Moong Bean Fritters

moong bean fritters 

Deep fried mung bean fritters famous food from the streets of Delhi. Here fritters stuffed with jaggery-coconut mixture, these are really tasty and very nutritious too.

Ingredients

Boiled green gram                     1 cup

Boiled Bengal gram                   1 cup

Mango powder                          1 tsp

Salt                                          to taste

Roasted cumin powder              1 tsp

Fennel cardamom powder          1 tsp

For garnish

Fennel-cardamom powder

Boiled bengal gram      

Boiled green gram

Method

Take a blender, put boiled green gram, boiled Bengal gram, salt, mango powder, fennel-cardamom powder, sugar and blend in roughly paste.

boiled moong and gram in blender with other ingredients

Remove the paste in a mixing bowl, add red chilli powder, roasted cumin powder and mix well.

add powder masala into ground paste 

In another bowl mix jaggery and grated coconut.

jaggery coconut mixture

Now make small balls of the grounded mixture, stuff it with jaggery-coconut mixture and give shapes of tikkis.

Then sprinkle all purpose flour over them.

sprinkle flour over tikkis 

Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the tikkis until brown on low flame.

Remove them on tissue.

fried moong bean fritters

Add fennel-cardamom powder in remaining jaggery-coconut mixture and place it in serving plate.

add fennel-cardamom powder into jaggery mixture for ganish

Place the moong-bean fritters beside it.

garnish the moong bean fritters 

Garnish with boiled green gram, Bengal gram and cardamom powder.