Vegetable Cutlet Recipe
This vegetable cutlet recipe comes to rescue when kids are not so enthusiastic about eating vegetables. It is a favorite of kids as well as grown ups. Kids are willing to eat the vegetables that they wouldn’t touch otherwise when these vegetables are given to them in the form of a cutlet. For breakfast, lunch, dinner, school lunch, picnic & snacks. This vegetable cutlet recipe uses shallow frying method. Therefore, even those who are dieting, are avoiding fats can enjoy these without feeling guilty.
Equipment
- 1 Mixing Bowl
- 1 Pan or kadai for cooking
- 1 Pan shallow frying
Ingredients
How to make vegetable cutlets
Ingredients for mixed vegetable cutlets
- Boiled and mashed potatoes – 2 cups
- Onion – 1/2 cup
- French beans – 1/2 cup
- Carrot – grated – 1/2 cup
- Beetroot grated – 1/2 cup
- Bread crumbs – 1 cup
- Oil for shallow frying
- Salt – 1 tsp or according to taste.
- Green chilies – chopped finely – 2 or more according to taste
- Ginger paste – 1/2 tsp
- Garlic paste optional – 1/2 tsp finely chopped
- coriander cilantro leaves – 2 tbsp
- Maida plain flour2 tbsp + some water for making thin batter
- Rava semolina – cream of wheat or breadcrumbs for rolling the cutlets
Optional Ingredients
- Garam masala – 1/2 tsp
- Lemon juice – 1 tsp
Instructions
Step by step instructions for making vegetable cutlets
- Boil potatoes, peel them and grate or mash them.
- In a fry pan or karahi, heat 1 tbsp oil. Add chopped onion. Fry for a minute.
- Add ginger, garlic paste chopped green chilies. Fry for a minute.
- Add chopped French beans. Cover and let cook till beans are almost done.
- Add grated beetroot and carrots. Cover and cook for 2 minutes. Stir once in a while. Do not add any extra water. There will be enough moisture in carrots and beetroots.
- Once the vegetables are cooked remove cover and continue cooking till the mixture is dry.
- Add garam masala (optional).
Making final mix for vegetable cutlets
- Cool the mixture and mash it a little.
- Once the mixture is completely cool, add boiled and grated potatoes.
- Add salt, more green chilies, paste or chopped fine, if you like the taste.
- Check for salt and add more if necessary.
- Add bread crumbs and mix. The mixture should not be very soft. It should hold shape when you make a ball. If it is too soft, add some more bread crumbs.
- Divide the mixture in lime sized balls and then make in flat patties. You may make your patties round, heart shaped, oblong or square, as you wish. Keep aside.
- Make a thin batter with maida(plain flour) and water. Dip the cutlets in this mixture and roll in breadcrumbs or rava. Coat the cutlet well with it.
Cooking veg cutlets
- Heat a fry pan or tava/ girdle and reduce the flame to medium.
- Add a few spoonfuls of oil in the pan. Place the cutlets , 4-5 at a time – depending on the size of your pan.
- When one side of the cutlet is cooked, turn the cutlets. Add a spoonful of oil around the cutlets.
- Cook on the other side till a few brown spots appear.
- Cook all the Cutlets this way.
- Serve hot with ketchup, mint chutney or tomato chutney , tamarind chutney, onion rings etc.
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Notes
Tips
- You may use rava or bread crumbs or rice flour to roll the cutlets.
- You may use besan(gram /chickpea flour) instead of maida(plain flour)
- Add some oats, powdered to the vegetable mixture to make it more healthy. It will also dry out the mixture fast. Add oats after the carrots are cooked.
- You may deep fry the cutlets if you wish.
- You may use other vegetables such as chopped cauliflower, cabbage, roasted brinjal(eggplant),
Garam masala – optional 1/2 tsp
Lemon juice – optional 1 tsp - You may cook the green beans in the pressure cooker and add to the mixture after cooking carrots. Do not use the water if any.
- You may also cook the beetroot in the pressure cooker and then grate it. And add along with carrots.
- There is no need to precook carrots as the grated carrots cook fast.
- Make sure the mixture is semi dry before taking off fire.
- If you do not like the beetroot coloring all the vegetables, avoid it.
- Make sure the mixture is cool before you add boiled and mashed potatoes and bread crumbs. Do not add potatoes to the hot mixture.