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Showing posts with label Snacks. Show all posts

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Hara Bhara kabab

Ingredients:

3-4 medium potatoes, boiled

100 gm spinach leaves

1/2 cup green peas, boiled

1 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste

3-4 chopped green chillies

2 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves

2 tablespoon corn flour for binding

2-3 teaspoon oil

Salt to taste

1 teaspoon chat masala (optional)

Method:

Peel the cooked potatoes and mash them well. Add the boiled and mashed green peas to it. Blanch the spinach leaves in hot water and quickly transfer to cold water. This method will help the leaves to regain its color. Remove excess water from the spinach leaves and chop them finely.

Next add the ginger-garlic paste, chopped green chillies, and chopped coriander leaves, salt and chat masala and mix well. Now add the corn flour for binding. Make small balls and flatten them on your palm and give it the shape of small tikkis. Heat a nonstick tava and grease it with little oil. Place the kababs on the hot tava and fry until they turn golden brown.

The hot kababs can be served with mint chutney.

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Aloo Tikki


Ingredients:

1 kg potatoes

3-4 bread slices

2 onions, finely chopped

1 tablespoon coriander leaves, chopped

!/2 teaspoon mint leaves, chopped

1 teaspoon jeera powder

2 teaspoon coriander powder

1 teaspoon chilly powder

1/4 teaspoon Punjabi garam masala

1/2 teaspoon lemon juice

1 cup breadcrumbs

Oil for frying

Salt to taste

Method:

Firstly cook the potatoes in the pressure cooker. While they are still warm, peel and mash the potatoes.

Soak the bread slices in water for a minute. Then squeeze them dry and add to the mashed potatoes.

To this mixture, add the chopped chillies, onions, coriander leaves, and mint leaves, coriander powder, jeera powder, chilly powder, Punjabi garam masala powder, salt and lemon juice and mix well.

Make small rounds of this mixture and flatten them on the palm. Roll the tikki in the breadcrumbs and shallow fry them in a pan. Fry the tikki until it turns golden brown in color. Serve hot with mint chutney.