Cuisine: Sikkim
Category: Snack
Prep: 40 min
Cook: 20 min
Serves: 4
Difficulty: Medium
🍗 Non-Vegetarian
Fried flat bread filled with minced meat — the Bhutia-Tibetan fried stuffed bread of Sikkim, similar to momo but pan-fried rather than steamed.
Ingredients
- For the dough:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Warm water — about 2/3 cup
- For the meat filling:
- 250g minced beef or pork
- 1 small onion — very finely chopped
- 1 tsp ginger — finely grated
- 3 garlic cloves — minced
- 2 green chillies — very finely chopped
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 2 spring onions — finely chopped
- Salt to taste
- Oil for shallow frying
Method
- Make the dough: mix flour and salt, add warm water and knead 8 minutes until smooth. Rest covered 30 minutes.
- Make the filling: mix minced meat with all filling ingredients thoroughly.
- Divide dough into 8 equal balls. Roll each into a 12 to 14 cm circle.
- Place 2 tbsp filling in the centre of each circle.
- Fold the dough over into a half-circle. Seal the edges by pressing and crimping firmly.
- Heat 2 tbsp oil in a wide pan on medium heat.
- Place the filled half-moon shaped sha phaley in the pan.
- Fry on medium heat for 4 to 5 minutes until the bottom is deep golden-brown. Flip carefully.
- Fry second side 4 to 5 minutes until golden.
- For a crispier version press down gently with a spatula during the last minute.
- Drain on paper towels. Serve hot with tomato chilli chutney.