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
