Aloo Tikki Chat

I am crazy for Chat items, especially Aloo tikki or gol gappa aka pani puri.

This diwali i got 4 days off from work so decided to try out some chat at home to surprise my husband.

Actually making chat is very easy but you need lot of ingredients for that which makes it a bit a difficult task.

I am sharing my recipe for Aloo Tikki here.

What you need

Potatoes - 4 boiled and peeled

Bread slices - 8

Corriander chutney - 1/2 cup

Tamarind Chutney - 1/2 cup

Sev - 1/2 cup

Chopped onions - 1/4 cup

Green peas - 1/2 cup

Jeera powder - 1 tsp

Curd - 1/4 cup

garam masala - 1/2 tsp

Chat masala - 1/2 tsp

black salt - as required

salt - as required

oil - for shallow frying

How to prepare

First boil and peel the potatoes and mash them adding a little bit salt.

 Cook green peas with garam masala and salt so that a dry dish is made without much water and keep aside.

Now cut the sides of the bread slices and wet them with water and mix well with mashed potatoes. Make balls with the potato bread mix and flatten them a little. But don't make them too thin, it should be as thick as cutlets.

Now heat oil on a frying pan or kadai and shallow fry the tikkis till both sides turn brown.

Now the tikkis are ready. Keep them in a bowl or serving dish. Mash them a little and put the green peas masala dish on it's top. Add the curd on top of this. Now sprinkle jeera powder,chat masala and black salt on top of this. Add the corriander chutney and tamarind chutney on top of this. Sprinkle the chopped onions and sev also and your delicious chat is ready!

For tamarind chutney

Mix some tamarind pulp and jaggery in some water and boil, simmer for a few minutes till it becomes thick. Now add jeera powder,dried ginger powder and blacksalt and remove from heat.

For corriander chutney

Grind corriander leaves,green chilly,ginger garlic and tomato(you can add either tamarind or lemon juice instead of tomato) with enough salt to a thick paste.

Dhokla - A gujrati snack

Dhokla - Gujrati Snack




When i had it for the first time i felt dhokla looks like yellow idlis cut into cubes.But it tastes different. In the first trail itself i loved the taste of this sweet and sour snack and decided to try it by myself. First time it turned out hard, but then second time i could make soft spongy dhokla.I was really surprised to find out how easy the preparation is. So here, i am sharing the recipe with my friends...




What you need :

Besan/Gram Flour - 2 cups

Curd/Yoghurt - 1/2 cup

Green chilly paste - 1 tsp

Ginger Paste - 1/2 tsp

Baking soda - 1 pinch

Salt - as required

Sugar - 1 tbsp

lemon juice - 1 tsp

Oil - 1 tbsp

Eno - 1 sachet

Water - as required




For seasoning

Oil - 2 tsp

Red chilly -2

Curry leaves - 1 bunch

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp




First seive together besan and soda well. Then mix curd,salt,lemon juice,green chilly paste and ginger paste together without lumps. Now add water little by little so that you get a thick batter just as the same consistency as that of idly batter. Keep aside for one or two hours. Now add sugar according to your taste level.( If you don't want dhokhlas sweet then you can completely avoid sugar. But i prefer it khatta meetha so i add about 2 tbsp sugar).Now add eno and you can see bubbles coming up in the batter. Now pour the batter into a dish similar to baking dish greased with oil. Steam the batter in a steamer for around 30 minutes on medium flame. Check whether the dhokla is well cooked using a knife or fork. If the fork comes out clean then we can make sure that dhokhla is well cooked. Now take out the pan and let it cool a bit. Remove the dhokla from the dish and cut into cubes with a knife smoothly. Now do the seasoning with all the ingredients in hot oil and pour on the dhoklas.

Serve with any chutney of your choice!




Note : Don't keep the batter after adding eno. Immediately steam it.

Moong Dosa - Cherupayar Dosa

This is a left over recipe which i have found to save the dosa batter if it's left over. Sometimes after making dosa or idly the batter will be left over which will not be enough in quantity to use it next time for breakfast or dinner for me and my husband. So i thought of making a new type of dosa which is the actual fusion of north indian cheela and south indian dosa. I have named it moong dosa. I don't know whether the actual moong dosa is made like this.

Ingredients

Dosa batter - 2 cups
moong dal - 2 cups
Green chilly - 1 or 2 according to your spice level
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
methi powder - 2 tbsp
salt - as required

Soak moong dal for 2-3 hrs. Grind it with all the ingredients apart from dosa batter adding little bit of water. The ground moong dal better should be of the consistency of idly batter. Mix it with the dosa batter well.
Now heat the tawa and make dosa in the same way like dosa is made.

It can be served with chilly or onion chutney.

Vegetable Cutlet

I learnt to make cutlet from my mother-in-law. Though it looks simple, when we put the cutlets in the oil most of the time it gets scattered in oil which makes the whole attempt messy. I have tried many times and only once it succeeded. But the final result was really good. So i thought of sharing this recipe with my friends.

Ingredients

Boiled and cubed potatoes - 3
Sandwich bread - 6
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Meat masala - 1 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Chopped green chillies - 2 tsp
Chopped corriander leaves - 2 tsp
Bread crumbs - 1 cup powdered
Salt - as required
Oil - as required for deep frying

Boil the potatoes and cube them.


Now mash the potatoes to a fine paste. Cut the sides of the bread.



Now mix the all ingrediants other than oil and bread crumbs to the mashed potato and mix well.(You have to do it thouroughly otherwise salt won't be even in the mix. It's always better to do this with hand)



Now take one bowl of water. Dip the bread slices in it and squeeze the water out.
Mix this with potato mix well.(In this stage you can add little bit corn flour also if you want to the mix to bind the ingredients well)Be careful while doing this so that the potato mix and bread are mixed well without lumps.For doing this the bread should not drip water.So squeeze out the water well from the bread slices. Now make the bread potato mix into thick flat shaped cutlets. You can make it into any shape of your choice. Roll them in the powdered bread crumbs.



Now heat oil in a kadai and deep fry the cutlets carefully without breaking them.
I warn whoever try this, if u break the cutlet while frying then it will be really a mess. I feel like crying if this happens...:-)



Once the cutlets become dark brown in color lift them from oil and transfer to tissue paper to absorb the excess oil.



You can serve them hot with tomtato sauce or green chutney.
Note : If you want to make non-veg cutlets you can mix minced meat with potatoes and make the cutlets.

Aloo Toast

When i got married, my two friends who were my room mates in hostel gifted me an electric toaster. It was a very thoughful and nice gift for a couple like us who were setting up out home.Nowthat i got the toaster i started experimenting different kinds of sandwiches and toasts for breakfast. Among those, i like aloo toast the most.So i thought to share this recipe here.

Ingrediants

Bread slices - 8
Potato - 2 small or 1 medium sized
Green chilly chopped - 1 tsp
ginger chopped - 1 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
meat masala - 1 tsp
salt - as required
mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
oil - 1 tbsp
Butter or ghee(optional) - as required

Boil the potatoes. Heat oil and season mustard seeds. Fry green chilly and ginger and add mashed boiled potatoes. Mix the other powders and salt and fry well.



Now slice the bread to triangular pieces as shown.




Take each pair of bread slices and apply the potato masala on one of the slices and cover with the other piece and press well.



Apply little bit butter or ghee on both side of the sandwich.



Now toast the bread slices with the filling in your toaster. If you don't have a toaster then don't worry. You can make the same tasty aloo toast on heated tawa also. Only thing to take care of is to keep the bread slices in position with the filling and press them well while toasting.



Your tasty aloo toast is ready