HEART SHAPED – VEGETABLE CUTLET

Vegetable cutlet is a mouth watering delicacy. Vegetable cutlet is popular as a snack or starter too. This article is being posted on Valentine’s day as a gift of love. There is a popular saying that, “you can make a man happy thru’ his tummy only”. In India the situation is no different. No matter how modern or career oriented you may be a cup of tea or a small snack will make your man happy and cheer his mood.

Go ahead and surprise your soul mate…loved ones on Valentine’s day with these heart shaped cutlets. Serve them hot with chutney or sauce. These are homemade snacks that can be eaten without any worry of the quality. You can design the cutlets in various shapes: circle, oval, square, star, flower, heart shaped as per the mold you have and the occasion. For kids you can cut into mickey outline. You can make use of the empty snack boxes in various cartoon characters available in the market.

Ingredients :

Potato: 1 large

Carrot: 1 large

Onion: 1 small ( optional -finely chopped)

Beans: ½ cup chopped

fresh corn: ¼ cup

Green peas: ¼ cup

Green chilly: 2 tbsn (finely chopped)

Ginger-garlic paste : ½  tspn

Garam masala: ¼ tspn

Coriander leaves: 3 tbsns (finely chopped)

Cumin powder: ¼ tspn

Salt: as per taste

Lime juice: 1 tbsn

Corn flour: 3 tspn

Bread crumbs: 1.5 cup

Oil: for frying
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Procedure for preparing Heart shaped –Vegetable Cutlet:

Method:

• Peel potato and carrot and pressure cook for 2 whistles. When cool mash it without any lumps.
• Potato is the basic ingredient that binds the cutlet and ensure good shape formation.
• Steam fresh corn and green peas. Add a little salt to avoid band taste when it becomes tender.
• Mix corn flour with 5 to 6 tbsn of water such that the liquid is thick and can be used as a coating for the cutlet.
• Mix all the ingredients together. Apply oil on the palms and then divide the mixture into equal sizes.
• If you are cutting shapes then spread the mixture on a flat plate. Press the mold and cut into desired shapes.
• Immerse the shapes into the corn starch batter and then into the flat plate containing bread crumbs.
• Ensure a the sides of the cutlet is covered with bread crumbs.
• Heat oil in a pan and when hot add the cutlets one by one. Fry them golden brown on both sides. The vegetable cutlet should be half immersed in the oil to fry sufficiently.
• You can bake the vegetable cutlet to avoid oil consumption.
• Fry the complete batch in oil. Serve hot with sauce or chutney.

Delight your family with these hot delicious Heart shaped Vegetable cutlet.

Happy Valentine Day!!

There are various options to the cutlet i.e addition of other vegetables and you can opt for rava / Sooji in place of bread crumbs. You will have to do shallow frying to avoid rava getting separated.

Note: Non – vegetarians can opt for egg white as a coating to immerse cutlet prior to application of bread crumbs.

If you like this recipe or know of any variations do let us know in the comments.