Thursday, November 27, 2014

LACHHA TOKRI (NEST CHAT)

Ingredients :

For the nest  :

Potatoes : 2 medium sized
Corn Flour  : 1 tbsp
Salt : 1 tsp
Oil for deep frying

For the filling :

Boiled Potatoes  : 1
Tamarind Chutney : half tbsp
Curd : 2 tbsp
Salt to taste
Baarik Sev : 3 tbsp
Red Chilly Powder to taste .

Method :

1.For the nest , peel and grate the potatoes and wash them well .Add corn flour , salt and water so that potatoes gets dipped in the water .

2. Keep the grated potatoes in refrigerator for half an hour .
3. Take out the grated potatoes and squeeze them well with your palm and place these on a stainless steel sieve .

4. Cover these grated potatoes by another sieve of same size and again squeeze well so that excess water drains off .
5. Hold the corner of both the sieves together and put the sieve in hot oil for deep frying the nest .

6. As the potatoes become light brown in colour , remove the top sieve .
7. Once you feel that the potatoes are cooked to a extent that it will not spread in the frying vessel on turning the bottom sieve , turn the bottom sieve .
8. Press lightly the sieve with a big spoon or rolling pin , so that the nest separates from the sieve .


9. Cook for another one minute and take out the nest .

Filling :

1.Coarsely chop the boiled potatoes and put them on nest , top it with tamarind chuutney , whisked curd , salt , red chilly powder and baarik sev . Serve immediately , otherwise the nest will become soft .


Note :

1.Filling depends on personal taste , finely chopped onions , corainder leaves , green chutney , pomogranate kernels can be added .

2. Bird can be made with mashed and boiled potato .Roll the boil potato in two different sizes , one for the body of the bird and other face .

3. Place mustard seeds or onion seeds for eyes and end of dried red chilly for the beak of the bird .
Place the bird in the nest . This serves as a very good decorative piece .






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