I have been craving Matar Kachori for a year now and did not find the occasion to make it. It did keep delaying for an year and then finally happened for 2 reasons – fresh peas and excess of spring roll sheets.
Matar Kachori is a much relished dish from the north of India and made when fresh peas are in town which is winter. They are filled puffed puri like savory pastry. But here I skipped making the dough out of wheat in which the peas is filled and fried. I instead made it like a swing roll just with a different shape
Need-
- Pastry sheets
- Green peas – 2 cups – boiled
- Ginger – chopped – 2 tsp
- Amchur powder – 2 tsp
- Jeera/cumin seeds – 1 tsp
- Fennel seeds -1 tsp
- Green chillies – 2 – chopped
- Chat masala – 1 tsp
- Besan – 1 tsp
- Ghee- 1 tbsp
- Salt
- Water
- Oil
Process –
- Take oil , temper jeera , green chilli , ginger .
- Add peas and all the spices , salt. Add besan to get a bit thick consistency. (skip if the mix is dry already)
- Wet the pastry sheet , keep the filling in the middle and close the pockets so that they look like squares.
- Brush with oil and bake them at 200 degrees for 7 minutes.
- This tastes good with South Indian kaapi too
TamarindtoAmchur 