Chickpea cutlet recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 cup cooked Kabuli Chana or White Chickpeas
- 1 small onion
- 1 small carrot (You can add other vegetables as well. I had only carrot with me)
- 1/2 green chilly
- 1 inch ginger
- 1 slice of bread - (I used whole grain bread. You can use any that you like)
- Bread crumbs
- Coriander Leaves
- Salt
- Oil for frying
Method:
- Mash the cooked chanas or chickpeas using a blender with out adding water and keep aside.
- Cut onion, green chilly, ginger and carrot.
- Remove the edges of the bread slices and soak the bread slices in water for around 10 min.
- Heat oil in a pan and when the oil becomes hot, add onions and saute till they are brown.
- Then add crushed green chillies and ginger and saute for 2min.
- Then add carrots and cover and cook for 2min. Add turmeric, chilly powder, garam maala and salt. Switch off after 2min.
- In a wide bowl, mix mashed chanas, soaked bread slices, the onion- carrot filling, coriander leaves and mix well.
- Make round balls out of the them.
- Heat oil in a pan for frying. Dip the round balls in the bread crumbs mixture, make it into a pattie like shape and fry them when the oil becomes hot.
- Fry till they become golden brown in color and take them off from the pan.
- Put them in a paper towel so that the oil comes off.
- Repeat till all the round balls are fried. Serve hot with green chutney or any sauce.
- Serve them as a starter or a tea time snack...