Vegetable Cutlets

Just cant get over the old days spent in my hometown where we almost used buy these to eat during tea time at home. I remember we never prepared Vegetable cutlets at home as its easily available so mom was like...'why to take the hurdle'....but here in Chennai have to, as we hardly find all these and even if we get it............I don't like much.

Vegetable Cutlets

Ingredients:

• 1 beet root
• 1 carrot
• Few ground nuts/peanuts
• 1 medium onion
• ½ tsp of ginger paste
• 1 tsp of cumin powder
• 2 tsp of coriander powder
• 2 tsp of red pepper powder
• 1 tsp of salt or as per taste
• 2-3 tbs of oil

For the Dough

• 2 boiled potatoes
• 2 bread slices
• 2 tbs of besan (chickpea flour )
• 1 tsp of cumin powder
• 1 tsp of coriander powder
• 1 tsp of red pepper powder
• Salt as per taste
• oil for frying the cutlets
  
  

Method:

• Wash the beet and carrot, peel them with peeler and then grate them finely.
• Heat up a kadhai , add oil, fry the onions till they become translucent .
• Add grated beetroot and carrot,ground nuts/peanuts and all the dry powders. Stir Fry at high for 4-5 mints.
• Take out in a separate vessel.
  
  

Make the dough for cutlets

• Make a soft dough out of 2 boiled potato, 2 slices of bread and little bit of besan or gram flour , add little more of coriander powder, cumin powder, red pepper powder and salt. Now make 7-8 small portions and roll into small balls
• Grease your hand with oil, now take one rolled ball and slightly flatten in your palm, oil the flatten dough little bit and place the mixture in between , now cover the mixture with the dough evenly while working with both the palms and fingers. Make similar cutlets with the rest of the mixture and dough.
• Refrigerate the cutlets for 2-3 hrs.
• Heat up a kadhai, add oil and place the cutlets in the kadhai, fry the cutlets on both the side, 2 cutlets at a time.
• Take out and drain in paper towels. Enjoy them with evening tea or serve them as great appetizers in Parties.

Tips: Refrigerating the cutlets will help the cutlets to firm up the shape and also it will require little less of oil for deep fry.