Rajma Tikki Chat

RAJMA TIKKI CHAT

Ingredients:

For the Tikki or Cutlet:

Rajma (Kidney Beans):1 Cup

Potatoes: 2 (Boiled ,peeled and mashed)

Poppy seeds: 2 tbsp ( Dry roast them for 2 minutes & Keep aside)

Green Cardamons:2 nos

Black Cardamons:1 nos

Ginger-Garlic: Green chilies paste:1/2 tsp

Clove: 2 nos

Cumin seeds:1/2 tsp

Spinach Paste: 1 tbsp (blanched & grind into a blender)

Green Peas Paste: 1 tbsp (boiled and mashed)

Onion: 1 (small. finely chopped)

Sooji:1-2 tbsp

For assembling the Chat

Curd: 1 cup

Sugar: 1 tbsp

Onion: 1 (finely chopped)

Sweet Tamarind Chutney: 3-4 tbsp

Green Chutney: 4 tbsp

Method to Prepare Tikki

• Wash & soak Rajma in sufficient amount of water for 5-6 hours or overnight.

• Pressure cook Rajma in same water with salt for 20-25 minutes. Strain the Rajam from water . Keep the Rajma aside & allow it to cool down completely.

• Mash the Rajma well so that no lumps are there. Now add boiled & Mashed potatoes mixture in the Rajma and mix well.
 

• Dry roast all the spices and once they are cool down grind them along with Poppy seeds into a fine Powder.

• Add ginger garlic paste, spinach paste,green peas paste and the dry powder mixture in the Rajma and potatoes mixture and mix them well.

• Heat oil in a pan,add finely chopped onions & saute the onion in a medium flame till them turn translucent.

• Now add Rajma and Potatoes mixture and salt  & cook on a medium flame for about 4-5 minutes while stirring continuously.

• Allow the mixture to get completely cool.

• Add Sooji to the mixture and divide the Dough into equal Portion.

Note: You can also add cornstarch or Bread Crumbs instead of Sooji. I was not having either of them so I added Sooji to the mixture.

• Flatten the each ball from top and keep them aside.

• Heat a griddle or Tava & fry all these tikkis til they attain golden brown color. Take all the tikkis out in a plate and flatten them & shallow fry them again onto a Tava or Griddle to give Tikkis a crisp crust.

• Your kabab or tkkis is ready. You can serve yours tikkis as a kabab after this Step,

Method for Assembling Chat:

• Mix sugar in a curd and beat the curd till sugar fully dissolves.

• Arrange the tikkis onto a plate .

• Pour green & sweet chutney on the top of the Tikkis.

• Add finely chopped onions over it

• Add Curd on the top of the tikkis at last.

• Serve hot.

DABELI

Last Week i came from office early and i was watching TV. I was seeing the Serial Ek dusre se karte hain Pyaar mein where a girl asked for Dabeli in a street food and was enjoying  it. Suddenly that name strikes me and I just googled to Know what is Dabeli. Then i got to know that Dabeli is street food originating from Kutch in Gujrat, India. Dabeli literally means 'to be pressed' in Gujarati. So i jusr read out the recipes in google and wants to try it. I am extremally thanks to Amarendra of AMU'S RECIPES to brief in detail about the recipes.

As I have never tasted Dabeli before so I did little variation and tried my version of Dabeli. Which me as well as my Hubby really liked it as todays evening snacks.

Ingredients:

For Dabeli Filling:

Boiled & Mashed Potatoes: 5 (small)

Tamarind & Sweet chutney: 4 tbsp

Dabeli Masala:3 tbsp

Red chilly Powder:1/2 tsp

Chaat Masala:1/4 tsp

Amoochur Powder:1/4 tsp

Asafoetida: a pinch

Water:1/2 cups

Oil: 2-4 tbsb

Dry Roasted Peanuts: 6-8 tbsp

Chopped Onion: 6-8 tbsp

Pomengrate seeds: 4 tbsp

Coriander Leaves(finelly chopped): 4 tbsp

For Dabeli Masala:

Dry Red Chillies: 3

Cumin Seeds: 2 tsp

Dalchini Piece(cinnamon stick):1/2"

Coriander Seeds: 2 tbsp

Methi seeds: 1/2 tsp

Cloves:7-8

Method to make Dabeli Masala:

Dry roast all the ingeridents for dabeli masala for 3-4 minutes and once cooled down gring them into a fine Powder.

Other Ingredients:

Burger Buns(Pav: 6)

Butter: for cooking

Green chutney: 4 tbsp

Sweet Chutney: 4 tbsp

Sev:1/4 cup

Haldiram mixture:1/4 cup

Method:

For Dabeli filling: 

• Heat oil in a pan.
• Add asafotedia,dabeli masala and dates & tamarind dates chutney.
• Now add mashed Potatoes and mix it well.
• Add Red Chilly Powder,Chaat Masala and amoochar Powder and mix well.
• Now add water and salt.
• Cook it for 5 minutes. Switch off the flame.
• Now take a small plate and spread the filling evenly on the plate. Now allow it to cool for 15-20 minutes.
• Now one by one add layers of roasted peanuts,chopped onions,pomengrate seeds,chopped coriander and haldiram mixture over it.

• Divide them into 6-7 equal parts and keep aside.

To Make Dabeli:

• Slit the Pav horizontally.
• Add sweet chutney on one side and green chutney on another side.
• Now we have to place one portion of dabeli filling between the buns.
• Now dip the sides of dabeli in sev.
• Heat tawa or griddle and add tsp of butter.
• Roast the Dabeli from bot the sides.
• Serve hot.

SAMOSA

SAMOSA

Ingredients:

• Potatoes: 4 (Boiled,Peeled and mashed)
• Green Peas: 1/4 cup
• Ground Nut Moongfaali: 1/4 cup (Fried in little oil)

For Tempering:

• Oil: 2 tbsp
• Cumin Seeds: 1/2 tsp
• Fennel Seeds: 1/2 tsp
• Amoochar (DryMango Powder): 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric Powder: 1/2 tsp
• Red Chilly Powder: 1/2 tsp
• Garam Masala powder 1/2 tsp
• Crushed black pepper: 1/2 tsp
• Onion: 1 (Medium finely chopped)
• Green Chillies: 2 (finelly chopped)
• Ginger: 1/2" piece
• Salt: to taste
• Coriander Leaves : 4-5 tbsp (finelly chopped)

Oil: for Deep Frying

For the Cover

• Maida: 2 Cups
• Ajwain: 1/2 tsp
• oil: 4-5 tsp
• Salt: to taste
• Water to Knead the Dough

Method:

1) Heat oil in a pan over medium heat. Add Cumin seeds,fennel seeds,greenchillies,onions and saute it for 10 seconds.
2) Now add ginger and saute for few seconds..
3) Add Green Peas, mix them proper and cook it covered for a minute.
4) Now add Turmeric Powder,Red Chilly Powader and mashed potato. Mix it well.
5) Add Salt,Garam Masala,dry mango Powder and crushed black pepper. Mix nicely.
6) Cover and cook over low heat for 2 to 3 minutes.

For Cover

•  Prepare the cover for the samosa by combining the maida, hot or oil and salt to taste.
• Add enough water and knead the dough.
• Set aside for about 20 minutes.
• Now again give knead to thr dough and divide into medium sized balls.
• Roll each balls into a thin circle and cut them into 2 equal parts with knife. Apply water in the straight edge.
• Now make a cone by joining along the straight edges by overmapping. Spoon the stuff till 3/4 of the cone
• Close the cone and seal it properly. Repeat the same procedure for the rest of samosa.
• Heat oil in kadai. Drop 3-4 Samosa at a time and cook in a medium flame to ensure even cooking, until golden brown. 
• Drain the samosa in a paper towels.
• Enjoy these hot hot samosas with either green chutney or tomato sauce!

Vegetable Kabab

Vegetable Kabab

Ingredients:

Raw Banana: 1

Boiled Potato: 2 (small, Peeled and mashed)

Onion: 1 (Medium,chopped finely)

Rice flour: 1 tbsp

Carrot: 1 (Large,Peeled and grated)

Chopped Coriander: 1/2 cup

Chat Masala:1/2 tsp

Red Chilly Powder:1/2 tsp

Garam Masala:1/4 tsp

Lime Juice: 1 tbsp

Salt: to taste

Oil: for deep Frying

Method:

• Boil the raw Banana in a Pressure Cooker till one whistle and turn off the flame and allow the pressure cooker to cool by itself.
• Mash the boiled raw banan in a bowl and add all other remaing ingredients except oil.
• Make them into a shape of kabab and keep aside.

• Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the kababs.
• Take kabab into a absorbent paper and serve with chutney of your choice.

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