Gold Bags
by Tarla Dalal
Dainty pouches filled with spicy vegetables and tied with a blade of lemon grass.
Gold Bags recipe - How to make Gold Bags
Preparation Time: Cooking Time: Preparation Time: 30 Cooking Time: 10 min. Total Time:
Makes 25 to 30 servings
For The Wrappers
1 1/2 cups plain flour (maida)
1/2 tsp salt
For The Filling
1 tsp chopped garlic (lehsun)
1 tsp chopped coriander (dhania)
1/2 tsp whole black peppercorns (kalimirch)
1 1/2 cups mashed potatoes
2 tbsp carrot , grated
2 tbsp roasted peanuts , ground
1 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
Other Ingredients
1 tbsp cornflour , mixed with water to make a paste
oil for deep-frying
Method
For the wrappers
For the filling
How to proceed
Handy tip:
For the wrappers
- For the wrappers
- Sieve the flour and salt together.
- Add the hot water gradually and make a soft dough.
- Knead for a while and keep aside for 30 minutes.
- Apply oil on your palm and knead the dough until it becomes smooth and elastic.
- Roll out thinly on a floured surface, using a rolling pin and cut into 25 to 30 squares of 75 mm. (3").
For the filling
- For the filling
- Pound the garlic, coriander and peppercorn in mortar to form a paste.
- In a bowl, mix the paste with the mashed potatoes, carrots, peanuts, soya sauce, sugar and salt. Mix throughly.
How to proceed
- How to proceed
- Place a spring roll sheet on a dry surface.
- Fold the gold bags as illustrasted in the diagram,refer handy tip.
- Deep fry in hot oil till golden brown.
- Drain and tie with a blade of lemon grass.
- Serve hot with a dip of your choice.
Handy tip:
- Handy tip:
- Spoon a little of the filling mixture in the centre of a wrapper square and gather all the 4 corners in the centre to form a pouch.
- Seal the centre of the fold with a little cornflour paste.
- Fluff out the gathers to make it look like a money bag.
- Roll the wrapper dough as thin as you can. The gold bags will look and taste better.
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Good and tasty. They came in the shape of wontons as USA wonton wrappers are small. I dont like mushrooms, so I substituted it with mix of broccoli stems (no florets), green zucchini and yellow squash which are close to in taste with mushrooms. For red chili powder, I substituted 1/2 tsp red chili sauce for the perfect Chinese/Thai taste.
Wow now it seems to be very tasty with novel idea and new look of money bag.
It is such a novel concept. kind of challenging to make but its delicious and delicate. Lovely finger food snack.