Last week my neighbour gave me 4 big mangoes straight from her garden. I was ecstatic and was wondered how I can make the most of them. They were placed like a piece of art on my table for a few days. I allowed them to become semi-ripe and made good use of one mango in making these matris.
Few days ago I saw this recipe on TV where they were making little mango dumplings in a curd gravy. I tweaked the recipe to make these matris (in North India Matri refers to a kind of Biscuit made from a well-seasoned dough of wheat flour. Its usually deep fried and crunchy)
I tried my hand at this mango matri and was happy with the final taste. I actually baked the matris initially as that way they can be preserved for a few days. Whenever you want to eat them just deep fry in hot oil.
Please try finding a raw mango thats neither completely raw nor completely ripe. To make these matris a filling breakfast roll out the dough (poori-size) and deep fry. This is my entry to WBB#22, May Mango Madness hosted by Escapades.
Ingredients :
- 1 Semi-raw mango
- 3 tablespoons Gram Flour / Besan
- 1/2 cup Curds
- 1 teaspoon Chilly Powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Carom Seeds
- Pinch of Kasuri Methi
Procedure :
- Roast mango directly on the flame. Remove peel and mash into a pulp.
- To this add gram flour, carom seeds, chilly powder, salt, kasuri methi and hing. Make a paste by mixing in curds.
- Heat oil in a pan and fry this paste, stirring continuously till it becomes a lump and leaves the sides of the pan.
- Flatten this mixture on a greased surface with a rolling pin.
- Cut into desired shape and deep fry till golden brown.
Please NOTE:
- You can even bake them at 200 Deg for 15 mins. The time of bake however depends on how thin you make the matri. Do monitor and pull them out once they appear brown and crispy.
- Please Spread out the besan Dough on greased surface while its hot else you will not be able to get a thin layer of cookies.
- If your mango is too raw then use only half of it and add some sugar to the besan mix in Step (2).
Nice shapes…should have tasted great tooo
wow!! love matris and raw mango matris sounds delish…thanks for the entry and taking the time to send this in to WBB……see you at the round up!!
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Actually I used a cookie cutter to cut out the shapes. Kids love to eat their food in different shapes and I thought my baby (and I) could use a change from the standard round
I have not come across Matris before, so it’s totally new to me. It looks very good and cute. Are matris traditionally made with mangoes?
Madhu, actually matris are almost never made with raw mangoes in it. The dough usually contains maida, salt, carom seeds, oil and water. Biscuit-like shapes are made out of the dough and deep fried. Its a snack commonly had with tea in North-India.
Here is a recipe I found of the typical way of making matris :
http://www.gujarat.com/recipes/news.php?newsid=32
Well, search results take me back to Gujarati cuisine. I think its their staple food or matri probably originated from there.
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