Phara - My mother recipe

Phara : Soft wheat dumplings (stuffed with veg, stuffed with jagri and plain) dipped in Lentil.

Preparation time: 1hrs 30min.
Serving: 4


1. Veg filling for dumplings : Take following vegetables carrots (4 large) , potatoes(2), cabbage(0.25,1/4th), cauliflower(0.24,1/4) and spinach(100g). You can take any other vegetables as per your choice for filling. I would grate carrots, cabbage and and cut other vegitables in very small peices. Prepare it as normal sabzi. Put some oil in fry pan, add zeera ones heated, now add spices (turmeric powder(1tsp), coriander powder(2 tsp), salt as per taste), add all vegitables. Fry it till it dry and brown, now add amchur 1 tsp and garam masals 1/4 tsp. Mix it very well, and keep it aside till it become cold.

2. Prepare wheat flour dough as same as for roti or puri. Roll dough to small roti, add some veg fillings and fold it like "gujiya". Wet the corners and fold it, keep it aside. Make it around 8-10 and cover it with wet cotton cloth.

3. Use same dough and add some jagri and flod like Gujiya. Fold it differently so that you can distinguse between sweet and veg dumpilngs. Make it around 4-6.

4. Make some roti (not cooked) from the dough, make it around 8-10.

5. For Making Dal: Soacked Chana dal (1 cup) and Arhar dal (1 cup), mix it and boil it in pressure cooker. Make is just like normal tadka dal but keep it more water. We used to add temrid, and chilli. Also we do tadka with musterd seeds.

6. Once Dal is ready, while it is boiling put all dumplings and rotis in the dal. And boil it for 10-15 mins while they becom soft.

7. Serve it hot and put some ghee. Many people don't like spicy so I make special tadka of ghee and chill and put on the top of it and mix it.