This is my sister Jayshree's recipe of croquettes (fried muthia) and she has mastered this recipe of our mother's.
Ingredients
1 ½ cups Bhakhari flour or Lapasi flour (coarse whole wheat flour)
¼ cup chickpea flour
5 tablespoons oil
2 teaspoons salt or to taste
4 teaspoons sugar or to taste
1 teaspoon turmeric
½ teaspoon chili powder
⅛ teaspoon asafetida
½ bunch fenugreek greens, chopped or ½ bag of frozen fenugreek greens
3 teaspoons green chili, minced
2 teaspoons ginger, minced
2 tablespoons cilantro, finely chopped
½ cup yogurt (not Greek)
Water, as needed
Oil for frying
Directions
Wash fresh fenugreek in couple of changes of water. It tends to be quite gritty. Drain as much water as you can.
Combine flours, oil, salt, sugar and spices in a mixing bowl. Add remaining wet ingredients and form soft dough. If dough is too dry add some water.
Take about a tablespoon dough into hands and form about three inches oval shape (like a crocket) using hands. Repeat the process with remaining dough. It should make about 18 to 20 Muthia.
Heat oil in a wok or a frying pan until ready for frying. Fry 5 to 6 Muthia at a time until golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes. Serve warm with cilantro chutney as an appetizer.
Notes
You can use Soji (cream of wheat) instead of coarse wheat flour for this recipe. All these flours are easily available in Indian grocery stores. For frozen fenugreek greens (bitter greens), use one which is in loose form. You can also make this recipe with ½ small doodhi or 1 small zucchini, shredded.
Recipe by Lovely Masala at http://www.lovelymasala.com/recipe-gujarati-muthia/