Mixed Vegetable Cutlets;Vegan; Meatless Monday.

This weekend was our marriage ceremony anniversary. With Valentine's solar daytime roughly the corner, I decided to brand something special, romantic!

After all, it is rightly said, " the route to a man's pump is through his stomach"!

As usual, everything amongst me has to survive healthy, quick together with slowly but delicious! This is ane of my master copy recipes, which agency that I came upward amongst this recipe together with that it was non adapted from anyplace. I am happy to acre that this was a successful experiment equally everyone who ate it was all praises. You could distich it amongst cilantro chutney or yous could distich it amongst the skillful onetime love apple tree ketchup. I liked both.

This recipe could survive gluten complimentary if yous substitute sooji ( cream of wheat) amongst cornmeal. Instead of rolling the cutlet inward rawa, I added the sooji rawa inward the batter to arrive crispy. Notice that I also did non run starchy potatoes inward this recipe.
Do give this recipe a try, I bet that yous volition similar it!

Servings: makes 10-12 medium sized cutlets

Ingredients:

Beetroot: 1, medium-sized, cooked until tender.
Mixed vegetables: ii cups ( I used the frozen mix of peas, carrots, dark-green beans together with corn)
Cauliflower florets: 1 & 1/2 cups
Ginger garlic paste: 1 tsp
Green chilli: 1-2, finely chopped ( adjust equally per private spice level).
Coriander leaves: 1 tbsp, chopped
Garam masala: 1/2 tsp ( optional)
Cornflour: 1 tbsp
Sooji rawa ( cream of wheat/farina): 1/4 loving cup ( for gluten complimentary option, run cornmeal).
Salt to taste
Water to boil the vegetables.
Olive stone oil to grease the skillet/griddle.

Method:

Boil the whole beetroot amongst the tegument on, until tender ( roughly thirty mins on stovetop, faster inward the trace per unit of measurement area cooker). Keep aside.

Cook the mixed vegetables together with the washed cauliflower florets amongst H2O together with a pinch of salt, on the stovetop until tender ( nearly fifteen mins). Drain together with proceed aside.

Peel the cooled beetroot. Grate it. Squeeze the excess H2O out together with add together it to a mixing bowl.

To this, add together the cooked & drained cauliflower together with mixed vegetables. Using a spud masher, squelch the mixture equally much equally possible.

Add ginger garlic paste, chopped dark-green chillies, garam masala powder, chopped coriander leaves, cornflour, sooji ( cream of wheat or cornmeal) , common salt together with mix well.

Take ii heaped tbsp of the prepared batter together with using moisture hands brand a patty. Using a heart-shaped cookie cutter, cutting out the "heart" cast from the patty. Do this to all available batter.

Heat a griddle/skillet on medium until hot. Grease it using olive oil. Place the prepared pump shaped cutlets on the griddle/skillet.

Cook for 5-7 minutes on depression flame. Flip together with laid upward for some other 5-7 minutes or until the exterior is lightly golden.

Serve hot amongst ketchup or cilantro chutney/dip.

Enjoy!

I am bringing these hearts to my friends at Saucy Saturdays.Angie's Fiesta Fri co-hosts this calendar week are Steffi @ Ginger & Bread together with Andrea @ Cooking With a Wallflower.

This recipe is perfect for the lunch-box for the kids too..

Cooking made easy:

My batter was slightly runny together with so non trouble solid plenty to cast into "hearts". I so placed the cookie-cutter on the griddle together with added the batter within the cookie-cutter, thus creating the " heart" shapes. You tin follow this technique if yous aspect upward a similar issue.

Tip for salubrious living:

Beets are extremely nutrient-rich.They are purported to growth blood catamenia inward the body, cut down blood trace per unit of measurement area together with growth endurance.
It contains potassium,magnesium, iron, vitamins A, B6 together with C, folic acid, carbohydrates, protein,antioxidants and soluble fibre. Include beets regularly inward your diet.

References:

http://www.webmd.boots.com/healthy-eating/guide/beetroot-benefits
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/ingredient-focus-beetroot
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/277432.php

Food for thought:

Spread dearest everywhere yous go. Let no ane e'er come upward to yous without leaving happier. Mother Theresa