Vegetable
Croquettes
Healthy Fryer
Cooking Time: 25-30 minutes
Temperature: 180° C
Preparation Time
40 minutes
Ingredients
For potato fingers:
2 big potatoes boiled and grated
1 carrot grated
1 small capsicum finely chopped
1 small onion finely chopped
1 tbsp grated cabbage
¼ tsp salt and black pepper
1 cup approx white bread crumbs
1½ cup dry bread crumbs
2 green chillies finely chopped
1 tbsp olive oil
2-3 tbsp dry maida for coating
For white sauce:
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp maida
½ cup milk
¼ tsp dried oregano
¼ tsp dried basil
¼ tsp dried parsley
Salt and pepper to taste
For corn flour solution:
Mix 3 tbsp corn flour in 1 cup water
How to cook
Step 1 - For white sauce
Heat butter in a pan. Add 1 tbsp maida and stir for half a minute. The mixture will turn
frothy. Reduce the flame and add milk while stirring continuously. Stir, till it coats the
back of the spoon. Add seasonings, salt and pepper to taste and remove from flame.
Step 2
Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a deep pan. Add onion and green chillies and sauté for a minute.
Add carrot, cabbage, capsicums and salt and continue to sauté till all the vegetables
are slightly softened.
Step 3
Transfer them into a bowl. Grate the boiled potatoes into the bowl. Adjust salt and
mix all the ingredients well together. Add the white sauce and mix. Also add the white
bread crumbs. Shape the mixture into small cork shaped croquettes.
Step 4
Wet the croquettes with a corn flour solution and coat with dry maida. Again wet the
croquettes and coat with dry bread crumbs. Do this 2-3 times. Arrange the croquettes
on a plate and cover them with cling wrap and freeze to be used when required.
Step 5
Pre-heat Healthy Fryer for 5 minutes at 180° C. Arrange the croquettes in fry basket
and close it properly. Keep the fryer at 180° C for 25--30 minutes. Turn the croquettes
over in between to cook uniformly. Serve hot with green chutney or sauce.
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Baked
Chick-Pea Stars
How to cook
Step 1
Drain the soaked chanas. Add ½ tsp of salt and enough water to submerge the
chanas. Pressure cook the chanas for 20-25 minutes or till soft. Remove from flame
and mash finely with a potato masher.
Step 2
Add ginger-garlic paste, coriander powder, onions, jeera powder, coriander leaves,
salt, pepper, green chilli and 1 tbsp curd and mix lightly with hands.
Step 3
Flatten the mixture to ½” thickness and cut star shaped cutlets. Mix 1 tbsp curd with
mint and spread this over the round cutlets. Sprinkle sesame seeds to coat on all the
sides.
Step 4
Pre-heat Healthy Fryer for 5 minutes at 140° C. Arrange the stars in fry basket and
close it properly. Keep the fryer at 140° C for 25-30 minutes. Turn over the stars in
between to cook uniformly. Serve hot with tomato ketchup or mint chutney.
Healthy Fryer
Cooking Time: 25-30 minutes
Temperature: 140° C
Preparation Time
60 minutes
Ingredients
½ cup white chana soaked overnight.
½ tsp ginger-garlic paste.
2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves.
1 green chilli finely chopped.
1+1 tbsp thick curd.
Salt and pepper to taste.
½ tsp dry mint.
2 tbsp roasted sesame seeds.
1 small onion finely chopped.
¼ tsp coriander powder.
¼ tsp jeera powder.
Oil for greasing.
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