Momos is a delicious dish from Nepal origin which are used as breakfast dinner or snack. They are dumblings with filling inside. Here i prepared lovely chicken filling. It is tasty and goes well with chilly sauce or any sauce. Give a try on this simply easy recipe.
INGREDIENTS FOR PREPARATION
- All purpose flour: 250 g
- Chicken: 500 g
- Celery: 1 stalk
- Garlic: 8 cloves
- Pepper : 1 tsp
- Green chilly: 3
- Coriander leaves: little
- Salt: to taste
METHOD OF PREPARATION
- Boil 3/4 cup of water.
- When it boils , add all purpose flour and salt and mix well, turn off the flame.
- Now knead it to form a smooth dough like puri. Keep aside for 20-30 minutes
- Cook chicken pieces with celery, pepper, 3 garlic cloves, salt and 10 cups of water.
- When chicken gets cooked, remove from flame and take out the chicken pieces.
- Strain the cooked water and keep aside.
- Remove bones from chicken and mince them with remaining garlic, green chilly and coriander leaves. It is our filling.
- Prepare small uniform round patties with dough ,place little filling on centre.
- Hold the sides of patties and stick all together.
- Pour the above strained water on lower part of steamer and prepared momos on above tray.
- Cook them on steamer for 15-20 minutes.
- Now the gravy will be little thick .
- Momos are served with this thick gravy and red chilly sauce.
For preparing red chilly sauceIngredients
- Red chilly dry(seeds removed): 3
- Shallots: 4
- Tamarind: a gooseberry sized
- Oil: 1 tbs
- Grind red chilly , shallots and tamarind to paste.
- Heat oil in a pan and saute the paste for 3-4 minutes.
- Red chilly sauce is ready.
