Chicken Momos Recipe

Ingredients:

• 250 gm Chicken, boiled and minced
• 500 gm Plain wheat flour/maida
• 2 Onions, chopped
• 1 Inch ginger, chopped
• 2 Green chilli, chopped
• 2 Cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 tsp Soya sauce
• Salt to taste
• 1 tbsp Oil

How to make Chicken Momos:

• Combine flour, oil and salt in a bowl, mix well.
• Add water to make it a soft dough.
• Chop green chillies, onions, garlic and ginger.
• Combine them with minced chicken.
• Add soya sauce to it and mix well, set aside.
• Make small balls from the dough.
• Roll them into a small round and put 1 tsp of the filling in the middle.
• Seal it and steam in a momo steamer.
• Steam it for about 20 minutes.
• Serve Chicken Momos with tomato-garlic sauce.

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Tips on making Gravies

1. Always use ghee or vanaspathi instead of oil, which gives a good flavour to the gravy. Tips on making GraviesIf oil alone is used, it does not get separated easily from the ground mixture, as ghee separates from it.

2. Fry the ground masala in reduced flame, so that it retains its colour and taste.

3. Little plain sugar or caramelised sugar added to the gravy makes it tasty.

4. When tomatoes are not in season, tomato ketchup or sauce can be successfully used in the gravies.

5. To retain colour in the gravy always use ripe red tomatoes. Discard green portions if any.

6. Good variety chillies and chilli powder also gives colour to the gravy. Try to use long variety of red chillies. Dry it under sun for few days and powder coarsely at home. Always the coarse powder gives good taste in gravies and pickles.

7. While using ginger and garlic paste in curries, always use garlic at 60% ratio and ginger at 40% as ginger is very strong and may make your dish sharp and pungent.
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