Street Food Series: Homemade Chicken Momos Recipe

Healthy tea time snack momos made easy at home. These momos store upto 2 weeks frozen, we can reheat and serve with chai.

Momos is a nepali style dumpling which gained popularity in the city, one can find many tibetan and nepali community women set up shops by evening and sell steaming hot momos by dozen for 150/- rupees. Due to lockdown all our streetfood has to be recreated at home, I'm sharing my recipe for momo which turned out exactly like the ones I buy regularly 😊

Chicken Momos Recipe Video on Vidyascooking 😊

Ingredients:
Filling:
150 Grams Chicken (Boneless Cubes)
1 Cup Cabbage
1/4 Cup Carrot
1/2 Cup Spring Onion
4 Green Chilies
1 Inch Ginger
5 Cloves Garlic
1/2 Cup Onion
1 Tbsp Soya Sauce
1 Tsp Garam Masala
1 Tsp Curry Powder or Momo Masala Powder
1 Tsp MSG (Ajinomoto)
3 Tbsp Sesame Oil or Groundnut Oil
Salt as per taste

Dough:
250 Grams Maida (All Purpose Flour)
1 Tsp Baking Powder
1 Tbsp Salt
2 Cups Warm Water
2 Tbsp Oil

Method:
Wash the chicken pieces and drain excess water using a colander.

Wash and roughly chop all the veggies. Peel and wash garlic and ginger.

Peel and wash spring onions. Separate the onion bulbs roughly chop and reserve.

In a small coffee blender jar add carrot, ginger, garlic, chilies and coriander, pulse twice and place on one speed and grind to form a powder format.

Transfer the ground mixture to a mixing bowl. In the same mixer jar add onion, chilies, spring onion leaves plus the onion bulbs and coriander, pulse twice and grind on one speed.

Transfer the spring onion masala to the bowl. Using the same mixer jar add cabbage leaves in two batches and pulse to form powder format and transfer to a mixing bowl.

In the same mixer jar add chicken, pulse twice and grind on one speed to form smooth mince and reserve on a plate.

Combine the mince with veggies. Add the soya sauce and masalas combine well and heat 3 tbsp sesame oil till smoking and add to the meat mix all ingredient and reserve.

We have not add salt at this point only when making momos we will add salt to the filling.

In a mixing bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt first.

Add warm water and knead to form a soft dough.

Add 2 tbsp oil and knead well for few more minutes, cover and allow to rest for 10 minutes.

Once the dough has rested for 10 minutes, knead for few more minutes. Form roundles and dip the roundles in flour. Place on a flat surface and roll to form even rotis.

Place a steamer on medium flame with enough water or we can steam cook these in a idli stand. I'm using a Tupperware steamit basket to cook my momos.

Using a lid or a cookie cutter cut out the dough into even circles. Place 1/2 Tbsp filling in the middle of cut out circle and fold to form a dumpling, pinch and seal the edges, repeat and prepare a dozen of these bite size dumplings and reserve.

Once the steamer is ready, brush the surface or base of the steam-cooker with a light coating of oil and start placing the momos. make sure to keep the momos apart and not to pile all at once. Steam cook these dumplings for 5 minutes on high flame.

Serve these dumpling hot with mayo, chilly garlic sauce and chilly sauce...Enjoy with Chai 😊