GHUGHRA RECIPE

Ghughra Recipe Preparation Time 15 Minutes Cooking Time 95 Minutes Difficulty Average Recipe Type Veg. Serves Serves 4 Ingredients: • For Dough • 4 cups Plain Flour (maida) • ½ tsp Asafoetida (optional) • 4 tbsp Melted Ghee • Salt (as per taste) • Oil (for deep frying) For Stuffing • 3 tsp Sugar • 2 tsp Sesame Seeds (til) • 1 tsp Asafoetida (hing) • 3 tsp Ginger-chilli Paste • 4 tsp Chopped Coriander • 1 tsp Cumin Seeds (jeera) • 4 cups Green Peas • 8 tbsp Grated Coconut • 2 Lemon Juice • 4 tbsp Oil • Salt (as per taste) How to make Ghughra: • Take the flour and sieve it to remove unwanted particles from it. Add salt and asafoetida. • Mix melted ghee and water in it and make firm dough. Now, make 20- 30 small balls out of it and keep it aside. • Prepare stuffing by grinding the peas. • Now, heat the oil in a saucepan and put asafetida & cumin seeds in it. Let the seeds crackle. • Add mashed peas and stir, mixing in a few drops of water. • Now, cover the pan with a lid and let the mixture cook for some time. • When it is cooked, uncover it and let it dry for some time. • Put the mixture on a plate and let it cool. Add sugar, sesame seeds, lemon juice, salt, ginger-chilli paste, coriander and grated coconut to it and mix well. • Roll out the balls that you had prepared out of the dough into a 3 inch circle and put one spoon of the stuffing mixture in the centre of each circle. • Tenderly fold the circle into semicircle and seal the edges using a drop of water. • Decorate the edges of the semicircle using thumb and forefinger. • Heat oil in pan and deep fry the stuffed balls in it, until they become brown in color. • Serve hot with chutney.