Ingredients :
Potato’s/ Urulai kizhangu – 4
Carrot’s – 2
Green peas/ Pachai pattani – 1 cup
Lemon juice/ Elumichai pazha saru
Cashew nuts/ Mundhiri paruppu (broken/ small pieces)
Cumin seeds/ Seerakam/ Jeeragham
Red chili powder/ Milagai thool
Coriander powder/ Dhania thool
Turmeric powder/ Manjal thool
Garam masala
Ginger garlic paste/ inji poondu vizhuthu
Finely milled wheat flour/ All purpose flour/ Maida Flour
Bread Crumbs
Oil/ yennai
Salt
Method :
1. Steam cook all vegetables like carrot’s, green peas together and potato’s seperately
2. After steam cooking the potato’s add them to a bowl and mash them well
3. Now take a pan add oil and heat it, Add cumin seeds, let it splutter, then add cashew nuts and fry well
4, After frying the cashew nuts, add ginger garlic paste, carrot’s, green peas (mash both the vegetable’s before adding), turmeric powder, garam masala, red chili powder, coriander powder and salt. Mix and fry well
5. Add the fried carrot and green peas masala to the mashed potato’s, mix well, after mixing add little lemon juice and again mix well
6. Now take a plate and add bread crumbs (spread it all over the plate). Take a bowl add maida flour and water (make an evenly dissolved maida solution)
7. Make small round shaped balls out of the potato’s mixture and flatten it lightly, now dip it lightly in the maida and immediately put them in the plate containing the bread crumbs (so that the bread crumbs makes a fine layer/ coating to the cutlet on both sides)
8. Heat oil in a vessel, add these cutlets and deep fry them until they turn into golden brown in color, the recipe is ready
Altermate method :
The cutlets can be cooked in conventional oven, by preheating it for 475 degrees and fry them for 20 minutes ie., till they turn golden brown in color
Potato’s in tamil is called Urulai kizhangu
Green peas in tamil is called Pachai pattani
Lemon juice in tamil is called Elumichai pazha saru
Cashew nuts in tamil is called Mundhiri paruppu
Cumin seeds in tamil is called Seerakam/ Jeeragham
Red chili powder in tamil is called Milagai thool
Coriander powder in tamil is called Dhania thool
Turmeric powder in tamil is called Manjal thool
Ginger garlic paste in tamil is called inji poondu vizhuthu
Oil in tamil is called yennai