vegetable cutlet

The very thought of a Vegetable cutlet reminds me of my college days when I used to spend most of my time at Latha's place. Latha's mom is an awesome cook. I happened to visit her house once on a special event. I directly headed into the kitchen sniffing about the wonderful aroma that was emanating from the kitchen. I saw about 3o cutlets each of equal size, and shape arranged beautifully on a huge plate. For a few morments, I could not take my eyes off of it. I learnt the recipe from her and over a period of time, I learnt to make tasty cutlets with consistent shape and size.

Ingredients

• Potatoes 3 large nos
• carrot 2 nos chopped
• beans 10 nos chopped
• beetroot 1 small chopped
• green peas 1 hand full
• Mustards 1tsp
• cumin seeds 1tsp
• fennel seeds 1tsp
• garam masala powder 1/2tbsp
• ginger-garlic paste 1tbsp
• Onion 1 large, finely chopped
• Coriander powder 1 tbsp
• Red chilli powder 1 tbsp
• green chillies 2nos, finely chopped
• bread crumbs 2 cups
• maida flour 3tbsp in water
• canola oil 250ml

Method

• Boil all the vegetables (potatoes, carrots, beans, beets, peas) in a pressure cooker.
• remove the peeled potatoes from the water as soon as it is cooked, so that it could be prevented from absorbing water
• mash the potatoes and keep it aside
• squeeze the boiled vegetables (carrots, beans, peas and beets) in a muslin cloth to drain the excess water
• heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan
• add mustards, cumin seeds, fennel seeds to it.
• add ginger garlic paste and fry it.
• saute the chopped onions and green chillies in it.
• now, you can add garam masala, coriander powder and red chilli powder and fry it well.
• add the squeezed vegetables to this mixture
• add salt to taste
• saute it well
• Now, add this vegetable mixture into mashed potato and mix it well.
• Make this into small dumplings of desired shape.
• heat oil in a kadai or a shallow pan
• now dip the vegetable dumpling in maida and then immediately dust with bread crumbs and deep fry in oil till it turns brown
• serve hot with tomato sauce