Recipe- No Onion No Garlic Farali Kachori

Upvasache pattice / farali pattice is a popular Indian Fasting / Vrat / Upvas recipe made with coconut filling that is stuffed in potato covering. This is a vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, no onion no garlic recipe.

The recipe that I have shared here is made using freshly grated coconut along with basic spices & herbs.

These pattice are also called farali pattice, farali aloo pattice or upvasach pattice (upvasache padharth) and farali kachori.

Ingredients

4-5 Potatoes boiled
1/4th Cup Freshly scraed coconut
3-4 tbsp Sabudana flour (adjust as per the moisture in potatoes) OR Cornstarch (If not making for fast/ vrat / upvas)
2 teaspoon Jeera (Cumin Seeds)
1 tablespoon Raisins
1-2 teaspoon Green Chili finely chopped
1 tbsp Cashew nuts chopped
Salt or Rock Salt to taste
2 tablespoon Coriander Leaves chopped (Optional)
1/2 tsp Lemon Juice
1/2 tsp Sugar
Oil for frying

Method

- In a thick bottom pan, add the sabuana pearls and roast them on a medium flame for about 10-15 minutes.

- Cool them and grind to a powder.

- Our homemade sabudana flour is ready to use.

- In a mixing bowl, add scrapped fresh coconut, golden raisins, cashew nuts, salt, sugar,green chilli and mix well.

- Now it’s time to cook this mixture so that all the ingredients get well incorporated together and the sugar melts.

- Transfer the filling onto a plate and let it cool.

- Once cooled to lukewarm or room temperature, add lemon juice and finely chopped coriander leaves. Coriander leaves are optional here as some do not eat it during fast.

- In a bowl, add boiled, peeled and grated potatoes, sabudana flour and salt. Mix well.

- Here we need to made a stiff dough of potato and sabudana flour. Do not add any water in it.

- You may use arrowroot flour, varai flour, rajgira flour if you do not have sabudana flour.

- Now we have the stuffing ready and the covering. So let’s begin.

- Grease your palm with little oil. Take a golf ball size portion of potato mixture and make a cavity (dent) in center.

- Place a spoonful of stuffing in it. Seal the stuffing with potato mixture. Make sure to seal all the sides.

- Our pattice are ready for deep frying.

- In a plate spread some sabudana flour and roll the pattice in it. This method adds that extra crunch to these farali pattice.

- Deep fry the pattice in hot oil till golden brown. Fry them on a medium flame.

- Transfer the pattice onto an absorbent paper to drain excess oil.

- Farali Pattice is ready.

- Serve hot with curd, coconut chutney or peanut chutney.