Vegetable cutlet

 

Ingredients:

1. Potatoes – 2 medium  (boiled and mashed)
2. Mixed Vegetables – 1.5 cups (like green peas, carrots, green beans, corn, etc)
3. Onions – 1/4 medium (finely chopped or grated)
4. Ginger & Garlic - 1 tblsp (minced)
5. Green Chillies – 2 (finely chopped)
6. Coriander leaves – 2 tblsp (finely chopped)
7. Lemon Juice  – 2 tsp
8. Red Chilli Powder – 1/2 tsp or to taste
9. Roasted Cumin Powder – 1/2 tsp
10. turmeric powder 1/4th tspn
11. Salt – to taste
12. Rawa to cover cutlet
13. Oil – for frying

Procedure

1. Boil the potatoes and drain them soon to avoid them from absorbing water. Peel and mash it and keep aside.
2. Finely chop or grate the other veggiesor you can chop it in a food processor.
3. Boil the vegetables or you can simply microwave it. Squeeze out water as much possible from the vegetables
4. Heat oil in a pan and saute the onions and ginger garlic paste for few minutes. it removes the raw flavour in the onions and garlic.
5. Spread the rawa also in a plate to coat the cutlets before frying.
6. Take the boiled potatoes and veggies in a mixing bowl.
7. Add the sauteed onion and ginger garlic paste, green chillies, lemon juice,chilly powder , coriander leaves, cumin powder, turmeric powder and salt.
8. Mix everything together. Taste the mixture and adjust any seasoning as per your tastebuds.
9. Shape into round patties. You can make the cutlets in triangular, oval or heart shaped.
10. Roll each cutlet with rawa. The cutlets should be coated with the rawa on all sides.
11. Now heat oil in a pan for deep frying.
12. Slowly drop each cutlet into the oil and fry until it is golden brown on all sides or you can shallow fry the cutlets on a pan.
13. You can serve the cutlets with ketchup, chilli sauce or green chutney.
14. You may also make a bigger cutlet and place it in between buns along with cabbage and chopped tomatoes to make a veggie burger.