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Sweet potato and peas tikki

An easy peasy and quick tea time snack recipe of sweet potato cutlets that even makes for a super lunch box idea. This healthy and yummy recipe is going to be your new chai time favorite
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings: 6 tikkis
Course: Appetizer, Finger food, Snack
Cuisine: Indian
Calories: 137
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 200 g sweet potatoes boiled and mashed
  • 50 g potato boiled and mashed
  • 60 g peas frozen or boiled
  • 2 tbsp rice flour
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • 2 tbsp chaat masala
  • 3-4 tbsp coriander leaves chopped finely
  • 2 fresh chilis chopped finely (omit when making for kids)
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • ½ cup bread crumbs
  • salt to taste
  • 3-4 tbsp oil for shallow frying
Fo garnishing
  • 1-2 tsp black salt kala namak
  • 1 tbsp coriander leaves chopped finely

Equipment

  • Frying pan

Method
 

  1. In a bowl, mix all ingredients (except the garnishing ones and oil) until well combined. Divide this mixture into 6 equal portions
  2. Now shape each of these into smooth balls and then gently flatten them out to make tikkis, keeping the thickness to about 1 cm. Dab them in bread crumbs and coat well
  3. Heat a shallow frying pan with the oil over medium heat and cook the tikkis, 3-4 at a time, until lightly browned and crisp on both sides
  4. Remove on a serving plate and immediately sprinkle the black salt and the coriander leaves. Serve the sweet potato tikkis with ketchup or mint chutney
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Notes

  • Some options, besides peas that you could add to the tikkis are shredded spinach, grated carrots, boiled sweet corn, finely chopped steamed broccoli etc
  • You could also shallow fry the tikkis in ghee
  • The rice flour makes the cutlets crisp
  • tbsp - tablespoon
  • tsp - teaspoon
  • g - grams