Ingredients

• For dough:
• 500 gms - Flour
• 2 tbsp - Ghee
• 1/2 tsp - salt
• A pinch of bicarbonate of soda
• 1 cup - water approximately
• For the filling:
• 100 gms - Green peas
• 1 tsp - aniseed
• 1/8 tsp - onion seeds
• A pinch of black pepper, powdered
• 1/2 tsp - salt
• 1/2 tsp - sugar
• 1 tbsp - ghee Ghee for deep frying the kachoris.

How to Make Matar sutir kochuri (Luchis stuffed with peas)

• To make the filling, shell peas and grind to a dry paste. Heat ghee, add the pea paste and all the masalas, black pepper, salt and half a tsp. sugar. Stir thoroughly until peas and masalas are well blended and then remove from fire. Keep aside till dough is ready.
• Sieve the flour and add salt. Mix in the bicarbonate of soda.
• Add ghee and enough water to make dough.
• Knead till dough is soft and pliable. Divide into 16 portions and roll them into balls.
• Stuff each ball with a little of the filling.
• Seal carefully and roll out into rounds the same size as luchis but a little thicker.
• Deep fry as for luchi but fry each side a little longer.