BAKED MASALA BAATIS

Ingredients :

For the filling :

Green peas boiled and mashed – ½ cup

Salt to taste

Green chilli ginger paste – 3 tbsp

Chaat masala – 1 tbsp

Hing – 1 pinch

Jeera – 1 tsp

Oil – 1 tsp

Coriander powder – ½ tbsp.

For the outer covering :

Wheat flour – 1 cup

Rawa – ½ cup

Ghee – ¼ cup

Salt to taste\

Milk – ½ cup

Method :

For the covering :

1)     In a wide vessel add the wheat flour, rawa, salt, ghee and milk and form a firm tight dough, keep it in a wet muslin cloth and keep aside for 20 mins

2)     In a pan take oil splutter jeera and hing

3)     Add the mashed green peas and the ginger chilli mixture and mix well

4)     Add salt, coriander powder and chaat masala, mix well, keep aside

5)     Make cricket size balls out of the covering (I got 6 out of this measure)

6)     Make slightly smaller size balls out of the filling

7)     Roll the covering to a small puri (it would be a bit difficult as firstly it is tight and secondly theres rawa in the mixture)

8)     Place the filling and seal it well

9)     Make a small thumb indent on the opposite side of the sealed side

10) Put all these in boiling water and boil carefully turning them for 15-20 mins

11) Cool them completely

12) Line them in a greased baking tray, brush ghee over them and bake them in 180 degrees for 40-45 mins turning them around every 5-7 mins till it becomes nice and brown

13) Break this and serve it with hot dal