Potato Coconut Pattice

NAVRATRI DAY 4

Ingredients:

• 4 Potatoes, Boiled and grated
• 2 tbsp Rajgira flou
• 1 tsp Kottu flour (buckwheat flour)
• 1 cup fresh coconut grated
• 3 green chilies, finely chopped
• salt to taste 
• oil to shallow fry pattice

Procedure:

1. Mix together potatoes, rajgira flour, kottu flour, salt. Knead for a soft dough.
2. For stuffing mix coconut, salt and chilies together.
3. Now make small ball of dough and pat it a little on hand itself to fill the stuffing, now close it to make a flat pattice.
4. Roll the pattice in Rajgira flour and shallow fry in a pan till crispy on both sides.
5. Can have with tea or accomplished with yogurt / coconut chutney / peanut chutney....

Sweet potato tikki

NAVRATRI DAY 3

Ingredients:

• 2 Sweet potatoes grated
• 1 Potato boiled
• 2 tbsp Kuttu flour (buckwheat flour)
• 2 tbsp Rajgira flour 
• salt to taste 
• Oil for shallow frying
• 1 tsp chili powder 
• For Serving : Yogurt, Black salt, chili powder

Procedure:

1. Mix together all the ingredients.
2. Make the tikkis, roll them in rajgira flour and fry on pan till crispy on both sides.
3. Serve with Yogurt and sprinkle some black salt and chili powder on it.
4. Enjoy

Raw Banana Pattice

Ingredients:

1. 4 Raw banana Peeled-> chopped-> boiled in water for 2-3 min
2. 1 boiled potato medium sized
3. 1tsp cumin
4. 1 tsp garam masala
5. 2 green chili chopped
6. 1/2 tsp amchur powder (optional)-> raw mango powder 
7. salt to taste
8. oil for shallow fry, can also do deep fry
9. 1/2 cup semolina (or poha powder-> i grind the poha in grinder)

Procedure:

1. Mash cooked banana and potatoes together with a fork
2. Add salt , green chili, cumin, amchur powder, garam masala and mix well
3. make small medium sized pattice or tikki
4. Roll them in semolina before frying
5. Shallow fry on pan or deep fry
6. Serve with tomato ketchup or any chutney

Corn Tikki

15 August 2010 Indian Independence day special ' Corn Pattice' with Tomato Ketchup, Coriander Chutney, Spicy  yogurt. 

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup Sweet Corn kernels (uncooked)
2. 2 boiled and mashed potatoes
3. 2 green chillies
4. 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
5. 1 tsp garam masala
6. 1 cup fresh chopped coriander
7. Salt to taste
8. 1 cup semolina
9. 2 tbsp plain flour (maida)
10. Oil for shallow fry

Procedure:

1. Mix well all above ingredients except Semolina and Plain flour.
2. Add Plain flour if only necessary. (if you can make tikki without adding the flour thats good, if not add flour )
3. After making tikki, roll the tikki in semolina and shallow fry in a pan. Fry until slightly brown.
4. Serve with coriander chutney or tomato ketchup or spicy yogurt.
5. Adding Spicy yogurt recipe in my next post. Enjoy

Ragada Pattis

Ragada Pattis (Spicy peas curry with Potato pattice)

This is my one of the most favorite food.My mom is expert in this. Love you mom.

Ingredients:
For pattice
500gm Potatoes
1 cup bread crumbs
1 green chili crushed
1tbsp ginger garlic paste
1 tsp turmeric powder
salt to taste

For tamarind Chatni
1/2 cup tamarind soaked
1/4 cup dates
2 tbsp jaggery
salt to taste
1/2 tsp chili powder

For Mint chatni
1/2 cup mint
1/2 cup fresh coriander leaves
1 green chili
salt to taste

For Ragada
2 cups dried peas (soaked overnight)
1tbsp garam masala
1/2  tsp turmeric powder
1tsp ginger garlic paste
1tsp chili powder
2-3 bay leafs
salt to taste

For Garnishing
2-3 finely chopped onion
a bunch of coriander chopped
1 cup yogurt

Procedure:

For pattice
Boil potatoes until soft. Then peel and mash with bread crumbs, ginger garlic paste, salt, chili, turmeric powder and make some pattice.Shallow fry the pattice on frying pan until a little crispy .Here in above picture I baked the pattice, as I was running out of time.

For chutneys:

Tamarind Chutney : Grind all the Ingredients in a grinder. Taste and adjust salt and Jaggery.
Mint Chutney         : Grind all the Ingredients in a grinder. Taste and adjust salt.

For Ragada:

Soak the peas overnight. Next day boil until soft. Add some salt while boiling.
In a pot add oil, bay leaves and fry for few seconds then add ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, garam masala and cooked peas, boil for 10 min. Taste and add salt and a little chili powder.

For Serving : first put pattice in a plate then ragada and then chopped onions, coriander, and top with mint chutney, tamarind chutney and yogurt. Yummy

Peas and potato pattice

In January the fresh peas season starts in India.
Aai (mother) makes 'Masale Bhat' and 'Matta' on 26th January for Republic Day.
And sweet will be offcourse Jalebi.
But today I am posting another recipe by my aai called Pattice. Made up of Potatoes and fresh Peas. (or frozen)

Ingredients:
500 gm Potatoes boiled
250 gm peas
1 onion chopped
1tsp garam masala
1/2 tsp ginger garlic paste
1/2 coriander powder
1 cup bread crumbs
1 cup fine semolina
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/4 tsp chili powder
oil for frying
1 cup yogurt
9-10 mint leaves
1 chilli fresh
salt to taste

Procedure:
1)For filling:
          In a pan heat oil add onions and fry untill translucent.
          Add turmeric, chili, coriander, garam masala powder and ginger-garlic paste. Fry for 2-3 min.
          Add fresh peas and fry than put lid and cook for 3-4 min.
          Add salt to taste. And let it cool for few min.
2) Mash the potatoes and mix in the bread crumbs, salt. Dont prepare the mixture too early as it tends to get get very soft and stick because of salt, you will unable to make ball. So prepare when you are ready to make pattice and fry.
3) Now make small balls of potato mixture and flaten it on palm, then fill the peas mixture and make the ball again and flatten a little bit.
4) Roll it on fine semolina or bread crumbs, and than goes on frying pan with a little oil. Make crispy.
5) Do the same with rest.
          For Chutney / Dip:
                     1) Grind Mint leafs and 1 chili ,salt together.
                     2) Mix with yogurt.