Veg cutlets are fritters which are deep or shallow fried and made from potatoes and veggies. This is a very easy and simple recipe. You can make these ahead of time and fry whenever you want. This can be a perfect evening or tea time snack.
Ingredients3 medium size Potatoes
Finely chopped Onion
Finely chopped Capsicum
Finely chopped Carrots
1/4 cup Maida / All purpose flour
1/4 cup corn flour
Salt to taste
Bread crumbs
1/4 tsp Chat masala
1/2 tsp Cumin powder
1 tsp Red chili powder
1 tsp Garam masala
Chopped Green chili
1 tbsp Oi
Pohe
Finely chopped Coriander leaves
Oil for frying
Method* Boil and peel the potatoes.
* Do not cook the potatoes completely. Let these be about 10% raw.
* Mash the potatoes well and transfer them into freeze for some time.
* Heat up oil in a pan.
* Add onion and fry it until it becomes a little soft.
* Add capsicum and carrot and for it for about 4 minutes.
* You can use raw veggies also.
* Turn off the gas and mashed potatoes.
* Add red chili powder, cumin powder, chat masala, garam masala, green chili and salt.
* Mix everything well together.
* Wash pohe well. Do not soak them.
* Crush pohe with hand and add these into the mixture.
* Pohe give nice binding. You also can add bread crumbs for binding.
* Add coriander leaves, mix well and take some mixture depending on the size of the cutlet you want.
* Roll it into shape of vada, flatten it and roll vada into shape of cutlet.
* Transfer the cutlets into freezer for about 15-20 minutes to set.
* Take maida and corn flour into a bowl.
* You can use maida only instead of corn flour.
* Add salt and mix well.
* Add a little water and make a little thick batter.
* The batter should not be thin so that cutlets will get nice coating.
* No lumps should be formed in the batter at all.
* Take cutlet, dip it in the batter and coat it well with bread crumbs from all sides.
* This is single coating method.
* If you want crispier cutlets the again dip the cutlets in the batter, coat them well with bread crumbs. Double coating cutlets are already.
* You can transfer such ready cutlets into freezer.
* These remain good in freezer for about 3 months.
* Or you can store such ready cutlets in freeze.
* Take the cutlets out of freeze whenever you want and fry them.
* Heat up oil in a pan. It is not compulsory to deep fry the cutlets. You can shallow fry them too.
* Drop cutlets in hot oil and fry on medium heat until these get nice golden color from all sides.
* After frying on medium heat for about 3 minutes flip the cutlets over and fry from other side as well.
* After frying on medium heat for about 7-8 minutes from both sides, when cutlets get nice golden color from all sides take them out into a dish.
* Cutlets are already.