Sikkim Style Steamed Chicken Momo Recipe

Step 1: To prepare Sikkim Style Steamed Chicken Momo Recipe, get prep with all the ingredients

Step 2: To make the doughIn a mixing bowl, take maida and whole wheat flours, add water slowly and knead to form a medium stiff dough

Step 3: Not very sticky and not very smooth

Step 4: Keep covered for 2 hours before making Chicken Momos

Step 5: For the fillingHeat Saucepan on medium heat, add oil and add in chopped garlic and saute till they soften

Step 6: Add chopped onion and saute for few minutes

Step 7: Cook until it turns translucent

Step 8: Add in chopped mushroom and green chillies and saute for 5 more minutes until the mushroom sweats out

Step 9: After 5 minutes add in chicken pieces and cook until the chicken is cooked tender

Step 10: This will take about 5 minutes

Step 11: Finally add in soy sauce and teaspoon of sugar and mix well

Step 12: Switch off the heat, and allow it to cool down

Step 13: For the chicken momosTake a bamboo dimsum maker, or the regular idli steamer

Step 14: First divide dough into equal portions, to the size of a tennis balls

Step 15: Roll out small balls to a circle shape and cut the flattened dough with a circular disc or a cookie cutter, to keep the dimsums uniform

Step 16: You can also roll out the dough without cutting them, like it is traditionally done in Assam and Tibet

Step 17: In every flatten dough leaf, add 1 tablespoon of filling and fold the edges to semi circles and pinch the edges by giving the dimsum its characteristic pleats

Step 18: Do the same with all keeping shaped momo

Step 19: Keep the dough and completed dimsums before steaming, under a moist cloth to prevent drying

Step 20: Grease the steamer with oil or place butter paper before placing momo from prevent sticking

Step 21: If using traditional steamer it has own boiler or if using bamboo steamer then boil water in a shallow pan and when water start boiling put momo filled bamboo steamer on it

Step 22: Steam for 10 - 15 minutes and serve hot Sikkim Style Steamed Chicken Momo Recipe with homemade garlic tomato sauce and warm thukpa