Dahi gujiya chaat recipe

Half moon shaped patties made up of soaked and ground urad daal stuffed with chopped dry fruits and then deep fried ,soaked in water and put in chilled curd and served with khatti imli ki chutney  is a very popular Indian snack and an integral part of holi celebration.Happy cooking and wishing all my beautiful readers a colourful holi!!!! Anamika

Ingredients                                                                      

250 gms white urad dal
1 tbsp chopped ginger
1 tbsp chopped green chillies
Pinch of heeng
2 -3 tbsp of water for grinding

For stuffing

3 tbsp peanuts
1 tsp chopped green chillies
1 tsp chopped ginger
1 tbsp chopped coriander
Pinch of red chilly powder
Pinch of salt

Oil for deep frying

3-4 cups beaten curd
Salt to taste
2 tbsp sugar
Pinch of kala namak
1 tsp red chilly powder
1 tsp bhuna pisa jeera
1 tbsp chopped coriander

Method

Soak urad dal for at least 6 hours. Then grind the dal with ginger and green chillies, grind the dal in small quantity so that it grinds properly. The dal batter should be smooth but thick . Soak the peanuts for an hour, peel them and chop in small pieces. Mix the rest of the stuffing ingredients in the chopped peanuts. Heat the oil for deep frying ,first on high then on medium .Now take a plastic sheet and put it on a kitchen platform. Now with water wet the sheet ,now make a ball from the batter and flatten on the sheet in round .Put little stuffing in the flatten batter and cover from the other side making a semi circle. Now with wet hands slide the badas in the oil and fry till light brown .In this way fry all the badas. Put the fried badas in the big vessel filled with water and little salt .After an hour squeeze out the water from the badas and keep aside.

Add salt ,sugar ,kala namak to the beaten curd .Now dip the badas in the curd and take them out .Arrange the badas on a serving plate and garnish with red chilly powder ,jeera powder and chopped coriander. You can serve with imly chutney also.