Oven baked vegetable cutlets

Super tasty and healthy vegetable cutlets:

Ingredients:

• 1 big potato
• 1 carrot
• ½ of a beetroot
• Green peas(optional)
• ½ of a big onion finely chopped
• 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 2 chopped green chilies
• 1-2 cup roasted peanuts
• ½ tsp Cumin seeds
• ½ tsp Coriander seeds
• ½tsp Fennel seeds
• 1-2 bay leaves
• 1 dry red chili
• ½ tsp black pepper
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2-3 cardamom
• 2-3 cloves
• 1-2 cup of chickpea flour
• 1 cup bread crumbs
• 1-2 tsp sugar( as per taste)
• Salt
• Oil

Method:

First boil the potato, carrot and beetroot together by adding some salt. Don’t boil too much. After boiling let them be cooled. Then smash the potato and carrot and chop the beetroot into very small pieces. Keep them aside. Then in a pan take all the dry spices and roast them for around 1-2 minutes. Make a fine powder from the spices by blending. Then in the same pan take 2 tbsp oil. Once the oil is hot fry the peanuts in medium flame until they become little brown in color. Take them out. Then in the same oil add chopped onions and chopped green chilies. Fry them until it becomes golden brown. Then add the ginger garlic paste. Cook it for around 30 seconds. Now add the smashed and chopped veggies. At this stage you can add green peas. Add the spices powder, peanuts, sugar and pinch of salt. Cook it on medium flame for 5-6 minutes. Now take off the pan and let it rest for cooling. Now in a bowl take the chickpea flour and pinch of salt( per taste). Mix it with water. Make a lumps free little thick batter. In an another plate take the bread crumbs. Now make small round shape balls from the veg mixture or whatever shape you like. Then deep the veg balls into flour mixture. Immediately after deeping take them out and coat them in the bed crumbs. Coat all the sides very well. Make all the balls from the veggies and keep aside.

For baking: Pre heat the oven to 350 degree F. Take a baking tray and Grease it with oil. Now take the balls and brush them with little oil on all sides. Bake them in the pre heated oven for 15 minutes.

For deep frying: You can also deep fry them. Take a pan. Heat 1 cup oil. When the oil is hot fry the cutlets.