vegetable croquettes

Snacks are food items which everyone loves to eat specially during evening time with hot cup of tea or fresh fruit juice.There are a variety of snacks available if you poke around a food shop. Colorful, delicious and highly decorated ready-made snacks allure children and excessive consumption of them is harmful.But if you can spend a little time for preparing these home-made healthy snacks, you can at least stop your child from ordering those junk foods like pizza and burgers .Try to make something interesting with using different veggies and create some healthy snacks,in the evening when kids come back after school.

Ingredients

• 1 cup Cabbage,grated
• 1/2 cup Capsicum,finely chopped
• 1/2 cup Onions
• 1 cup Potatoes,boiled and mashed
• 1/2 cup Beetroot,boiled and grated
• 2tsp Garam masala
• 2 Green chillies,finely chopped
• 1tsp Red chilly powder
• 1/4 cup Coriander leaves,finely chopped
• 1 cup Bread crumbs
• 1/2 cup Maida
• 1tsp Jeera/cumin
• 1tsp Garlic cloves,chopped finely
• 1tsp Ginger,chopped finely
• Salt As per taste
• 1/2 cup Semolina/rava
• 2tbsp Corn flour

Cooking Directions

1. Wash and boil potatoes and beetroot in a pressure cooker till soft.
2. Grate boiled beetroot and keep aside.
3. Mash potatoes and transfer to a big bowl.
4. Heat 2tsp oil in a kadai/pan,add cumin,let it splutter.
5. Then add chopped ginger and garlic and saute for couple of seconds.Add chopped green chillies and saute again for a second.
6. Now add grated cabbage,capsicum and onions and fry for 2 minutes till crisp.
7. Add boiled and grated beetroot,chilly powder,garam masala powder and salt and mix all the ingredients well and switch off the gas.
8. Let the mixture cool down a bit.Then add this to boiled and mashed potatoes and mix it well with your hand.
9. Add maida and bread curmbs and mix till all the ingredients combines well and the mixture resembles to roti dough.
10. Divide the dough into 20 equal parts and shape the mixture into oblong croquettes and keep aside.
11. Mix semolina and cornflour and roll all the croquettes in this mixture and arrange on a plate.
12. Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the cutlets until brown on all the sides.Drain on absorbent paper
13. Serve hot with tomato sauce.