Sikkim Style Steamed Chicken Momo Recipe

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Ingredients

1/8 cup Portobello mushrooms - finely chopped,1 teaspoon Sugar,4 cloves Garlic - minced,Salt - to taste,1-1/2 cups Whole Wheat Flour,1/2 cups All Purpose Flour (Maida),1/2 cup Onion - finely chopped,Water - as needed,450 grams Chicken - chopped or shredded finely,5 Green Chillies - chopped,1 tablespoon Sunflower Oil,1/4 cup Cabbage (Patta Gobi/ Muttaikose) - finely chopped,2 tablespoons Soy sauce

Instructions

To prepare Sikkim Style Steamed Chicken Momo Recipe, get prep with all the ingredients.To make the doughIn a mixing bowl, take maida and whole wheat flours, add water slowly and knead to form a medium stiff dough. Not very sticky and not very smooth.Keep covered for 2 hours before making Chicken Momos.For the fillingHeat Saucepan on medium heat, add oil and add in chopped garlic and saute till they soften. Add chopped onion and saute for few minutes. Cook until it turns translucent. Add in chopped mushroom and green chillies and saute for 5 more minutes until the mushroom sweats out. After 5 minutes add in chicken pieces and cook until the chicken is cooked tender. This will take about 5 minutes. Finally add in soy sauce and teaspoon of sugar and mix well. Switch off the heat, and allow it to cool down. For the chicken momosTake a bamboo dimsum maker, or the regular idli steamer.First divide dough into equal portions, to the size of a tennis balls.Roll out small balls to a circle shape and cut the flattened dough with a circular disc or a cookie cutter, to keep the dimsums uniform. You can also roll out the dough without cutting them, like it is traditionally done in Assam and Tibet.In every flatten dough leaf, add 1 tablespoon of filling and fold the edges to semi circles and pinch the edges by giving the dimsum its characteristic pleats.Do the same with all keeping shaped momo. Keep the dough and completed dimsums before steaming, under a moist cloth to prevent drying.Grease the steamer with oil or place butter paper before placing momo from prevent sticking.If using traditional steamer it has own boiler or if using bamboo steamer then boil water in a shallow pan and when water start boiling put momo filled bamboo steamer on it.Steam for 10 - 15 minutes and serve hot Sikkim Style Steamed Chicken Momo Recipe with homemade garlic tomato sauce and warm thukpa.

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