Koraisutir Kochuri

KORAISUTIR KOCHURI 

Koraisutir Kochuri ...Green Pea stuffed fried flat bread, a winter special for Bengalis.
I know it is not winter here .
Thanks to frozen green peas available through out the year,who needs to wait till winter.
I know there is so much nostalgia with peeling fresh green peas those winter days to help your mother .
Luchi is a deep fried flat bread made of wheatflour that is typical of Bengali cuisine,Assamese and Oriya.
If maida is substitute with Atta is called Poori.
Kochuri mean stuffed flatbread with any stuffing like (lentils,potato,fish ).
For Koraishutir Kochuri the stuffing is made of green pea paste.
Grean Pea is called koraishuti.

INGREDIENTS 

For Peas Kochuri

For the Peas stuffing 

• Sweet Green Peas-2 cups 
• Green Chilies-6-7pcs
• Chopped Ginger -1tbsp
• Bhaja Masala-2tbsp*
• Sugar and Salt as per taste

*Bhaja Masala 
The spice for Bhaja Masala

1. Cumin Seeds-2tbsp
2. Coriander seeds-2tbsp
3. Fennel seeds-2tbsp
4. Cloves-10
5. Dry red chili-4-5pcs

Roast the spices for 10-12 minutes at very low heat .
Cool and grind to a fine powder.

METHOD

                For Stuffing 

• If you are using fresh green peas,then shell the peas,wash well and drain the water .
• I used frozen peas, i just thawed and washed them 
• Make a  smooth paste of Green Peas, Green chilies and Ginger with the help of grinder
• Take oil in a pan. 
• when the oil is hot add the green peas paste and cook it in medium flame 
• Keep the paste stirring,
• Gradually it will change color and will dry up .
• when the paste is almost dry add Bhaja Masala and salt .
• when the paste does not sticking to the pan anymore,it is done.
• Let it cool down . Do not dry too much ,you should be able to make round balls with the stuffing without sticking to your hands .
• Now stuffing is done.

For the Dough 

• All purpose flour (maida)-3 cups
• salt -1tsp
• vegetable oil-2tsp
• Hot water to make soft dough

Method 

• Take the flour in a bowl add oil ,salt ,sugar and mix well.
• Gradually add water and make a dough .
• Kneading  the flour till a firm,smooth dough 
• Cover with wet cloth or wet kitchen towel and keep it for 1 hr .
• After 1 hr make a small balls from the dough which is called Lechi in bengali.

• Flatten the dough and take a little stuffing and put inside the dough .

• Now comes the last step of rolling the kochuri and frying it .
• Roll the stuffed dough with rolling pin slowly .
• Green peas stuffing need to make smooth paste ,if we have coarse paste then when we roll the kochuri it will burst out from the dough .
• Heat oil in a deep wok and fry them .

• As it Puffs,turn and frying one by one and put on paper tissue .
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Usually Koraisutir Kochuri served with Aloor Dum