Crispy Keema Kachori Recipe: English – Urdu
Keema kachori recipe is a famous snack. The kachori is supposed to have originated in Uttar Pradesh or Rajasthan. Kachoris are also a popular Ramadan meal food item in Pakistan, where variants include vegetarian as well as chicken or beef stuffing served with sweet chutney. Try this crispy and unique kachori with mince stuffing and enjoy.
Crispy Keema Kachori
Ingredients for dough:
- Plain flour – 1/2 kilo
- Salt – 1/2 tsp
- Ghee melted – 3 tbsp
Method:
Mix flour, ghee and salt, make a firm dough with warm water. Set aside for 30 minutes. Divide the dough in portions and make ball. Now prepare the filling and paste.
Ingredients for Filling
- Lamb or chicken mince – 250 grams
- Onion chopped – 1 tbsp
- Ginger Garlic paste 1 tbsp
- Red Chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
- Salt – to taste
- Turmeric powder – 1 pinch
- Garam Masala powder – 1/2 tsp
- Oil – 1 tbsp
- Tomatoes 1 – blended or 1 tbsp tomato puree
- Red Chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
For Paste: Ghee – 3 tbsp and 3 tbsp of plain flour, mix well
Method:
- Add oil in a pan and sauté onion, then add ginger garlic paste and mince, fry well.
- Then add tomatoes blended or tomato puree, salt, red chili and turmeric powder, mix well.
- Cover the lid and let it cook on a low flame until mince is done and water dries.
- Once done, add garam masala powder, mix and take it off of the flame.
- Let it cool down completely.
- Now roll out the balls and apply paste, then sprinkle dry flour and turn all the balls into squares.
- Then flatten into the square chapattis, place about 1 tsp of the filling in the centre of the rolled chapattis and join the corners, again gather 4 corners and seal the ends.
- Repeat with all the balls and keep aside in greased plate.
- Heat up oil for deep frying.
- Then flatten the balls by lightly pressing using your palm and deep fry on low heat until golden and crispy.
- Crispy kachori are ready to eat.
Hi Ghazala, thanks for your recipes, to be honest this is the most easy recipe I find for keema kachori that you explain so well, a while ago I made that kachori but was too hard, I love Indian food and this was hit recipe in my family.
Hi Juliete, Thanks for visiting my blog and liked the recipe you tried.