Air fried Sooji Matar Kachoris are a very delicious and healthy version of traditional deep fried Sooji Kachoris Stuffed with a filling of protein-rich green peas, these Indian stuffed dough balls will be a delightful snack for all your guests coming for HOLI get together.
HOLI the festival of colors is a big Indian festival which signifies the welcome of spring.The beautiful colors of Holi symbolize love, friendship, spring and new beginnings.
On this day, after some basic worshipping rituals, all the friends and family gather together and play with dry or wet HOLI colors. They paint each other’s faces with colors spreading the joy of togetherness and love. After an hour or two of color play, people devour the several delicacies prepared during HOLI.
Some of them include Chaat, Kanji Vada ,dry snacks and a special drink called Thandai.
This year my new year resolution is to maintain my health by eating the right food, in a right manner and exercising. Air fryer is an excellent way to reduce a massive amount of fat and calories without sacrificing on taste. Because air fryers use air to cook food, it does not require the extra calories that submerging food in oil can add.
Delicious and healthy Air Fried Semolina Kachoris
You can enjoy 3-4 Kachoris without guilt.
Here are the pictorial steps which I followed, The detailed recipe is at the end.
Grind the green peas
Preparing the pea filling.
Boiling sooji in water
all water has absorbed
This is the kind of dough we need to make kachoris
Kachoris ready to air fry
These Air fried Sooji Kachoris are going to be one of the of Holi snacks I would be serving to my guests this Holi. They are so delicious in taste and crunchy in texture. Serve them hot with any chutney and everyone is going to love them.
Air Fried Sooji Matar Kachoris
Ingredients
To make the filling for Kachoris
- 1 Cup Green Peas
- 1 inch ginger chopped
- 1 green chili chopped
- 1/4 tsp Heeng or asafoetida
- salt to taste
- 1/2 tsp Amchoor ( Dry mango) powder
- 1/2 tsp coriander powder
- 1/2 tsp fennel seeds powder
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp oil
To Make dough
- 1.5 cup Sooji or Semolina
- 3 cups water
- 1 tsp oil
- 1 tsp carom or Ajwain seeds
Instructions
To make the filling
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wash the green peas and dry them on a paper towel.
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in a food processor, make a coarse paste of green peas.
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heat oil in a small pan or kadhai, and add cumin seeds and heeng or asafoetida,
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Add ginger and green chiles and stir for a minute on low flame.Add green peas to the pan.
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mix well and add the other spices. Keep stirring the mixture till it becomes dry.
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turn off the flame and take out the mixture in a plate.your filling is ready.
To Make Kachoris
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Pre heat the airfryer and set the temperature at 390F or 200C
Boil 3 cups of water in a pan and once it starts to boil add carom seeds, salt and 1 tsp oil to it.
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Then add sooji (semolina ) and mix well. Stir constantly and let it cook on low flame until it turns thick
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Switch off the flame and let the mixture cool down. Keep stirring constantly. Transfer sooji mixture to a bowl and let it cool down.
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Once the mixture has come to a temperature which you can easily touch it, knead a soft dough with greased hands.
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Now divide the dough into equal portions, each portion equal to a big lemon.
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Grease your hands and take one portion in your hand, flatten it like a patty, place a tsp of filling at the center.
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Close the stuffing from all sides and flatten the stuffed dough ball to make kachoris. Repeat the process until entire dough is utilized.
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brush some oil on your air fryer basket and keep the kachoris inside, brush some oil on all kachoris and let them air fry for 20 minutes, until they turn slightly brown.
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air-fry all the kachoris and serve them hot with green chutney.You can also store them in fridge for a week and reheat in air fryer /microwave before serving.
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Thanks for stopping by,
Swati.
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Beautiful click….Lovely healthy delicious recipe n very apt for the occasion..
Thanks Di
loved this air fried version swati. i am so trying it.