This money bag has been specially made with the vegetable we are celebrating all this month in JFI , Bell Peppers!
Bell pepper is amongst the tastiest vegetables I have come across. Typically available in a green color and goes onto being found in other technicolor versions like red, orange and yellow. It can make your dishes really colorful and attractive. Interestingly, all colors of bell peppers taste different. If you ever happen to have all of them try making Baked Vegetables . It will highlight the taste of each of them. Enjoy a different taste in each bite!
My husbands all time favorite capsicum dish is Bharwa Shimla Mirch. I usually make this one when I have guests over for dinner (only constraint is that one needs to find the really small capsicums to stuff).
Last Sunday, at the super market I found the freshest button mushrooms I have ever seen. I bought them and began wondering what the best way to use them would be. I thought of experimenting with the Money Bag Savory I really liked in Daily Breads (A leading Bakery Chain in Bangalore). They usually stuff it with mixed vegetables but one can always fill it with veggies of one’s choice. I love the taste of capsicums with mushrooms and onions.
I got cracking on these money bags and found them to be very easy to make. They can be deep fried too but I prefer baking them as that way they are lower in calories and many can be made at one shot.
Ingredients :
Stuffing :
- 6-7 button mushrooms
- 1 onions
- 1 tomatoes
- 1/2 capsicum
- 6 Garlic pods , fine chopped
- Salt, pepper seasoning
Dough :
- 2 cups Maida
- 3/4 cup Butter
- Salt (to taste)
Procedure :
For the Stuffing:
- Heat Oil. Add garlic and fry. Add onions, finely chopped and fry till they turn glossy.
- Now add tomatoes and fry well till the paste leaves the sides of the pan.
- Add capsicum, mushrooms and cook till they turn soft.
- Add salt, pepper and mix well.
For the Money Bag :
- Knead with dough ingredients with some water to make a soft dough.
- Apply oil and roll out the dough with the help of a rolling pin.
- Fill in the mushroom stuffing and pull up the sides of the dough to resemble a money bag.
- In a preheated oven bake money bags for 15 mins at 200 deg C.
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Roma the money bags look very cute. The stuffing also sounds very nice, I think we can have that alone as side dish for chapathis. It’s 2 in 1 then. I have not tried baking samsoas so far. How do they come out? One of my friend told me that the maida did not cook properly and had raw smell.
Thanks so much , Hetal! I liked your blog too, specially the slide show and presentation of recipes in a photo-like format.
Madhu, you are absolutely right. I actually did use the stuffing to eat with rotis and it was tasty. I have not tried baking samosas but I think it will be very similar to these money bags.
It will be cooked well if we follow these steps :
1) Firstly, we need to add a good quantity of butter to the dough. When we deep fry we add very less oil to the dough as we are frying it in oil. Here, since we are baking and there is no outside oil to aid in cooking the dough needs to have a lot more butter or fat in it.
2) The baking time has to be till the samosa starts turning golden brown.
3)The layer of dough in which we wrap the filling should not be too thick
These simple steps might get rid of the raw maida smell. Hope this helps.
thank you Roma for this nice entry , could you please send the pic too ? I think you forgot that . check out the rules for size of it.
Thanks once again for being a part of Bell pepper celebration
Thanks Roma, I will try it one of these days following your tips and also pass it on to my friend.
Thanks for explaning in length on how to make vegetable Samosa. I like to have printed copy in front of me when making Gulab Jumun. That way I do not have to keep going back the tape. Much appriciated.