Mixed bean cutlets

Taste of Mysore went without posts for 3 months. Many thanks to all those followers who tightly stayed on board without loosing patience! Thanks to one and all who left their comments, mails and scraps to check my well being. It was a tough sail  for past 3 months and things are slowly settling down. Recently I had mixed beans which I cooked to make palya/Usli (stir fried vegetable) but I changed my mind and started making cutlets. They came out very well and soon came the request to blog it from my hubby. Here you go with the recipe...

Mixed Beans : 2 cups (Kadalekaalu/Chickpeas/Kalachana, Hesarukaalu/greenbean/sabootmoong), Alasandekaalu (black eyed beans/peas))

Soak them for 7 hrs and cook them. Drain water and keep them aside

Potato :  4 big (cook with its skin intact, cool and refrigerate for 2 hrs)

Seasoning :

Oil-1tbsp,

Jeerige/Jeera - 1/2 tsp

green chilli and ginger paste-1/2 tsp

coriander powder : 1/2 tsp-1tsp

redchilli powder : 1 tsp (use more if you want to make it hot)

garam masala powder : 1 pinch

chopped coriander : 2 tbsp

salt

Oil for deep frying

bread crumbs -2 cups

Maida 2tbsp mixed in 1/2 cup of water (1/2 cup=50 ml)

Method :

1. Peel the skin of potatoes and grate them.

2. Mash cooked beans or blend it for 1 or 2 rounds in a blender/mixer grinder

3. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and when it is hot add jeera. When jeera turns golden brown add ginger and green chilli paste and sautee. Next goes coriander powder, red chilli powder and salt. Mix them well and add chopped coriander leaves and garam masala.

4. Add mashed beans to this above mixture and mix well. You may want to turn off the stove at this stage. If you feel that the mixture is too moist, turn on the stove and sauteed till water evaporates.

5. Add the above mixture to grated potatoes and mix well. Add lemon juice at this stage if you like tangy taste. Taste the mixture and adjust salt levels at this stage.

6. The potato bean mixture looks dry and becomes like dough.Make small balls from this mixture and press them down to make a circle of 5 cm diameter. Cutlet patties are ready to be deep fried.

7. Dip these patties in maida water and immediately dust it with bread crumbs.

8. Heat oil in a frying pan and deep fry these patties till they turn golden brown.

9. Serve with tomato sauce or any other sauce/chutney/dip of your choice. Enjoy them hot!

Happy Deepavali to you all

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Taste of Mysore wishes all it's readers and visitors a very happy and prosperous deepavali.

Benne Chakkuli / Benne Muruku

Benne Chakkuli/Muruku is one of the popular snacks in Karnataka. Probably they would never say 'No' to it if you offer them a bowlful of it with coffee or tea like this :D

Caution : Highly addictive high calorie food :)

Here is how you make them :

Easy way : 

MTR or any store bought Muruku mix  - 4 cups

Ghee(Melted Butter) : 2-3 tbsp

Salt as per taste

Sesame seeds -1 tbsp

Cumin seeds - 1tsp

Omam Seeds -1tsp 

Oil for deep frying. Heat oil on medium flame while to prepare the chakkuli dough.

Mix all ingredients except Ghee. Melt ghee and pour over the muruku flour. 

Rub ghee and flour well. Take 1 cup of this mixture at a time and add water to make a soft dough.

Take this dough in muruku maker and press them to make long sticks. Deep Fry in hot oil over medium flame till it is golden brown.

Drain them on a absorbent paper and let them cool down before you munch them..er...keep munching...it goes on batch after batch..

Straneous Way :

Rice/Akki :  4 cups

Deskinned black lentils/Uddinabele : 1 and 1/4 cups

Wash and soak rice and lentils separately for 2 hrs.

Drain water and let them dry separately in a shady area.

When both the ingrediants are thoroughly dried they are milled/powdered together to make flour/fine powder. 

Use 4 cups of the above flour and follow the procedure given above in the 'Easy Way' omitting 'Muruku mix'

Tasty Benne Chakkuli  for you all with little art...

 

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