Recipe Name: Cabbage Vada

Recipe Name: Cabbage Vada

Cuisine: Indian

Serves: 4

Ingredients: 

• 3 cups cabbage (finely chopped)
• 3/4 cup chana dal (soaked overnight)
• 1/2 cup udad dal (soaked overnight)
• 1/2 tsp jeera (cumin seeds)
• 1 tsp pepper powder
• 1/4 tsp asafoetida
• 2 green chillies (chopped)
• 1/2 inch ginger (grated)
• Salt for taste
• Oil for frying

How to cook?

1. Drain the chana dal and urad dal.
2. Grind the dals in a mixer to form a smooth thick batter.
3. Add all the above ingredients (jeera, pepper powder, asafoetida, green chillies, ginger, salt) except oil to the dal batter and mix well.
4. Heat oil a pan to the required temperature (medium flame).
5. Make small round balls of the batter and drop it in the oil.
6. Fry it till it turns golden brown and crisp.
7. Remove from oil.
8. Serve with green chutney or tomato sauce.

Recipe Name: Chatpata Corn and Cheese Bhel

Recipe Name: Chatpata Corn and Cheese Bhel

Cuisine: Indian

Serves: 4

Ingredients:
For the Bhel

• 150 gms Bhel (puffed rice)
• 100 gms sev
• 1 large potato boiled, peeled and chopped
• 1 large onion (finely chopped)
• 1 tomato (finely chopped)
• 3 tbsp coriander leaves (finely chopped)
• 4 cubes cheese (grated)
• 1/2 tsp chat masala
• 3/4 cup American corn (boiled)

For Green Chutney

• 3/4 cup coriander leaves
• 1/2 cup mint leaves
• 3 tbsp lime juice
• 2-3 green chillies
• Salt to taste
• A little water to mix the ingredients well

For Tamarind Chutney

• 150 ml thick tamarind pulp
• 150 gm jaggery
• 1/2 tsp black salt

How to prepare?

Green Chutney

1. Grind all the ingredients for green chutney to a fine paste.

Tamarind Chutney

1. Boil all the ingredients for tamarind chutney in 1 cup water for about 10 minutes.
2. Keep it aside to cool.

Bhel

1. Mix all the ingredients for bhel along with green chutney and tamarind chutney (mix chutneys as per individual taste).

Recipe Name: Aloo Chaat

Recipe Name: Aloo Chaat

Cuisine: Indian

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• 3 large potatoes (boiled, peeled and cut into cubes)
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 3-4 green chillies (finely chopped)
• 1 small piece ginger (grated)
• 2 tbsp tamarind paste
• 2 tbsp coriander leaves (finely chopped)
• 1/2 tsp chat masala
• 3 tbsp oil for frying
• Salt to taste

How to cook?

1. Heat oil in a frying pan.
2. Add cumin seeds and let it splutter.
3. Add potatoes and salt.
4. Stir-fry potatoes until golden brown and little crisp. 
5. Add grated ginger and green chillies. Stir for 1 minute.
6. Add tamarind paste and chat masala. Mix well.
7. Turn off the stove and add coriander leaves.
8. Serve hot.

Recipe Name: Poha Cutlet

Recipe Name: Poha Cutlet
Cuisine: Indian

Serves: 4

Ingredients 

• 1 cup Poha (Beaten rice)
• 2 large potatoes (boiled and mashed)
• 1 1/2 cup green peas
• 3 green chillies
• 1 piece ginger
• 1/2 cup curd
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
• 1/2 tsp coriander powder
• 2 tbsp coriander leaves (chopped)
• Salt as per taste

How to cook?

1. Parboil the green peas and keep it aside.
2. Grind ginger and green chillies in a mixer to make a smooth paste.
3. Now mix the mashed potatoes, parboiled green peas, poha, ginger chilli paste, curd, turmeric powder, chilli powder, garam masala, coriander powder and salt.
4. Make a good mixture of all the above ingredients.
5. Add coriander leaves to the mixture and mix it again.
6. Now make small round balls of the mixture.
7. Heat oil in a frying pan.
8. Deep fry the cutlet both sides till it gets golden brown colour.
9. You can keep the cutlet pieces in a tissue paper, so that it absorbs excess oil.
10. Serve with tomato sauce, coriander or tamarind chutney.

Recipe: Suran (Oal) Cutlet

Recipe Name: Suran Cutlet

Cuisine: Indian

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• 2 cups suran (boiled and mashed)
• 1 cup chana dal
• 1/4 cup coriander leaves (chopped)
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 1 tsp chat masala
• Rawa (for rolling)
• Oil for frying
• Salt to taste

How to cook?

1. Soak chana dal in water for 2 hours.
2. Grind it to form a paste.
3. Mix suran, chana dal, coriander leaves, garam masala and chat masala and shape them into cutlets.
4. Roll it in rawa and deep fry in oil till golden brown.
5. Serve hot with coriander chutney or sauce.