Vegetable Cutlets

November 16th, 2007 filed under Appetizers, Vegan

Vegetable cutlets are filled with a great blend of vegetables and spices. These are great as an appetizer, afternoon snack with tea, or as a side dish with dinner.

Makes 10.

Vegetable Cutlets

Ingredients:

  • 2 medium potatoes, boiled, peeled and mashed
  • 1 cup chopped mixed vegetables (green peas, carrots, green beans, corn)
  • 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro (green coriander)
  • 2 finely chopped green chilies (adjust to your taste)
  • 1 teaspoon chopped ginger
  • 1 teaspoon salt (adjust to your taste)
  • 1 teaspoon mango powder
  • 3 tablespoon All Purpose flour (plain flour or maida)
  • 1 cup breadcrumbs
  • Oil to fry

Method

Steam the chopped mixed vegetables. Make sure to squeeze the vegetables to take the excess water out. Pat dry. Mix the steamed vegetables, green chilies, chopped ginger, mashed potatoes, mango powder, and salt together.

Add 4 tablespoons of water to the All Purpose flour to make a batter.

Divide the vegetable/potato mixture into 10 equal parts. Shape into flat round patties about 1/2 inch thick. Dip each patty in the flour batter, roll in breadcrumbs and set aside.

Heat the oil on medium high heat in a frying pan. Fry a few cutlets at a time until they are golden-brown on both sides. Note: The vegetable cutlets do not have to be fried. You can heat on a skillet using less oil until both sides are golden-brown. Repeat this until all the cutlets are done. Serve hot.

Tips

If the oil is not hot enough, the patties will break. If the vegetable/potato mixture looks wet, you can add some breadcrumbs.
You can always change the shape of the cutlets to your desired shape.

Serving suggestions

Cilantro chutney, sweet and sour tamarind chutney, and ketchup make great dipping sauces for the vegetable cutlets. Vegetable cutlets also make great veggie burgers, adding cheese lettuce, tomatoes, chutney or ketchup.



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44 Responses to “Vegetable Cutlets”

  1. Manjula Says:

    Hello Sandhya,
    Congratulation, Jaya has explained well, good to have variety of food, dals, green vegetables, fruits, dairy product and nuts. I do believe eating every day if possible in morning 5 to 8 almonds (before eating soak almonds for 4 to 5 hours in water and take off the skin) and drinking 2 to 3 glasses of milk. Avoid taking ice cold drinks. After having baby is more important what you eat and some of the old saying really works great. When time comes I can suggest few things. I hope this will help, wish you all the best.
    Manjula

  2. Jaya Says:

    Hi Sandhya,
    I personally don’t believe that certain dishes are necessary while pregnant. I find some of that to be based on tradition, not nutrition. Some traditional beliefs in some families are not healthy such as taking extra ghee. We understand food nutrition better today than a generation or more before us.

    I’m vegetarian and did well through 2 pregnancies. Include items from the important food groups each day such as dal dishes for protein, vegetable dishes to include vitamin rich vegetables like spinach, sooji is rich in iron and protein, yogurt and milk for calcium, fresh fruits for vitamins. Vitamin fortified cereals are also good so long as they are not too sugary.

    Be cautious of foods high in salt. If you purchase pre-packaged foods it’s important to read the nutrition label. Even some pre-packaged frozen food from the Indian grocery store are too high in salt and I don’t buy them.

    I don’t know if this helps you or not, but my point is to not focus on specific dishes, but rather just eat dishes that provide protein, vitamins, calcium, etc. Have variety in you diet as that is the best way to ensure you are getting a good combination of nutrients.

    I don’t want to go on too long, but would be happy to reply if you have further questions. :)

  3. Sandhya Jain Says:

    Hi,
    Being more specific i was talking about the various dishes that should be taken during pregnancy.. As in a woman needs to take care of health and eat nutritious food during pregnancy, so I just thought of asking if you have any recepies that can be taken… For example Moong Dal Dosa, Besan Puda etc etc..
    Anyways can you please post me the recepies for daldhokli, undhiyo and handavo.. I followed the same way u showed it and tasted really good.. Thanks..

  4. Jaya Says:

    Hi Sandhya,
    From a health and cardiac perspective, CANOLA OIL is the best because it has the least amount of “Saturated” fat that contributes to high cholesterol. The other oils are higher in saturated fat than Canola.

    If you are concerned about oil consumption, then avoid deep fried food. Some traditionally deep fried foods can be baked or shallow fried with Pam oil spray (the Canola oil variety). Ghee (being from butter) has a lot of saturated fat and should be avoided or used sparingly.

    Other Indian savories only taste right if they are deep fried and either must be avoided or taken in small quantities, infrequently.

    You, or whoever is pregnant, can also talk about diet questions to your Obtsetrician. Often they have someone within the office who does the dietary counselling or will refer you to the dietician at the hospital.

    Please post if you have further questions. :)

  5. Sandhya Jain Says:

    Hi Manjula,
    I tried the vegetable Cutlets shown by you.. Everybody at home liked it a lot.. Thanks for such wonderful receipes.. I want to know that which oil is best to use in our daily routine..? Whether vegetable oil is good or Sunflower oil or canola oil ?? And also the oil to be used for pregnant women..? Do you have any plans of putting up some healthy vegetarian food to be eaten during pregnancy..?

  6. Jaya Says:

    Another name for mango powder is “khatai”.

  7. Shehla Says:

    Hi Pinky,
    I am also from Pakistan,just to let you know that mango powder is called Amchoor.May be this would help you.

  8. Manjula Says:

    Hello Pinky, use lemon juice just little.

  9. pinky Says:

    hi Manjula how are you.i come from PAKISTAN.plz tell me about mango powder?if it is not available here so what is its alternate?

  10. Manjula Says:

    Hi Ramnath, I will do slowley more south Indian and gujrati dishes

  11. Manjula Says:

    Hi Savita, I dont know when but I will do more gujrati and south Indian dishes.

  12. Savita Says:

    Manjulaji, can you please post receipes for daldhokli, handavo and undhiyo. Your receipes are amazing and if followed exactly the way you have shown they come out perfect. Thanks for doing that.

  13. alessandra Says:

    Thank you so much Mrs. Manjula for your answer and advice.
    Thank you dear Jaya for the explanation about oil, very useful indeed.
    Sorry it took me such a long time to write back!!!

  14. ramnath bhagavath Says:

    hello Manjula auntie,
    namaskar! i come from chennai, currently living in toronto and am a strict vegetarian. i have been watching all your videos, they are all wonderful, and tasty. I would be even happier if i can get some south indian recepies too. Unfortunately i do not know the perfect recepies for those. I would be really thankful if you could help in this regard.
    Waiting for your reply.
    Ramnath

  15. Shehla Says:

    Thanks a million

  16. Manjula Says:

    Hi Shehla, yes you can freeze the cutlets after frying just make sure before freezing cutlets are at room temprature and wrap them before freezing.

  17. Shehla Says:

    Dear Auntie,
    Can I fry the cutlets and freeze them?
    Waiting for your reply.

  18. Jaya Says:

    Hi Alessandra,
    Olive oil has a lower smoking temperature which means it will get very hot much quicker than the other vegetable oils, so that would be my only concern. But if you are used to deep frying with olive oil then you should be fine.

    Secondly, if Canola oil is available in Spain it is the best oil from a health perspective because of all the oils it has the lowest content of “saturated fats” which contribute to problems with increased cholesterol. :)

  19. Manjula Says:

    Hi Alessandra,
    I preffer for frying canola oil, but any oil will work corn oil, peanut oil, vegetable oil

  20. alessandra Says:

    Dear Mrs. Manjula,
    Thank you so much for all your recipes. I’m learnig a lot and everything is delicious. I’d like to ask, please, which kind of oil is better to use? I live in Spain and olive oil is very good, but maybe a littke ‘thick’ for certain dishes.

    Thank you
    Best regards

    Alessandra

  21. Sridhar Says:

    Hi,

    I tried this Veg. Cutlet today. It was amazing. This is so far my best stint in the kitchen. Thanks for your recipes. Please give us more.

  22. priya Says:

    i tried this recipe and the cutlets were awesome..i guess the best i have ever made. thanks so much!!! your cooking skill rocks!!

  23. Shanti Says:

    I made these for my family. They were so very good, they are lucky I left them any at all!! Thanks for this wonderful recipe.

  24. Manjula Says:

    Hello Jitendra, do you mean undhiu a gujrati dish.

  25. Jitendra Mody Says:

    Hello Mrs. Manjula

    I need to make AANDWA could you please guide to me or post recipy or send me video to my email

    Thanks
    Jitendra

  26. kiwiboyorza Says:

    What a perfect patty for Vegetarian burgers!

    धन्यवाद Manjula!

  27. nicole smart Says:

    Thank you for this wonderful recipes. My son is a vegetarian so this is perfect for is family.

    Sincerely,
    Nicole

  28. Geeta Says:

    Hello Rajdeep,

    Thank you very much for the tips. We don’t eat egg, so, I will try plantain.

    Thank you once again.

    Warm regards,

  29. Geeta Says:

    Hello Mrs. Manjula,

    Thank you for your suggestion, I will try them.

    Warm Regards,

  30. rajdeep Says:

    hi geeta
    instead of potato u can use plantain .boil them and remove them from boiling water as soon as they are done dont let them stay in boiling water as they will absorb moisture,peel them and remove the extra moisture with paper towel and grate them i made kabab with them and they were wonderful.u can use egg wash instead of maida if u eat eggs.and then no need to use bread crumbs, i put frozen methi in them and they came out wonderful

  31. Manjula Says:

    Hello Geeta, You can use corn starch instead of Maida, instead of potatoes you can use paneer because you need a binding agent I am not sure for your third question but if I am you I will just try it.

  32. Geeta Says:

    Dear Smt. Manjula Ji,

    I love to watch your recipes as they are very simple, finer details are explained and very neatly done.

    I am a budding cook at home. Three queries about the vegetable cutlet -

    1. Can I use corn starch instaed of Maida to dip before rolling over bread crumps?

    2. Can I use chiroti rava OR roasted peanut powder instead of bread crumps?

    3. What else can I use instead of potato as binding agent as my husband does not prefer potato.

    Thank you very much.

    Warm regards,
    Geeta

  33. Jamie Says:

    Hi Manjula,

    Thankyou for publishing your cookery video’s. I have a genetic dietary condition and because your food is all vegetarian, it is, or can be adapted to be low protein (I’m unable to eat high protein foods). I will surely be trying some of your recipes soon, your video’s are well constructed and easy to follow.

    Jamie

  34. Louise Says:

    I stumbled across a link to your website today and I’m so glad I did! You’ve really done a great job here with the video demonstrations of your recipes. The vegetable cutlets sound really good and look easier than I ever would have guessed. I can hardly wait to try them. Congratulations on a wonderful web site.

  35. shiwani Says:

    hi taiji
    i was sitting on net , looing at new recipes & suddenly i saw ur name it clicked me that , i cud be u, i saw ur website & was amazed for a while , well u hve done a gr8 job, too gud , im surely going to try ur recipes so simple & nicely explained

    ok so let me tell u who i am, im anubha’s cousin who stayed ur place for miti’s marriage, do reply me if u get a chance
    will write u further

  36. Shobha Says:

    Hi Manjula,

    Congrats for the new website, I like all ur recipes and u explain it in detail which i love it to watch all ur videos. The cutlet looks yummy and i will try it out.

  37. Zaya Says:

    Dear Manula Didi…
    You are a god-send :) I made this tonight cause i had nbothing but some mixed vegetables and potatoes in the fridge… AI never thought of using cutlets as vegan burgers but it only makes sence :)
    I’VE POTED YOUR WEBSITE IN MY VEGAN BLOG so that everyone in the world can see what a GREAT TEACHER you are! You are the sweetest ever! :)
    Shrashtiyakal & God bless!

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  43. Divya Says:

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  44. johanna wright Says:

    hello Manjula!

    Congratulations!!!

    Your new website is beautiful…. and the videos and recipes so nicely presented…
    What a wonderful service… Will post on the Yogananda devotee message boards…

    See you next week,

    johanna