Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Vegetable Cutlet

Cutlet is a famous appetizer in any indian restaurent. It serves a healthy snack loaded with vegetables. Its an easy-to-cook kid recipe and absolutely delicious. One could enjoy the cutlets in any get together.



Ingredients:

Carrots grated - 1/2 cup
beans chopped - 1/2 cup
peas - 1/2 cup
cabbage chopped - 1/2 cup
potatoes medium sized - 2
onions chopped -1/2 cup
ginger - 2 inch piece
green chillies - 6
Garam masala - 1tsp
bread - 4 slices
bread crumbs - 1/2 cup
corn flour - 2 tbsp
Maida - 1 tsp


Preparation of the cutlets:

1. Steam cook the vegetables. I add all the vegetables except potatoes to the iddli plates and steam cook for 10 - 15 minutes in the cooker.
2. Add water to a bowl with the potatoes whose skins are peeled. Microwave the potatoes for 5 minutes
3. Mash the potatoes and keep it aside
4. Make a paste of ginger and green chillies
5. Heat oil in a pan and fry the onions. After it turns trasnlucent, add the paste from 4
6. Next add the steam cooked vegetables and the mashed potatoes.
7. Add the garam masala and salt to this mixture.
8. Remove the pan from the stove and let it cool.
9. Immerse the 4 bread slices in water and crush the bread to remove the water.
10. Add this crushed bread, corn flour and half of the bred crumbs to the mixture and make it like a chappatti dough.
11. Make a small ball out of this dough and flatten it to the cutlet shape and touch it with maida and breadcrumbs and deep fry in oil.
12. Serve hot with tomato ketchup

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