Sweet Potato Cutlet | Starter Recipes | Snack Recipes
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Recipe type: Starter/Appetizer
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 10-12 tikkis
 
Bright with summer colours, spicy and chatpata, sweet potato cutlet
Ingredients
  • 200 Gm or 1 big diced sweet potato
  • ½ Cup fresh or frozen green peas
  • 2 Tbsp besan
  • ½ Tsp red chilli powder
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 heaped Tsp chaat masala or amchur powder
  • 1 chopped onion
  • ¼ Cup roasted groundnuts
  • 1-2 grated garlic
  • ½" grated ginger
  • 1 finely chopped fresh red/green chilli (optional)
  • ¼ Cup chopped coriander
Method
  1. In a pan, roast groundnuts till golden and roasted, keep aside
  2. Take the roasted groundnuts in mortar
  3. Pound them coarsely using a pestle
  4. In another pan, dry roast besan till fragrant on low flame
  5. Cook sweet potato in water till soft
  6. Pierce a sweet potato and check if it soft, turn off flame
  7. Add peas and close a lid and let the peas cook for a few minutes in the residual heat
  8. Drain the cooked sweet potato and green peas and let them cool
  9. Mash with a potato masher into a coarse mixture
  10. Next add finely chopped garlic and red chilli
  11. Add finely chopped onion and mix very well till everything is well incorporated
  12. Next add all dry masalas, red chilli powder, chaat masala or amchur powder
  13. Tip in the roasted besan and pounded groundnuts
  14. Finally add chopped coriander and give a good mix
  15. Smear some oil in a wide pan or skillet or tawa
  16. Pinch small tikki sized balls from the sweet potato mixture
  17. Make tikkis and flatten and them into the pan
  18. Drizzle some oil from sides
  19. Roast slowly till underside turns golden
  20. Flip and roast on the other side as well
  21. When both sides are golden and crisp and cooked through remove from heat
  22. Serve immediately with ketchup or pudina chutney
Notes
Try not to skip groundnuts, they add a distinctive taste

Adjust masalas as per your taste

If you feel the mixture is very sticky, add little more roasted besan
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/sweet-potato-cutlet/