Mangochhi

Recipe to make Mangochhi



Recipe to make Mangochhi


 

Ingredients for making Mangochhi:

1.      1 cup moong ka mogar.

2.      Pinch of heeng (asafoitida).

3.      ½ a jug of hot water salted with 1 teaspoon salt.

4.      Oil to fry.

5.      1 teaspoon red chili powder.

Ingredients for making kadhi:

1.      2 cups beaten curd or butter milk.

2.      ½ teaspoon Haldi (Turmeric).

3.      1 Teaspoon red chili powder.

4.      Pinch of heeng (asafoitida).

5.      Few leaves of kadhi patta.

6.      1 tablespoon ghee.

7.      I teaspoon jeera (Cumin Seeds).

How to make Vada:

1.      Wash and soak moong ka mogar for 3 hours.

2.      Grind to a fine paste.

3.      Separate ½  a cup of this paste for kadhi.

4.      Add heeng and beat thoroughly.

5.      Put a drop of beaten dal in a cup of water. If the drop sinks to bottom, beat more. Beat until, the drop of dal paste floats in the cup.

6.      Heat oil for frying.

7.      Fry small vadas from this paste of dal.

8.      Once fried, soak the vadas in hot salted water.

How to make kadhi for Mangochhi:

1.      Mix well curd and ½ cup moong batter.

2.      Add 4-5 cups of water, salt haldi and kadhi patta.

3.      Boil for 15-20 minutes. Keep stirring continuously.

4.      The longer the boil, the tastier the Mangochhi.

5.      Squeeze vadas in palms to drain out water from soaked vadas.

6.      Dip them in boiling kadhi.

7.      Boil for another 2 minutes.

8.      Stir carefully to not break the vadas.

9.      Heat ghee in a frying pan.

10.  Add jeera, heeng and red chili powder.

11.  Put this tadka to garnish mangochhi.

12.  Serve with steamed rice.