Tuesday, July 27, 2010

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

    2 comments:

    Haddock said...

    Anything with Potatoes goes well with me :-)

    anja said...

    I'm gettign weak in the knees reading all this and I am SOOOO hungry right now I could eat a horse or a shammi kebab, an aloo tikki and chicken korma aaaaaaah!!!!!