Keerai Cutlet Recipe

Greens occupies an important place in our diet, an excellent way of make kids eat the greens as snack items.. You can make the preparation very very simple stir fry with a lots of goodness and yet delicious with its unique taste and your family surely loves it.. 

My kids has a greens day function in their school they ask them to prepare food with greens / keerai. so i decided to make some more different for that i search net to make keerai recipes but it not useful to me.. Then i plan to make keerai cutlet and keerai rice for them and I prepare the keerai rice by adding keerai masiyal to the cooked rice and some ghee and packed them..Then next cutlet chopped greens / keerai and add to the normal potato cutlet and deep frying them..

The taste is simply superb and my kids were enjoyed to have it... Even my daughter finished her lunch and told me mom it is really superb and i finished quickly...

So hope you try this different type of cutlet for your kids those who dont like greens / keerai...and comments about the recipe...

Preparation time : 10 mins

Frying time - 4 mins

Makes - 12

Recipe category - snacks

INGREDIENTS :

Greens / Arai keerai - 1 cup (wash and finely chopped)

Potato - 1 1/2 (boiled and mash)

Onion - 1 (chopped)

Bread crumbs - 1 cup

Chilli powder - 1 tspn

Garam masala powder - 1/2 tspn

Turmeric powder - 1 pinch

Asafoetida - 1 pinch

Maida - 3 tbspn

Water - for mixing 

Curry leaves - few

Salt - as needed

Oil - for frying

METHOD :

• Heat a pan with oil add in onion and chopped greens / arai keerai and toss well for 3 mins. Keep aside..
• In a bowl add mash potatoes, chilli powder, garam masala powder, bread crumbs, turmeric powder, asafoetida, curry leaves and atlast add tossed greens and mix well into a dough..
• Now roll it into a small round flattened shape cutlets and keep aside.
• Then in a small bowl add maida and little bit of water and make a thick paste..
• Then take bread crums in a plate, now take keerai round cutlet and dip it one by one into the maida paste.
• Quickly take it out and coated both side with the bread crumbs.
• Repeat the process for the rest and arrange in a plate.
• Now deep fry it in a medium flame both sides untill crispy..
• Enjoy hot with tomato sauce... as a snacks

PICTORIAL :

Take your ingreients

Heat a pan with oil

Add in onions

Chopped greens and toss well for 4 mins

Take a mash potatoes in a mixing bowl

Add in chilli powder

Some garam masala powder

Bread crumbs

Few curry leaves

Then salt and asafoetida

Apinch of turmeric powder

Then tossed greens

Mix well in to a dough

Roll it into cutlet shapes

Take these items

Dip the cutlets in to maida paste 

Coated both sides with bread crumbs

Like this

Heat a pan with oil for frying

Fry it till it crispy and brown in colour

Now Drain it in tissue papper

Now it's ready 

 Serve with ketchup

Enjoy...