Chicken Momo

Directions

  1. 1Mix flour, cornflour, salt, and hot oil in a bowl.
  2. 2Add hot water and prepare a dough. The water should be just before boiling.
  3. 3Keep the dough to rest for 30 minutes.
  4. 4Add chicken breast pieces, carrots, onion, green chilies, ginger, garlic, and lemon peel in a blender.
  5. 5Add coriander leaves, blend, and transfer to a bowl.
  6. 6Add soya sauce, black pepper powder, salt, and hot oil to it and mix.
  7. 7Mix chili flakes, white sesame seeds, red chili powder and Kashmiri red chili powder in a bowl.
  8. 8Fry garlic in oil in a pan and pour the garlic and oil to the mixture and mix well.
  9. 9Prepare a dipping sauce with soya sauce, tomato sauce, lemon juice, honey, water and chili oil.
  10. 10Punch the dough to deflate and divide the dough into four parts.
  11. 11Roll out a portion of the dough.
  12. 12Cut out round shapes from the rolled dough.
  13. 13Place a spoonful of the chicken mixture in the center of each circle.
  14. 14Pleat and seal the edges to form momos.
  15. 15Spread some flour on a plate and transfer the momos to it.
  16. 16Cover the plate with a poly and keep it in the deep freezer.
  17. 17Add some oil to a pan, place the momos on it, add water and cover the pan.
  18. 18Cook for 10 minutes.
  19. 19Flip the momos, and cook for 5 minutes.
  20. 20Transfer to a plate and add the dipping sauce to it.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup flour
  • 0.25 cup cornflour
  • 0.5 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp hot oil
  • 0.5 cup hot water
  • 1 cup chicken breast pieces
  • some carrot
  • some onion
  • some green chilies
  • 4 pieces ginger
  • some cloves garlic
  • some lemon peel green part
  • 1 handful coriander leaves
  • some soya sauce
  • some black pepper powder
  • some salt
  • 2 tbsp hot oil
  • 2 tbsp chili flakes
  • 1 tbsp white sesame seeds
  • 1 tsp red chili powder
  • 1 tsp Kashmiri red chili powder
  • 2 tbsp garlic
  • 0.5 cup oil
  • 1 tbsp soya sauce
  • 1 tbsp tomato sauce
  • 2 tsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp honey
  • 2 tsp water
  • 2 tbsp chili oil
  • some oil
  • 1 cup water

Equipment

bowlpanspoonchopping boardknifeblender jarrolling pincookie cutter

Tips

  • Adding lemon peel gives a nice flavor to momos.
  • Hot oil and hot water are used to prepare the momo dough.
  • Restaurant follows these tricks to keep the momos' stuffing fresh for a long time.