Thursday, June 14, 2012

Vegetable Cutlet

Ingredients:


Red pumpkin                     250 gm
French beans                     100 gm     
Cauliflower                        100 gm       
Carrot                               100 gm        
Cabbage                           100 gm       
Capsicum                         100 gm        
Green Peas                       250 gm        
Potatoes                           500 gm      
Onions(finely chopped)         6 nos             
Bread                                   1 loaf             
Ginger                                  1"
Garlic                                   6 cloves
Green chillies                        4 nos
Coriander leaves(finely cut) 3/4 cup
Dry masalas:
Red chilly powder               2 tsp
Coriander seeds powder     4 tsp
Garam masala                  1/2 tsp
Amchur powder               1/2 tsp
Safron (optional)                 1 pinch

Method:
  • Take bread and make it into pieces by hand and powder it  in a mixie little by little and keep it aside.
  • You can grate vegetables like carrot, cabbage,cauliflower,even capsicum or chop it very fine.
  • Pressure cook Potatoes cool it and peel the skin and grate or mash it well.
  • Pressure cook peas, cool it and mash well.
  • Pressure cook all the vegetables. 
  • If you have a prestige pressure cooker you can pressure cook each of them by placing them in separate containers. That will make more easier because the water content will be less.
  • Care should be taken to drain the water completely, otherwise it will take too many bread crumbs.
  • While draining put it in a sieve and keep a vessel under the sieve, you can use the vegetable water like a clear soup. 
  • Now mix crushed potatoes, crushed peas, drained & cooked vegetables.
  • Grind the Ginger, garlic and green chillies in a small mixie and keep aside.
  • Now take a kadai. heat  8 tsp of oil, and add ground masala(GGG) and roast a little and add chopped onion roast it well then add dry masalas one by one then cook it till all the water is evaporated.
  • Let it cool.
  • Then add  half (1/2) or three fourth of the bread crumps, to it, remaining you need for rolling
  • After  adding salt to your taste, mix all the ingredients well.
  • Then roll it into small balls & into desired shape , roll it on bread crumbs. 
  • Heat the tava, you can use non stick, spread oil. You can cut an onion into half and use it to spread the oil. 
  • Shallow fry, cutlets, by putting as little oil as when it is necessary, keep tossing as and when required.
  • Remove when it turns golden brown.
  • Serve it hot with some ketchup or mint chutney.


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