Mushroom Cutlet

Ingredients :

Mushrooms – 4

Potato – 1, boiled , peeled and mashed

Onion – 1, finely chopped

Ginger-garlic paste – 1 tsp

Green chilly paste – 1 tsp

Bread Crumbs – 1 cup

Salt – To taste

Method :

In  3 cups of water , add mushrooms. Cook it by covering the lid for 5 minutes. Drain the water completely. Finely chop the mushrooms and grind for 3 to 4 times.

Heat oil in a pan. Add onion pieces and fry for 7-8 minutes. Ginger-garlic paste and green chilly paste. Fry for 5 minutes. Add crumbled mushrooms and sauté till water evaporates. Add salt and mix evenly. Switch off the flame and let the cooked mixture to cool for 5 minutes.

In a bowl, add mashed potato, ½ cup bread crumbs and cooked mixture. Mix evenly and make patties. Roll the patties in the remaining bread crumbs.

On a pan, heat oil. Shallow-fry the patties / cutlets till both sides of the patties turns golden browned.

Serve hot with tomato sauce.

Sprouted Moth bean Masala

Ingredients : 

Sproued Moth bean / Matki – 2 cup

Tomatoes – 2, large

Salt – To taste

Oil – 1 tsp

Coriander leaves – Little ( finely chopped )

For preparing paste :

Onion – 1, sliced

Poppy seeds / Khus - Khus – 4 tsp

Cinnamon – 3 sticks

Cloves – 3

Pepper-corns – 3 to 4

Garlic – 2 cloves

Coriander seeds – 1 tsp

Roasted Red chillies – 6 to 7

Method :

Heat oil in a pan and roast poppy seeds + onion slices + cinnamon sticks + cloves + pepper-corns + coriander seeds + roasted red chillies. Grind the roasted ingredients into a coarse paste. Before removing the paste, add garlic and grind again fine paste by adding little water. Transfer the ground paste in a bowl and Keep aside.

Cut  the tomatoes into big slices. In a deep bottomed vessel, add the sliced tomatoes + ¼ cup of water and cook. Blend the cooked tomato slices into a smooth consistency puree by adding the water used for cooking. Keep aside.

In a deep bottomed kadai, add the sprouted moth beans, ground paste, 2 to 3 teaspoons of water and cook for 10 minutes. When cooked, add the pureed tomato and salt. Cook again for 5 minutes. Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves.

Serve hot with chapatti. 

Soya – Paneer Bhurji

Ingredients :

Paneer – 1 cup, crumbled

Soya granules – 1 cup ( soak in hot water for 10-15 minutes & then drain the

                                               water completely )

Tomato – ¼ cup , chopped into small pieces

Onion – ¼ cup , finely chopped

Capsicum – 1, small ( chopped into small pieces )

Green peas – ¼ cup ( blanched / boiled )

Coriander powder – 1 tsp

Red chilly powder – ¾ tsp

Green chillies – 2 , chopped

Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

Salt – To taste

Oil – 3 tsp

Coriander leaves – Little, finely chopped

Method :

In a kadai, heat oil. Add cumin seeds. When cumin seeds start to crackle, add onion pieces and fry till it becomes translucent. Then, add tomato pieces and green chilly pieces. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Add crumbled paneer, soya granules and cook again for 3 minutes. Add capsicum pieces , green peas. Cover the kadai with lid and cook for 4 to 5 minutes. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Serve hot with rotis / chapatis.