CHICKEN MOMO

This is a delicious Tibetan non-veg dish which is very special and unique. It needs little ingredients and can be served as a side dish or as a snack.

INGREDIENTS
Chicken breast pieces- 500-600 grams
Onion -250-300 grams
Green chillies - 5-10 or more according to personal taste
Flour - 300-400 grams or 3-4 cups
Salt-3 tsp
White oil- 1tbsp

PROCEDURE

Debone( making boneless) the chicken breast pieces. Cut into pieces and wash the meat well. Keep in a colander for 30 minutes smeared with a little salt. After 30 minutes mince the meat in a mixer. Cut the onions (thinly sliced and further cut) into small pieces. Slice the chillies( very thinly). Mix the minced meat, onions, chillies and 1 tsp salt and keep in a colander for 30 minutes. Meanwhile mix the flour with half tsp salt and 1tbsp white oil. Knead with water into a dough (neither soft nor hard). Divide into small balls. Roll out balls into flat circles of 3-4 inch diameter. Prick circles in 4-5 places with a fork. Place more than a tsp of meat mixture on the middle of the circle.Put a little water on the side or border of the circle. Curl up the sides and gather like a frill -into a half circle. Press the sides. The meat should remain inside with all the sides sealed nicely. Prepare momos till all the meat has been used up. Keep momos well covered while preparing them (rolling dough and filling momos) . Now, bring water to boil in a steamer *(a vessal where water is boiled in the lower portion and the upper portion has holes - over which the object to be cooked is placed) .you can also use a momo steamer. Put as many momos as you can without overlapping (one layer only). Steam for 30 minutes. If you wish, you can boil the minced meat before mixing it with onions etc. In this case you need to steam the momos for only 15 minutes.
Prepare a special chillie sauce to be served with momos. Take 10-15 dry red chillies (crisped in sun or roasted in micro oven for 30 seconds). Grind to a powder in mixer- at high speed for 2-3 minutes. Add venegar(enough to make a thin paste) and one fourth tsp salt. Grind for one more minute. The sauce is ready.
Take out momos from steamer just before serving. Serve momos with the special chillie sauce.You can also serve a chicken soup along with the momos.

Serves-4-5 persons
* A steamer is a vessal with boiler at the bottom and colander like vessel/vessels placed over it. Here the food is cooked only in steam (water does not touch the food).

Posted by Keya