Veg stuffed kolukattai / South Indian momos

     As usual yesterday night before sleeping, i asked my daughter what breakfast I should prepare tomorrow... When i suggested some she refused one by one and lastly she asked " mom why cant you  prepare momos...." .. I never tried momos in home, it shapes used to be so attractive, my kids love sed to order it in hotels, but i never liked the taste much... In morning time making shapes like that etc will consume more time, being working day for all, i cant try it.... I slept without further thinking.. Morning only this idea came to my mind, I saw this recipe in a TV program, some Hindi channel, but i watched it since it looked like our kolukattai... Registered recipe in mind... But forget about it later.... Today i thought can try that and serve it as momos and see kids reaction.... Even whem am preparing sye came running to kitchen and seeing me placing them in steamer, she asked mom momos used to look like fried, but why you steaM? I replied, no momos are steamed only... Further it wont take exact like momo you eat in hotel, since this is South Indian version of momos, even will taste better... She said ok and went... After getting ready to school, i served it... She told why am serving with two chutneys and she want to eat it with sauce... So i served it with sauce to her... Waited for her reaction, she was so happy and told super taste mom, please pack this for lunch too , i need to show this to my frds.... Ok let us move to the recipe.....

Ingredients

Rice flour  or kolukattai flour - 1 cup

Onion - 1

Potato - 1 

Carrot - 1

Cabbage - 1/4 cup

Green peas -  1/4 cup

Asafoetida - small pinch

Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp

Heeng (asafoetida) - 1 pinch

Ginger - 1" piece

Green chilly - 1 (finely chopped)

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Red chilli powder - 1 tsp

Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp

Mango powder - 1/4 tsp

Garama masala - 1/2 tsp

Salt and oil - as needed

Heat 1 1/2 cups of water. 2 tsp oil in 1 cup boiling water. Now add the rice flour , salt and mix. Turn off the gas. keep aside for 5 minutes so that it becomes soft. Transfer it to another bowl and knead till soft like we do for chappathi. Cover and keep aside for 20 minutes.

In mean time prepare vegetable stuffing. All vegetables should be chopped so nice. I steamed it in oven. You can steam it for few minutes and keep aside. Add oil to a pan , add hing and Cumin seeds !mthen add onion, turmeric powder, green chilly, ginger and saute. Add coriander powder and mix. Now add steamed vegetables.While stirring all ingredients, fry the vegetables for 2 minutes. Add 2-3 spoons water, cover the pan as you cook it on a low flame. Add Garam masala, mango powder. The filling is ready.

 Apply some oil to hand and knead the dough to soft. Make balls out of the dough. Take one ball and spread it with hands, place filling and close properly. Similarly make all balls. Steam it in idly pan or steamer till colour of balls become shiny.

Take out and serve hot with green chutney or tomato sauce or tomato chutney.