Crunchy vegetable cutlets

How about some good old vegetable cutlets in a different style. Here I show you how to make great crunchy heart shaped vege cutlets.


Ingredients

• 6 medium potatoes (iets kruimig variety)
• 1 cup grated carrots
• 1 cup grated cabbage
  
• chopped green chillies to taste
  
• 2 slices bread
• bread crumbs (Paneermeel)
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying

Preparation

[1] Boil potatoes. Let them cool and then mash them

[2] Mix grated carrots and cabbage with mashed potatoes

[3] Dip bread slices in water and squeeze the water out. Now mix this moistened bread in the above potato mixture

[4] Add salt and chillies to taste. the cutlet mixture is now ready. Tada!

[5] Now make flat tikkies of the cutlet mixture and use the heart shaped (See variations) cutter as shown below to cut a nice cutlet shape.



[4] Wrap the cutlet in bread crumbs and shallow fry them under low flame in a regular pan.

[5] The cutlets are now ready for consumption. Serve hot with sweet chilli sauce or tomato ketchup.



Variations

• Use various other cookie cutters to get different shapes. The cookie cutters can be easily purchased from HEMA or BLOKKER.

• Add more vegetables like cauliflower, peas, etc to the mixture

• Fill the cutlets with cheese!

Gotchas

If you use cheese, make sure that you consider the amount of salt you add to the mixture!. This is to compensate the salty flavor provided by the cheese.