsp black salt
  • Salt to taste
  • 50 ml water

Assembling bhel kachori

  • Date-tamarind chutney
  • Green chutney
  • Garlic chutney
  • Bhel
  • Chopped onion
  • Sev
  • Pomegranate seeds - optional

Instructions

Making kachori

  • For making the dough, in a mixing bowl, add rava, maida and salt to taste, mix the dry ingredients, and add water gradually and knead the semi-soft dough.
  • Cover the dough with a damp cloth & rest for 10-15 minutes.
  • To make stuffing, in a mixing bowl, add besan, red chilli powder, salt, baking soda, oil and water. mix well and keep aside to be used as a filling to make kachori.
  • After the resting of the dough, divide into equal size dough balls, and shape a dough ball like a small cup with your thumb & index finger, fill the small cap with a small spoonful of the besan filling, bring the ends together and seal to make a ball.
  • Flatten with hands and with the rolling pin and roll in a thin and medium size circle. Use dry flour if it is required.
  • Roll all the kachori in the same way.
  • Heat oil in a wok for frying, make sure the oil is hot, but not very hot, and fry the kachori in hot oil on medium-high flame.
  • while frying, push down the kachori with the spatula so it fluffs up, flip the kachori and splash hot oil over it so it fluffs like a balloon, and fries from both sides until crisp & golden brown.
  • Fry all the kachori’s in a similar way. The kachoris are ready.

making bhel

  • In a pan, add oil, peanuts and roasted chana dal. Roast it until it turns crunchy.
  • keeping the flame on low, add a few curry leaves, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, hing and salt. sauté for a minute.
  • Then add puffed rice and mix well until the spices are well combined.
  • Transfer masala murmura into a large bowl.
  • Then add boiled potato pieces, chopped onion, chopped raw mango pieces, some coriander leaves, chaat masala, sev and lemon juice.
  • Mix well. Bhel is ready

Making green chaat chutney

  • In a mixture jar, add coriander leaves, mint leaves, curry leaves, black salt, raw mango, green chilli, ginger, roasted chana dal, salt, some ice cubes and little water.
  • Grind it into a smooth paste. Green chutney is ready.

Making date-tamrind chutney

  • In a pan, add date and tamarind pulp, jaggery, dry ginger powder, red chilli powder, saunf powder, coriander powder, black salt and salt.
  • Add water and mix well.
  • Cover and cook chutney on a medium flame for 10-15 minutes or till it slightly thickens.
  • Date-tamarind chutney is ready.

Making garlic chutney

  • In a mixture jar, add soaked dry red chill (discard its water), garlic cloves, black salt, jeera powder and salt to taste, add 50 ml water, grind into a fine paste.
  • Garlic chuntey chutney is ready to use.

Assembling bhel kachori

  • Make a hole in the center of kachori, and add sweet chutney, green chutney, and garlic chutney as per your taste.
  • Fill kachori with bhel.
  • Then top it with chopped onion, sev and pomegranate seeds.
  • Serve bhel kachori immediately.

Notes

  • knead the semi-soft dough for kachori.
  • do not add more water and oil to kachori stuffing.
  • seal stuffing properly into kachori dough.
  • Fry kachori on medium flame till it becomes golden brown from both sides.
  • Serve bhel kachori immediately.