Beetroot Cutlet

I love cutlet that too when it is home made, my mom use to make cutlet or halwa using beetroot very frequently during my childhood days. Today I made this for first time, just for a evening snack. It came out so good and taste yummy.

 
Ingredients:

Beetroot: 1 (boiled)
Carrot: 1 (boiled)
Potato : 2 (boiled , smashed)
Chilli Powder - 1 teaspoon
Coriander Powder - 1 teaspoon
Garam Masala (optional) - 1 teaspoon
Onion - 1(finely chopped)
Coriander - few (finely chopped)
Salt - to taste
Bread crumbs - 6-8  tablespoon
Green chilli - 1(finely chopped)

Method:

1. Pressure cook beetroot and carrot together for 3 whistles and drain water completely. Once water drained, smash beetroot and carrot in a blender or smash it using potato smasher. Make sure no lumps are found.
2. Boil potato separately and smash it well and keep it aside.
3. Mix potato, beetroot carrot mixture, onion, green chilli, coriander leaf, chilli powder, coriander powder and salt.



4. To remove moisture from the above mixture, add bread crumbs around 4 tablespoon and make a thick consistency mixture.
5. Make balls of equal size and flatten it to form round cakes and set aside.
6. Sprinkle breadcrumbs over flat cakes and make sure cutlet is coated well with bread crumbs.



7. Heat tawa and place this cutlet by drizzling few oil over it. Cook the cutlet until both the sides turns crispy and brown.




Yummy, crispy and tasty cutlet is ready to be served. Serve it tomato ketchup.

Kadai Mushroom

My co-sister loves this mushroom gravy so much. I started cooking mushroom after my marriage. Mushroom gets cooked so easily and this kadai mushroom is very simple to make. As said earlier, for all kadai subji, kadai mushroom, kadai paneer base is Kadai masala. It is very simple to make kadai masala with ingredients at home. Kadai dishes goes well with Naan, Roti, Chapathi and even with jeera rice and coconut pulao. It is little spicy gravy but yummy when it is served hot with rotis.

Ingredients:

Onion - 1 no (finely chopped)

Onion - 1 no (diced into cubes)

Tomato - 1 (ripen, large, finely chopped)

Kasturi methi - 1 tablespoon

Mushroom - 1 cup (sliced as shown below)
Capsicum - 1 (diced into cubes)
Coriander leaf -to garnish

Cinnamon stick - 2 nos

Cardamom - 3 nos

Oil - 2 tablespoon

Ginger garlic paste - 2 teaspoon

Turmeric powder - 1/2 teaspoon

Chili powder - 1 teaspoon scooped

Coriander powder - 2 teaspoon

Salt to taste

Water - 3/4 cup

Butter - 2 tablespoon
Kadai masala - 1 1/2 teaspoon
Fresh cream - 2 tablespoon

 

Ingredients for Kadai Masala:

Cardamom - 2 nos

Cinnamon stick - 2 nos

Cloves - 4 no

Coriander seeds - 1 table spoon

Jeera - 1 1/2 teaspoon

Black pepper - 1 teaspoon

Dry Red chilly - 3 nos

Method to make Kadai Masala powder:

1. Dry roast all the ingredients mentioned in kadai masala and allow them to cool off. Grind it as a coarse powder in blender. Make sure blender is dry ( You can store this masala in refrigerator for a month).



Method to make Kadai Mushroom:

1. Heat oil in a pan and add cinnamon stick and cardamom and saute it for a minute. Add chopped onions and saute it until onion turns translucent colour. Add cubed onions to kadai and saute well.
2. Add ginger garlic paste to the saute onion and stir well.



3. To the above mixture, add tomatoes and saute for few mins. Now add turmeric powder, coriander powder, chili powder, salt to this gravy. Mix well and allow them to cook by adding little water.
4. Simultaneously heat butter in a separate pan and toss mushroom in it, until mushroom turns slight brown colour. While tossing mushroom, it leaves water. Toss it in slow flame until water evaporates.

 

5. Add butter tossed mushroom to onion tomato gravy. Similarly toss capsicum in butter until its raw smell vanish off.
6. Finally add tossed capsicum to the gravy and mix well. Allow the whole mixture to cook for 2 mins in medium flame. Once oil ooze out, add kasturi methi , kadai masala and stir well.



7. Before switching off flame, add fresh cream and mix well. Switch off the flame.
8. Serve Kadai Mushroom by garnishing it with chopped coriander.

Yummy, exotic Kadai Mushroom is ready to be served.