Broccoli Aloo Tikki

 Ingredients:

• Potato med size - 3
• Broccoli - 2 cup cut into florets
• Grated cheese - 6 tbsp
• Bread crumbs - from 2 slices of toasted bread
• Chaat masala - 3 teaspoon
• Garam masala - 1 teaspoon
• Chilli powder - 1 teaspoon
• Turmeric - 0.5 tsp
• Roasted cumin powder - 2 teaspoon
• Black pepper - 3 teaspoon crushed
• Salt - As needed
• Oil - As needed

Method:

• Cook and mash potatoes. Drain potatoes well.
• Steam broccoli until soft and coarsely grind it in a food processor with no water added.
• Mix the mashed potatoes and ground broccoli and the rest of the ingredients together in a bowl (except oil).
• Divide into equal portions and make equal sized balls out of it. Flatten to form tikkis.
• Heat a pan with few drops of oil and place the tikkies over it. Cook over medium flame both sides until golden layer forms.
• Serving option: Serve as mini burgers with burger buns, lettuce and ketchup.

Channa Cutlet

During the weekend one of our friends made a surprise visit to our home. I wanted to make something for evening snacks. This particular friend prefers Indian food to baked goods. So I was mentally ruffling through all the snack recipes that I could make. And then, decided on making some cutlets. I have tried cutlets previously and failed miserably.  So I wanted to try something simple, with the ingredients I had at hand.

My mom gave me some recipe books when I got married and moved to Singapore. I refer to them from time to time. So now I searched for one of them and found a good and simple recipe for Channa cutlets.

Usually the channa has to soak overnight. But since I didn’t have time to prepare ahead, I soaked the channa in hot water inside my hot pack. I kept changing the hot water every hour or so, and it was good to go within 3 hours.

Then I made the patties and stored them in the freezer, until my guests arrived. I fried and served them hot with ketchup. And our friends really enjoyed it. It was a treat for all of us, since I don’t usually make deep fried foods often.  My husband and his friend were leaving to go play some games with their other guy friends. So I packed some cutlets for the other guys too. But turns out the hubby and his friend finished half of the cutlets in the car on the way to the games. Hahaha, anyway that just goes to say how good these cutlets are.

Channa Cutlets:

Ingeriendts:

Channa – 1 cup

Potato - 2 Medium

Ginger – 1 inch piece

Garlic – 8 pieces

Green chilli – 4

Onion – 1

Coriader – 1 handful

Lemon Juice – 1 tablesp

Garam Masala – 2 teasp

Oil – for frying

Salt – as needed

Maida – 3 table sp

Bread crumbs – 1 cup

Directions: 

·         Soak channa for 5-6 hours.

·         Pressure cook the channa and potatoes for 10 minutes, and mash them well.

·         Cut the ginger, garlic, onion, green chillies and the coriander very finely.

·         Mix the lemon juice, garam masala, and salt, maida along with the onion, green chilli, ginger, garlic and coriander.

·         Mix the mashed channa and potatoes along with everything else.

·         Make into small patties.

·         Dip the patties in some maida mixed with water, and roll in bread crumbs.

·         Deep fry until golden brown.

Aloo Tikki

I have always wanted to make cutlets. But thought it a huge task. These are an easy version of the deep fried cutlets. I shallow fried them in a pan with very little oil. Came across this recipe in a recipe book a long long time ago. Finally gave it a try.

These were too good! Hubby loves potatoes, so he was sampling the tikkies as they were coming out of the pan! But these tikkies have to be eaten hot, otherwise they get a bit soggy, as with all cutlets. Unfortunately I made this a bit early, and my guest was also running a bit late. Even though I tried heating them up in the microwave, they were still soggy. So I would suggest making the patties earlier and store them in the fridge, and cook them after your guests arrive.

Aloo Tikkies

Ingredients:

4 – Big mashed Potatoes

2 – Slices of bread ( soaked in water and squeezed dry)

1 tsp – Pepper Powder

½ tsp – Garam Masala

1 tsp – Chilli Powder

Juice of half a small lime

Salt – to taste

Oil – as required

Method:

·         Crumble the soaked bread slices well.

·         Add all the ingredients, except oil together in a bowl, and mix well.

·         Make small round patties of the mixture.

·         Heat a shallow pan on medium flame.

·         Add little oil and fry the patties until golden brown on both sides.

·         Serve with ketchup/Pudhina Chutney.