Aloo Tikkis - The favourite Punjabi snack

To serve 4 adults you need:

Ingredients:
Potatoes (fist-sized) - 4

Onions - 1
Green chilies - 2
Cooking oil - 2 Tbsp
Jeera powder - 1/2 Tsp
Chilly powder - 1/2 Tsp
Fresh Coriander Leaves - 4 strands chopped fine
Slices of bread - 4
Lime - 1
Salt to taste

Tools you will need:
Non-stick pan, cooker

The Burpy To-do:

1. Boil the potatoes till well done, peel the skin once cool and grate to avoid lumps.
2. Dip the slices of bread in water and squeeze the water out and add them to the potatoes.
3. Add finely chopped onion, green chilies and coriander leaves, jeera powder, salt to taste, and lime juice to the potatoes and knead into a soft dough.
4. Make flat circular cutlets of 2" diameter of 1 centimeter of thickness.
5. Shallow fry these cutlets/tikkis on the non-stick pan on a low flame using the cooking oil so that they become crispy brown on both sides.

Serving options are as follows:

Once done on both sides serve the tikkis hot...

• With green coriander chutney or tomato ketchup. 
• As a filler in buttered slices of bread with finely chopped onions
• With ragda and chutneys

Add-on Recipe: Green coriander chutney

1. Grind a large bunch of coriander leaves along with 3 green chilies, 1 lime's juice and 3 pieces of garlic along with 6 tbsp of water
2. Add salt to taste once grinding is complete

Add-on Recipe: Tamarind chutney

1. Take a fist full of peeled tamarind and soak it in water for about 30 minutes
2. Squeeze the pulp of the tamarind into the water and strain water to get a smooth paste
3. Add a fist full of grated jaggery to the paste. Also add to it a 1 tsp of ginger powder (Sonthh) pinch of black pepper, 6-8 raisins, and 4-5 dates.
4. Bring the mixture to a boil and make the flame low to cook for 10 mins. The paste will thicken and your chutney is ready
5. You could coose to strain te mixture or eat it as is 

Add-on Recipe: Ragda

1. Soak the ragda chana for 2-3 hours
2. Cook with 2 times the quantity of water, 1 chopped onion, 1 tomato, crushed ginger garlic paste, and salt to taste in a cooker
3. Serve hot with Tamarind Chutney and the Coriander Chutney shared above

Sabudana Khichdi: My favorite snack time recipe

To serve 4 adults you need:

Ingredients:

Sabudana - 1 cup
Potatoes - 2
Green chillies - 2
Curry Leaves - 5
Cooking oil - 2 Tbsp
Jeera - 1/2 Tsp
Peanuts - 1/2 cup
Coriander Leaves - 5 strands

Tools you will need:
Kadhai, Non-stick pan, hand crusher

The Burpy To-do:

1. Wash the Sabudana and drain until the water runs clear. Pour a cup of water into it and cover the same and leave it to fluff up overnight.
2. Next morning the white Sabudana grains would have grown and separated from each other. Drain any excess water that would be left and test the grains to see that they press easily.
3. Dice the potatoes to 1 cm sized cubes
4. Roast the peanuts on a non-stick pan and coarsely crush them being careful not to make them into a powder and also not leave them whole
5. Chop green chillies and coriander fine
6. Heat the oil in a kadhai and add the jeera, and to it add the potatoes.
7. Once they get done, add the curry leaves and green chillies to it 
8. Add the peanuts and stir fry for 5 minutes
9. Now add the soaked Sabudana to the same and stir fry for not more than 5 minutes 
10. Add salt to taste and garnish with freshly chopped coriander
11. Serve hot with lime if you prefer a tangy taste or serve with sweetened curd

PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT ADD ANY WATER OR COVER THE PREPARATION as it will ruin the dish by making it too sticky to eat