Kachori Aloo -Baked Recipe | Onion Kachori Recipe|Pyaz Ki Kachori recipe with aloo sabzi

Kachori Aloo -Baked Recipe | Onion Kachori Recipe. A Step-by-Step recipe with pictures in the recipe card. Kachoris stuffed with sauteed onions flavored with lentil flour and spices. Spicy and a bit tangy flavor. Served best with Potato Curry or Kachori wale aloo and green mint and coriander chutney.

1. What is Kachori Aloo?
2. Why Baked Onion Kachori Aloo?
3. Other Baked Snacks on the Blog.
4. Nutritional Value.
5. Pro Tips

An easy-to-prepare, healthy, low fat, and low-calorie recipe. With instructions given for both Baked as well as Frying the Kachoris. Follow me on Instagram for regular updates on my recipes.->

What Is Kachori Aloo?

A popular Indian Snack. Some people like it as Breakfast too. Originated in Rajasthan. Now a craze all over India. Kachori Aloo / Pyaz ki Kachori is prepared in different parts of the country with different variations to its flavors. Especially the Aloo sabzi / Potato gravy has its regional variations.

Kachori is a deep-fried snack made with a variety of different stuffing options like moong dal, urad, onion, Mewa, Matar, and many more. Each one to its own taste. You can have the one you like most. Served with Aloo gravy, Chole sabzi, or Khatti Meethi chutney/ Tamarind Chutney. Also serves as a Chaat. Delhi also has another kind of kachori, called ‘Khasta kachori’ or ‘Raj Kachori’. Rajasthan has ‘onion kachori’ and Mewa Kachori’. Gujrat usually serves Moong dal stuffed Kachoris spiced with black pepper and red chili powder and flavored with ginger. Baked Moong Dal Kachori.

Some of the variants in North India include a version similar to the Rajasthani one, accompanied by a curry made of potatoes and varied spices or even chana (chole) similar to one served in chole bhature. Check out the Baked Chole Bhature Mini Bites Recipe on my blog. In some parts of Indian, it also served with Chole / Chickpeas Gravy.

Why Baked Kachori?

The consumers and foodies world over are shifting to ‘Baked’ varieties of the quintessential ‘Fried’ Indian snacks. Many Snacks are getting this ‘Baked Makeover’ like our very own Samosa, Gujiya, Tikki, Mathri and now Kachori. This way the modern consumer connects with the traditional recipes. Everyone is looking to get fitter, healthier but at the same time relish their food and indulge into the popular snacks. The ‘Baked’ avatars are low in calories and healthier for the heart.

Other Baked Snacks.

Kachori Aloo -Baked Recipe | Onion Kachori Recipe|Pyaz Ki Kachori recipe with aloo sabzi

Kachori Aloo -Baked Recipe | Onion Kachori Recipe|Pyaz Ki Kachori recipe with aloo sabzi. A delicious and spicy (medium) aloo curry. Baked Kachoris.

Course breakfast, Lunch

Cuisine indian

Keyword Chaat, KachoriAloo

Servings 4 ppl

Prep Time 30 min

Cook Time 35 min

Ingredients

Kachori Dough - Makes 10-11 Kachoris

• 200 gms all purpose flour 1 cup
• 400 gms whole wheat flour 2 cups
• 1.5 tsp salt
• 1 1/4 cup water added gradually
• 1 pinch soda bicarbonate
• 1 tsp Ajwain/ Carom Seeds
• 1/4 cup oil /ghee

Aloo Curry / Potato curry -Makes for 4

• 1 medium Tomatoes pureed in a mixer with ginger
• 2 inch ginger peeled
• 1.5 tsp salt or as per taste
• 1 tsp fennel seeds saunf
• 1 tsp cumin seed jeera
• 1 tsp mustard seeds sarson
• 1 tsp asafoetida Hing
• 1 tsp fenugreek seeds methra seeds/
• 2 Dry red chilies
• 1 green chili slit in two - optional
• 3 tbsp mustard oil
• 1-2 big boiled potato crushed/mashed roughly with hands
• 1.5 tsp amchoor powder
• 1 tap kashmiri chilli powder
• 2 tbsp coriander powder/ Dhania Powder
• 2 tbsp kasoori methi /Fenugreek leaves
• 1.5 cups water

Onion Filling

• 3 Big Onions Finely chopped
• 1 tsp Urad dal flour substitute mentioned in Notes below.
• 2 tsp Moong dal flour substitute mentioned in Notes below.
• 1 tsp Sabhut dhania seeds crushed a bit in mortar and pestle
• 1 tsp jeera
• 1/2 tsp hing
• 1.5 tsp kashmiri chili powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp amchoor
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 1 tsp ajwain

Instructions

Aloo Curry -Step 3

1. Heat the mustard oil. Add red chili dry, green chili (optional), all the seeds, and hing. Let them splutter. Then add all the spice to the mashed potatoes in a bowl. Mix.
2. Add these spiced ( mixed with all spices) potatoes to the oil. Now, add the pureed tomatoes and mix well. Add water and mix. (Adjust the red chili powder as per your taste. If you like it very spicy, then you may add more)
3. Cover and cook until oil separates for 5 min. Add kasoori methi. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

Kachori-Baked -Step 1

1. For Dough: Mix the two flours. Add salt, ajwain, soda bicarb. and oil and mix nicely with your hands. Mix till the dough holds together as shown in the picture. ->
2. Then add water a little at a time and knead a soft dough. Oil the dough with 1 tsp oil and leave the dough covered with a kitchen towel for 15-20 min to rest.
3. Meanwhile, you may follow the Aloo recipe above and make the potato curry/aloo ki sabzi. And preheat the oven at 250 degrees C on the Bake option.
4. How to make the Kachori: Take the dough. Knead for a few seconds again to make it even. Take a small ball from the dough. Press with the hands as shown in the picture. Put the Onion filling in. About 1 tsp.
5. Make kachoris as shown. Then place each in the muffin pan. Grease with oil and Bake for 25 minutes on the Bake option(bottom heat on) then change it to both elements on and Bake for 15 minutes more for an even browning at 250 degrees c.

Onion Filling-Step 2

1. Heat Oil. Add Jeera and coriander seeds. Let them splutter and add hing. Now add the onion. Cook till golden brown.
2. Add all the spices and mix well. Add ajwain and the flours (moong urad) or if you do not have these two then add 2 tbsp Besan /Gram flour.
3. Mix the masala. Add kasoori methi and mix. Transfer to a bowl and cool till you make kachoris and aloo.
4. How to Serve / Assemble: Pour the Aloo sabzi in a bowl. Dip the Kachori in the middle. Sprinkle some coriander leaves and Chaat masala. Optional: add Tamarind chutney + green chutney on top and enjoy your meal.

Recipe Notes

If you do not have urad dal flour and Moong dal flour. You may substitute it with 2 tbsp Besan/Gram Flour.