Baked Kachoris

As a child, I remember eating kachoris filled with chopped onions and tamarind and mint chutney and sev as a tea time snack on weekends. I have tried the baked version of the usually fried version today. They were equally yummy and healthy too. Made with whole wheat flour, and yellow moong dal, my weekend snack can be savoured without guilt.

Ingredients:

For the outer cover:

2 cups whole wheat flour

2 tsps baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tablespoon Ajwain seeds

Salt to taste

For the filling:

1 tsp fennel seeds

1 tsp jeera(cumin) seeds

½ cup yellow moong dal ground coarsely

½ tsp garam masala

Salt as per taste

¼ tsp red chili powder

For the outer cover, you will mix all he ingredients together and make a stiff dough using water as needed. Keep the dough covered.

For the filling, start by grinding the moong dal in a chopper and then take a small pan and in 1 tsp oil, add the cumin seeds and wait till they splutter. Then, add the coarsely ground moong dal, fennel seeds, garam masala, salt, and red chili powder and roast it properly. Keep it aside to cool.

Now, once the filling is cool, make small balls from the dough. You should be able to make at least 12 out of the given dough. Press each dough ball with your palm and flatten it. Now fill in the moong dal filling ( about ½ spoon) in each flattened disc and roll it up again. Seal all the sides properly. After filling the mixture in all the balls, put them on a baking sheet and bake them for 10/12 minutes in a pre-heated oven (350 F).

Store them in a tight jar and later in the refrigerator to last long. While serving, add chopped onion, mint and tamarind chutney and serve.