Warqi Lukhmi is a Hyderabadi special street food snack, the traditional version are non veg but here is a veg version. This is a traditional starter from Nizami cuisine. They are flaky and delicious to have with tea or coffee.
Author: Manjula Bharath
Recipe type: Snacks Recipe
Cuisine: Nizami Cuisine
Serves: 6
Ingredients
For Outer Cover
All purpose flour - 2 cups + For dusting
Butter - 3 tbsp + 2 tbsp
Cardamom pd - ¼ tsp
Butter Milk - 1½ cups
Salt to taste
For Filling
Potato - 2 Nos ( Boiled)
Beans - ½ cup ( Finely chopped)
Carrot - ½ cup ( Finely chopped)
Green chillies - 2 Nos ( finely chopped)
Ginger paste - 1tsp
Red chilli pd - ½ tsp
Turmeric pd - ¼ tsp
Coriander pd - 1 tsp
Cumin pd - ¼ tsp
Garam masala - ¼ tsp
Lemon Juice - 1 tsp
Cardamom pd - ¼ tsp
Oil - 1 tbsp
Salt to taste
Instructions
For Outer Cover
In a bowl Mix all purpose flour, Butter ( 3 tbsp), salt , cardamom pd well.
Add butter milk and knead to pliable dough.
Cover and rest it for half hour, then knead the dough till smooth .
Roll the dough using a rolling pin into rectangle and spread the butter all over the dough.
Sprinkle some flour do a book fold , Fold from top to ⅓ third and bottom part over the top.
Cover it in a cling wrap chill for 20 mins, again remove it from the fridge and roll them to rectangle.
Spread some butter sprinkle some flour all over and do the fold again. Do this step totally 3 times.
After 3 times roll the dough to rectangle again cut them to rectangle strips .
For Stuffing
Grate the boiled potatoes and mash them well.
In a pan heat oil, add in green chillies and ginger paste.
Saute them well add chopped French beans and carrots , saute them till they are cooked well.
Add red chilli pd, turmeric pd, coriander pd , cumin pd, garam masala , salt and Mix them till combined.
Add mashed potatoes and mix the mixture till the masalas get coated coated on the mashed potatoes.
Once combined well turn off the heat and let the stuffing cool to room temperature.
To make lukhmi
In the retagular strips place the filling in one side, brush water in the corners.
Seal the other side over the filling well either by pressing the corners or using a fork.
Do the same for the rest of strips and fillings.
Heat oil in a frying pan , Once hot drop in the Lukhmi and fry them in a now temperature till light brown.
Flip in equal intervals so that they cook well from both sides.
Transfer them to a kitchen towel , serve them warm with any chutney or sauce.
Recipe by Desi Fiesta at https://www.desifiesta.com/2018/04/warqi-lukhmi-recipe-hyderabadi-warqi-lukhmi-veg-version.html