Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, matar kulcha. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Matar kulcha is one of the popular street food of north India specially in Delhi and amritsar. You might see many street vendors selling matar kulcha in roads or even outside schools and colleges. They serve the matar in large brass pots.
Matar Kulcha is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Matar Kulcha is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have matar kulcha using 27 ingredients and 31 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Matar Kulcha:
- Get For preparing kulcha:-
- Get 2 1/2 cup all purpose flour/maida
- Take 4 tbsp curd/dahi /plain yogurt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp baking soda
- Take 3/4 cup water for kneading dough
- Get 2 tsp sugar
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 2 1/2 tbsp ghee /oil
- Make ready 4 tbsp nigella seeds /kalonji
- Prepare 1/4 cup chopped coriander leaves
- Prepare For preparing matar curry:-
- Prepare 1 cup dried white peas
- Make ready 2-3 cups water for cooking dried peas
- Prepare 1 tbsp oil
- Take 1 tsp cumin seeds/jeera
- Make ready 1 tsp chat masala
- Make ready 1/2 tsp roasted cumin powder
- Take 1/2 tsp dry mango powder/amchur
- Take 1/2 tsp red chilli powder/lal mirch
- Take 1/4 tsp garam masala
- Take 2 tbsp Jaljeera powder
- Get For topping:-
- Take 1 Onion chopped small sized
- Make ready 1 Tomato chopped medium sized
- Take 1 Lemon
- Get 1-2 Green/red chillies slit
It's usually paired with a type of leavened bread called Kulcha to create an authentic fine-dining experience. The combo - Matar Kulcha is hearty enough to serve as a meal or as a snack, and leftovers make the best next-day meals. Now with the lockdown in effect, one cannot really go out to eat these delicious street foods. Matar kulcha is our all-time favourite chaat.
Steps to make Matar Kulcha:
- Steps for preparing kulcha dough:-
- Put maida, baking powder, baking soda, salt, sugar in a big bowl and mix everything well.
- Now add curd, oil and little water to dry ingredients.
- Start kneading the dough using little water at a time. Make a soft and smooth dough.
- Cover the dough with a kitchen towel. Let the dough ferment for 2 hours.
- Let's prepare matar curry.
- Steps for preparing matar curry:-
- Soak the white peas in enough water overnight or for 7-8 hours.
- Drain the water next day and pressure cook the white peas with 3-4 cups of water.
- Cook for 2-3 whistles or until matar are completely cooked.
- Mash the matar slightly with wooden spoon.
- In a pan heat oil on low-medium flame.
- Add cumin to hot oil and saute until cumin turns brown.
- Turn off the heat and remove the pan from gas.
- Now add chat masala,cumin powder,amchur powder,red chilli powder and garam masala to the sauted cumin seeds.
- Stir and immediately add pour the mixture to cooked matar.
- Turn on the heat and cook matar for 3-4 minutes.
- Now add jaljeera powder and mix well.If the matar mixture looks dry add little water.
- Cook the matar till all the flavours are mixed properly for About 2-3 minutes.
- Keep matar aside while you prepare kulchas.
- Steps for preparing kulcha:-
- Heat a tava on medium flame.
- Make a small ball of dough,sprinkle some kalonji on ball.
- With the help of rolling pin roll into small kulcha.
- Sprinkle few chopped coriander leaves on rolled kulcha.
- Place kulcha on hot tawa.
- Apply ghee/oil when kulcha is half done.
- Cook the kulcha till it get golden spots and is evenly cooked.
- Prepare all the kulcha same way.
- Before serving top matar with chopped onion,tomatoes,chilies and squeeze some lemon juice on top.
- Delicious matar kulcha is ready to serve.
And nothing is better than preparing this delicious recipe at home and enjoying it with your loved ones. Matar kulcha can be a good breakfast option as well as brunch recipe. Matar and kulcha are two different things that you can prepare at home and enjoy. Matar is a tangy and spicy gravy preparation of white peas which is served with a flatbread called kulcha. Matar is flavoured with a jaljeera chutney that makes it so delicious.
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