Easy Vegetable Cutlet with beetroot potato and peas

Cutlets are my all time favorite vegetable snack. But somehow I never tried preparing them at home. This was my first attempt to prepare vegetable cutlet and YESSS... it came out very well :)

So here comes the ingredients and method to prepare tasty vegetable cutlets at home.

Beetroot : 1 

Potato : 3 

Green Peas - 1 cup

Finely chopped Onion : 1 big 

Ginger (Chopped) : 1 tbsp

Garlic (Chopped) : 1 tbsp

Green chilli (Chopped) : 3

Turmeric powder : 1 tsp

Coriander Powder : 1 tsp

Red chilly powder : 2 tsp

Pepper powder : 1 tsp

Garam Masala : 1 tsp

Bread crumbs & Rava mixed: 1 cup

Maida mixed with water  : 2 cup

Salt : As required

Oil : for frying

:- Pressure cook the potatoes and beetroot. Microwave peas or you can pressure cook it with very little water till done. Peel the potatoes, beetroot and add peas and mash all of them together. Keep it aside.

:- Take a bowl and mix Maida and water together to form a smooth paste. This should not be a thick paste (watery consistency).

:- Mix Bread crumbs and rava together in a plate and keep it aside for coating the cutlets. Rava will give extra crispiness to the cutlets.

:- Heat oil in a pan and add green chilies,ginger,garlic and onion.Saute until onion turns golden brown. Add chili ,turmeric,coriander,black pepper and garam masala powder.Saute for 2 minutes. Now add mashed vegetables and salt to it mix well and cook for 3 more minutes. Allow this mixture to cool.

:- Now roll out small portions of the mixture into small sized ball and flatten them between your palms to give it shape.

:- Dip each cutlets in the prepared batter and roll in breadcrumbs-rava mix making sure that all sides are nicely and evenly coated.

:- Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the cutlets in medium flame ,turning once in between. Once done transfer to a kitchen tissue.

Serve the tasty cutlets hot with tomato Ketchup and tea.

Tips:-

You can use egg mix instead or Maida.

You can add chopped coriander leaves, carrot and beans to the veg mix.

Kid's Special :- Spinach Soup

Spinach Soup

Ingredients:-
1 tsp ghee
½ tsp jeera
3 black pepper corns
2 garlic cloves
½ chopped onion
½ tsp chopped ginger
1 bowl of cut spinach
½ potato
½ carrot
½ small beetroot (Here I have added one big beetroot so the color of the soup turned red :-))
Salt
2 Bowls Water


Preparation:-

Heat ghee in pressure cooker.

Add jeera, black pepper corns, garlic cloves, chopped onion and chopped ginger.

Saute for a minute and add 1 bowl of cut spinach, potato, carrot and beetroot.

Saute for 3-4 minutes and also add salt to taste.

Add 2 bowls of water to this and pressure cook for around 10 minutes on medium.

Puree this once it is cool. Strain and serve warm to kids.

Note:-
You can add little cream for better taste.

It's tea time - Easy bread pakoda

How good it feels to sit in a balcony, relax and have tea on a weekend evening!!! just make it more beautiful with this simple snack....

It's a very easy snack to prepare and taste very good with tea especially in the rainy season :) So here is the simple recipe.

Ingredients:-

Gram flour - 1 cup
Chilli flakes / chilli powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - As required
Bread - 4 slices cut into two

Take a bowl and mix gram flour, chilli flakes, turmeric powder and salt together with little water. Make it into a dosa batter consistency. Check the salt.

Heat oil in a kadai. Dip the bread pieces in the batter and deep fry it till golden brown. Fry in a medium/low heat.

Serve hot with sauce and enjoy with your evening tea.

Tips:-
If you like to have a spicy snack then add more chilli powder.
Mix one beaten egg to the batter to make it more tasty.

Kids Special - Nentrapazam Fry

This was one of my favorite snack when I was a kid. After a long time I have tried this yesterday and my kid also loved it. So if you are facing difficulty in making your kid eat banana then try this out.


You require:-

Nentrapazham / Nentrakaya - 1 big.
Ghee - 2 tsp
Sugar - 1 tsp

I tried a lot to find the English name of this banana but couldn't get in the google. If anyone knows please comment so that it will be easy for everyone to understand. Please refer the photo to get idea about Nentrapazham. This banana is very good for kids.

Peel and cut the banana as below.

Now heat a tava and pour ghee into it. Arrange all the banana pieces on the tava and fry it in low flame.

Turn all the banana pieces and fry again.

Once the banana's are done then remove it from tava and sprinkle some sugar on that. Serve it hot.

I am sure your kid will love this healthy snack.

Tips:-
You can cut the banana into thin slices as well.