Koraishutir Kochuri Bengali recipe | Bengali Green Peas kachori | Matarshutir kochuri
Koraishutir Kochuri recipe (Bengali Green Peas Kachori) is a deep fried puffy bread stuffed with deliciously spiced green peas filling. Matarshutir kachori or Koraishutir kochuri along with cholar dal and aloor dum is a traditional winter delicacy in each and every Bengali household.
Servings: 6 people
Equipment
- mixer grinder
- Large bowl
- rolling pin
- Thick bottomed pan, Kadhai
- deep frying pan
Ingredients
For the koraishuti / peas stuffing
- 500-600 gms Green peas
- 1 inch Ginger roughly chopped
- 2 green chillies roughly chopped
- 3/4 tsp Cumin seeds
- 1/4 tsp Hing/Asafoetida
- 1/2 tsp Sugar/sweetener
- Salt as per required
- 1 tsp Bengali Bhaja Masala (Roasted cumin and chilli powder)
- 2 tbsp Veg Oil/ Sunflower oil
Bengali Bhaja Masala
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- 2 dried red chilli
For the Dough
- 2 1/2 cups Maida (All purpose flour)
- 4 tsp Oil
- 1/2 tsp Salt (as per taste)
Other Ingredient
- Veg/Sunflower Oil for Deep frying
Instructions
To maje Bengali Bhaja Masala
- Dry roast the cumin seeds and dried red chilli until fragrant (Do not burn). Let it cool down for a bit and then ground it into a fine powder. keep it aside.
To make Koraishuti / Peas Stuffing
- Add the green peas in a mixer grinder along with green chillies and ginger (do nut add water) and ground it into a fine paste.
- Heat oil in a skillet or pan on medium heat. when hot temper it with cumin seeds and hing/Asafoetida.
- Then add the ground green peas paste and cook it, stirring continuously. Sauté until the raw smell disappears and the peas paste starts drying up.
- Next add the salt, sugar and bhaja masala that we had prepared earlier and continue cooking on medium heat until it pulls away from the sides of the pan.
- Take it off the heat and let it cool. (We can make the stuffing way ahead and refrigerate)
To make the Dough
- In a large bowl add the maida/all purpose flour and salt and oil.
- Rub it together well with hands until it turns into a crumbly mixture.
- Now add water a little at a time and knead into a firm but soft dough.
To make Koraishutir kachori
- Make small balls of the dough (approximately lemon sized). Then flatten it into a small circle and stuff it with a small ball of the koraishutir stuffing.
- Gather the sides together and roll it into a ball. Then flatten this stuffed dough and roll it into puris.
- Heat oil in a frying pan to deep fry the puris. Slowly drop in the flattened puris in the hot oil.
- Deep fry the puris until golden brown. Drain and take it off the heat. Continue the same process for the rest of the dough and stuffing.
- Serve it hot along with cholar dal and aloor dum.
