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MUNG BEAN KACHORIS

• 2 cups white flour
• 1 cup chick-pea flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups chudy noodles
• tamarind sauce
• gram massala
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 cup yoghurt
• peanut oil for deep frying
• 1/4 cup mung beans
• 4 medium potatoes

Make a soft dough with sufficient water using the white flour. Do not put any butter or ghee in the dough. Mix the chick-pea flour with the salt and cayenne, and dry roast the chick-pea flour in a pan until nicely browned. Mix the chick-pea flour with water to make a soft dough. Prepare chudy noodles using enough flour to yield 2 cups. If possible, use a ricer with small holes to make long, thin noodles. Set aside.

Now, with the white flour dough, make a ball about one inch in diameter. Push your finger into the ball to make a depression about 3/8" deep. Make a ball from the chick-pea flour dough a bit bigger than a pea. Place the chick-pea ball inside the depression in the white flour dough, and then pinch the white dough together, completely enclosing the chick-pea ball. Again roll the ball lightly in your hands so that it is evenly round. Now, very carefully roll a nice-sized puri from the ball. (Be very careful that nothing is stuck on the rolling pin or on the rolling surface to break the puri.)

Heat the peanut oil (oil is used for this preparation so that the puri will be very hard and crisp rather than tender) and fry the puris. Fry until they puff up. Then continue to fry until the puris are very hard and crispy.

Before you begin the frying process, boil the potatoes, peel them, and dice them in 1 inch cubes. Boil the mung beans until they are soft, but not mushy or broken. Set both aside. Prepare tamarind sauce and add 2 Tablespoon salt. Set aside. Begin frying the puris. When they are all done, in the center break a hole about 2" in diameter in the crispy, puffed-up puri, and drop a few pieces of boiled potato inside. On top of the potatoes, put some mung beans, then a big spoonful of yoghurt, on top of the yoghurt put some chudy noodles, and then sprinkle gram massala. Finally, put a generous amount of tamarind sauce on top of all the layers. Prepare all the kachoris in this way, and offer. This preparation is described as being so delicious that it appears that kachoris are from the upper planetary systems.

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