Vegetable Cutlet (Aloo Veg Tikki)

Shallow fried potato cutlets or tikkis mixed with vegetables and made crisp with semolina (rava).

Ingredients:

Potatoes - 2 big

Onion - 1 medium

Chopped Carrots - 1/2 cup

Chopped Cabbage - 1/2 cup

Chopped French/Green Beans - 1/2 cup

Green Peas - 1/2 cup

Green Chillies (minced or chopped) - about 1 tsp

Cilantro/Coriander leaves - few sprigs

Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tbsp

Cumin/Jeera Seeds - 1/2 tsp

Garam Masala - 1/4 tsp

Lemon/Lime Juice - about 2 tsp

Turmeric/Haldi - 1/4 tsp

Semolina/Rava/Sooji - 1/2 cup

Kala/Sendha Namak/Indian Black Salt

Oil

Method:

1. Boil the potatoes till soft enough to be mashed.  Finely chop onions, French beans, cabbage, carrots, green chillies and coriander leaves.

2. Heat about 2 tsp oil in a pan.  Add cumin seeds, ginger garlic paste.  Saute for a minute and add onions.  When onions turn soft, add chopped beans, cabbage and carrots.  Saute till all veggies turn soft.

3. Now add garam masala, turmeric, green chillies and kala namak.  Saute till all the ingredients are mixed well and turn off the heat.

4. In a mixing bowl, add mashed potatoes, chopped cilantro, lemon juice and cooked veggies.  Mix all the ingredients well.  Make round balls of this mixture and slightly flatten them. 

5. Coat these flattened cutlets in semolina. 

6. Heat a pan and add about 1 tbsp oil.  Shallow fry the cutlets till the semolina turns crisp.  Drizzle little oil after flipping.

7. Serve crispy Veg Cutlets with ketchup and/or chutney.