Tandoori Fried MoMo With Gravy

Make street style momos at home tandoori or fried,with gravy or without gravy.Options are too many let’s begin making this delicious healthy treat to cheat.

Ingredients:-  ( Serve 14 )

DOUGH

• 1 cup Wheat flour / Atta
• 1 tbsp Oil
• Salt to taste
• 100 ml Water

FILLING

• 300 gm Cottage cheese / Paneer
• 2 tbsp Butter
• 1 big Onion
• 1 tsp Garlic & Ginger paste
• 1/2 tsp Green chilli paste
• Salt to taste
• 1/2 tsp Black pepper
• 1/2 tsp Mint powder / Pudena or Fresh Mint
• 2 tbsp Mayonnaise or Fresh cream

OIL for frying

TANDOORI MASALA

• 4 tbsp Thick curd
• 3 tbsp smoked Mustard Oil / Sarso tail
• 3 tbsp Besan  / Gram flour or Roasted gram flour / Sattu
• 1 tbsp Dry Fenugreek leaves / Kasoori methi
• 1/2 tsp each Ginger & Garlic paste
• 1/4 tsp Nutmeg powder / Jaayaphal
• 1/2 tsp Garam masala
• 1/2 tsp Kashmiri Red chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp Cumin / Zeera powder
• 1/4 tsp Cloves powder / Loung
• 1/4 tsp Cinnamon powder / Dalchini
• 1/4 tsp Green cardamom powder
• 1/2 tsp Chaat masala
• 1/4 tsp Black salt
• Salt to taste
• 1 tbsp chopped green Coriander / Dhaniya

GRAVY

• 1 tbsp Oil
• 1 big Onion
• 1/2 tsp green chilli paste
• Salt to taste
• 4 tbsp Fresh cream
• 1 tsp Soya sauce
• 2 tbsp Tomato ketchup

Method:–

1. In flour mix Oil and Salt till the flour turns flaky.
2. Add water and knead into a stiff dough.
3. Keep aside for 15-20 minutes.
4. For filling in hot melted butter add Onion to sauté till golden brown.
5. Add Garlic,Ginger & Chilli.Saute for a minute or two and then add crumbled Cottage cheese.
6. Add Salt,Pepper,Mint.and Mayonnaise which gives the filling a nice creamy taste .
7. Mix and cook for about 2 minutes.
8. Divide dough in small portions and spread out in small round sheets like we make for puri’s with thin edges but little thick in centre.
9. Place a teaspoon of filling over it and shape it as modak’s or you can give them any shape of your choice.
10. Fry the Momos in hot Oil till they get firm or start to get brown.This will take you hardly 1-2 minutes.
11. Mix all the ingredients of Tandoori masala in a bowl and completely marinate the momo’s in it for an hour.
12. Shallow fry till crispy brown using a non stick vessel adding couple of tablespoons Oil or bake at 220°C for 15-20 minutes.
13. For Momo gravy in hot Oil sauté thinly sliced Onion till translucent.
14. Add the remaining ingredients one by one.
15. Keep cooking for couple of minutes and gravy is ready.
16. Fully coat the momos with gravy and serve hot adding little fresh cream or Mayonnaise over it.

Tips :-

• To make Modak shaped momos pleat the edge of made puri and stick it using water.
• For gravy you can use any mix of veggies besides using Onion like thinly sliced capsicum,carrot and Reddish.