Vegetable Cutlets

During chilly evenings with pouring rain and a pleasant breeze, Winter evenings with Hot steaming tea....watching the sunset, This is a snack that will lift up your spirits & accompany your tea :) Eat them while hot along with your tea! Hope you try this out this winter! Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 2 beetroots (the bulbs) 
• 4 medium sized carrots 
• 1 big potato
• 100 grams of green peas
• 1 tsp of turmeric powder
• 2 tsp of chilli powder
• 1 onion
• 4-5 pods of garlic
• few twigs of coriander leaves
• Bhaja (fried) masala ( powdered spices of dried red chilly, bay leaf,coriander,cinnamon,cumin seeds)
• 1 tsp of clarified butter or ghee
• Besan (chickpea flour)or gram flour
• Breadcrumbs 
• Oil to fry 

Recipe:

• Boil the vegetables first.
• Mash the boiled vegetables nicely while adding salt, chilly powder, and turmeric powder to the mash.
• Take 1 tsp of oil in a pan and fry chopped onion and garlic. Now saute  the mashed veggies for 2-3 minutes and add 2 tsp of bhaja masala(See above) and a spoonful of clarified butter from top & give it a good stir.
• Let this mixture cool down for sometime.
• Meanwhile prepare a batter with chickpea flour (besan) and salt and water.
• Take a separate plate and spread out the breadcrumbs over the plate.
• Take little portions from the mixture which you prepared earlier and make small round shaped balls and flatten it out in your palms into cutlet shapes (like above)
• Keep these flattened cutlets in the refrigerator for an hour.
• Heat some oil in a pan.
• Dip the cutlet in the batter and roll it in the breadcrumbs and fry them in medium flame.

P.S.:  In absence of breadcrumbs you can roll it in semolina also.

Serve it with sauce of your choice