1 cup red kidney beans soaked for about 8 hours with a pinch of soda (soda is optional)
4 small potatoes
2 cups mixed vegetables ( I have used any combination of green beans, corn, green peas, and carrot)
4 slices of day old bread (powdered in a spice grinder to a coarse mixture) (yielded approx 1 and 1/2 cups of bread crumbs)
1/4 to 1/2 cup fine semolina (semolina flour/ rava) (see notes)
1/2 tsp red chilli powder (optional) (or according to taste)
1/2 tsp garam masala (optional or to taste) (my recipe for homemade garam masala can be found here)
salt according to taste
1 tbsp oil
1 tsp cumin seeds
3 Thai or Indian green chillies (or to taste)
1 inch piece ginger grated fine/ minced
a little extra oil to shallow fry the cutlets
Soak red kidney beans for about 8 hours or overnight with a pinch of soda (the soda is optional)
Drain
red kidney beans and place in a pot with fresh water and simmer on a
low heat until cooked. Alternatively drain red kidney beans and place in
a pressure cooker with sufficient water and cook until soft. Drain any
excess water after cooking the kidney beans and keep the beans aside.
Cook potatoes with skin either in the pressure cooker or stove top or microwave until soft and keep aside.
When the potatoes are cool, peel potatoes, mash them and keep aside.
In a heavy bottomed pan heat oil and add cumin seeds to it. When cumin seeds begin to sizzle, add green chilies and ginger and stir a couple of time. Add mixed vegetables, salt to taste, chilli powder, garam masala, sprinkle a few drops of water and cook on a low flame until the veggies are tender crisp.
Add mashed potatoes to the cooked vegetables and mix well.
Add cooked red kidney beans to this mixture and mix well. Using the back of you spatula
or a potato masher, mash the mixture gently until most of the
vegetables, beans and potatoes get mashed. Alternatively, cool all the
vegetables, add to a food processor and process until the veggies all break down into coarse mixture.
Add bread crumbs to this mixture and mix well. Add semolina a little at a time, mixing well. At this point, the mixture will be thick and you should be able to form a patty/ cutlet with it.
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Cool slightly and form into lemon sized or orange sized balls,depending on how large a cutlet/ patty you want to make, and flatten it slightly.
Cool slightly and form into lemon sized or orange sized balls,depending on how large a cutlet/ patty you want to make, and flatten it slightly.
Heat
a flat pan/ griddle/ tawa on medium high, place the flattened cutlets
on them and add a few drops of oil around the cutlets. Turn over and fry
the other side similarly.
Serve hot with ketchup as a snack/ appetizer or use as a patty in your burger or in a sandwich
Yield will depend on the size of the cutlets.
Notes:
The quantity of semolina will depend on how moist the mixture is, too moist may need 1/2 cup, lightly moist may need just 1/4 cup or a little more. Add the semolina a little at a time assessing once or twice to see if you are able to form a patty/ cutlet with the mixture.
Notes:
The quantity of semolina will depend on how moist the mixture is, too moist may need 1/2 cup, lightly moist may need just 1/4 cup or a little more. Add the semolina a little at a time assessing once or twice to see if you are able to form a patty/ cutlet with the mixture.
