Friday, December 12, 2014

Vegetable Cutlet


Prep Time: 20 min
Cooking Time:

Ingredients:
  1. Potatoes : 3 medium 
  2. Onion :1 big 
  3. Carrot : 1 big
  4. Beetroot: 1 small
  5. French Beans: 4 stalks
  6. Tomato : 1 medium pureed 
  7. Ginger: 1/2" piece skinned and minced/crushed and chopped
  8. Garlic: 4 pods skinned and crushed with base of a chef knife
  9. Green Chilli: 1( about 4 " long) use more if you have smaller chillies
  10. Curry leaves: 1 stalk 
  11. Coriander leaves: Finely chopped 1/4 cup 
  12. Fresh peas : 1/2 cup 
  13. salt to taste (approx 1 tsp total) 
  14. Bread Crumbs or Rava 1/2 cup 
  15. Oil : 2 tsp [Coconut/ Canola/Palm Oil]
  16. Oil for frying.
 Masala: 
  1. Turmeric Powder : 1/2 teaspoon 
  2. Chilli Powder : 1/2 teaspoon 
  3. Corriander powder : 1 teaspoon
  4. Pepper : 1 teaspoon 
  5. Garam Masala : 1/2 teaspoon

Prep
  1. Boil and peel potatoes and mash them 
  2. Finely chop onions, chillies, and curry leaves together
  3. Finely chop all other vegetables except peas and keep aside
  4. Microwave all vegetables along with peas in a covered MSF bowl with 1/2 tsp salt added for 3 mins at medium setting [540W] or steam for 5 mins 
  5. Heat oil in a wok/kadai 
  6. Saute Onion+chilies+curry leaves till onion becomes slightly transparent
  7. Add ginger and garlic to this and saute 1-2 mins ( Ginger garlic paste [ 1 1/2 tsp]   maybe used but freshly crushed ginger and garlic gives more flavor) 
  8. Add all masala ingriedients except pepper powder and saute for one more minute
  9. Add tomato puree and salt and saute for 2 mins 
  10. Add pepper powder and keep aside to cool
  11. Mix together mashed potatoes , microwaved vegetables Coriander leaves  and Sauteed masala from step 10 in a bowl 
  12. Shape into small round cutlets/patties 
  13. Roll in bread crumbs or rava and shallow fry or grill for crunchy vegetable cutlets
  14. grill for 6 minutes,then turn aside,grill again for 4 minutes.

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