Monday 24 August 2009

Bajiya

Ingredients:

For the dough;

2 cups flour
1 & 1/2 cups water
1 tablespoon oil
salt

For the filling;

2 cans tuna fish
1 large onion (sliced thinly)
1 lemon (squeezed)
2 green chillies (chopped) '
Cinnamon
5 curry leaves (chopped finely)
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp curry powder
Cardamon
Oil


Method:

For the dough;

First, mix in the flour, oil and salt. Add in the hot water and mix the dough. Roll it into a ball and leave aside.

For the filling;

Mix the half the chopped onion, lime juice and chillies thoroughly. Add in the tuna. In the meantime heat a saucepan, add oil and onions. Cook till soft. Add the cardammon and cinamon.
Stir them all together, and add the mixed tuna fish mixture and curry powder. Cook them all for 3 minutes. Finally add in the sugar. Leave for a few minutes.

Take a piece of the dough and roll it out flat. Cut a triangle out. Place some of the fish mixture in the centre. Pull the bottom two corners of the triangle together to the centre and stick together with a bit of water. Stick the topmost corner to the centre. Repeat for the rest. Deep fry till golden brown.


Note: You can substitute the Tuna with chicken or vegetables according to personal preference.

2 comments:

rimi said...

I was just thinking abt making it today and wondering how on earth am i gonna do it until this wonderful recipe just popped up *lol*
Thanks :D

Anonymous said...

BAJIYA. Yum yum... It looks like so much work but im sure id be so tempted im going to end up making it soon :D