Vegetable Chop || Veg Chop || Bengal style - vegetable Cutlet

Today's special recipe - bengal style , vegetable chop || veg chop || vegetable cutlets. It tastes crispy outside and smooth inside with crunchy bites of fried groundnuts in it. These cutlets are not only yummy but also healthy and perfect tea time snack. This is Bengal street food and also popular in Odisha too. It is my favorite snack when i was in Khurdha Road 😋. Most of kids do not like beet root, i personally feel this is the best way to make them to have it intrestly. 

Taking this super healthy, regional and tasty West Bengal street food - Vegetable chop to Shhhhh Secretly Cooking Challenge fb group started by Priya of Priyas Versatile Recipes and taken further till date by Mayuri she blogs at Mayuris jikoni.  Here admins will select one Indian state in alphabetical order. And they pick pairs for theme, pairs will share 2 ingredients, using that ingredients we will prepare recipe and post it in group album. Other group members will guess the secret ingredient. This month i am paired with Narmadha she blogs at "Namscorner".  She gave me peanuts and bread crumbs as secret ingredients, in turn i gave star anise and reen chilli for her, she prepared Bengali Dum Aloo.She is very talented chef who loves to record her tried and tasted recipes just like me :) . Check out her space for tasty veg and non vegetarian recipes from different regions, i book marked
her falafel recipe to try.  Do checkout her space.. I got this recipe from Poonam's space :) 
                                                                                                                                         

Let's start recipe..


  

          West Bengal - Vegetable Chop

Preparation time : 10 min
Cook Time : 20 minutes
Serves : 4
Category : Snacks/ Starters / Regional
Recipe Cuisine: West Bengal
Main ingredient: beetroot
Author : Aruna SarasChandra


   


Ingredients

Beet root -2 (small)

carrot -2 (small)

potato -1 (big)

fried peanuts - 2 tsp

green chillies - 4 (adjust)

ginger -1 inch

coriander leaves - 1 tsb(chopped)

bread crumbs - 1 cup

garam masala - 1 tsp

corn flour - 2 tsp

salt as per taste

oil - to deep fry

Instructions

1) Clean veggies well so that mud and dust remove well from veggies.Cook veggies for 2 whistle, let the veggies cool then peel its skin. 

2) In large bowl grate all the veggies, green chillies and ginger.

3)Fry peanuts till it changes color let it cool and remove its skin.(i have fried peanuts so i used it).

4) If you have bread crumbs used it, otherwise fry bread on pan, till it roast both sides. cut into pieces and grind it fine powder.

5)  Add 1/2 cup bread crumbs, lightly crushed peanuts, salt, garam masala in grated veggies mixture. 

6) Mix the above mixture well, pinch out some mixture mould and give obolong shape.

7) heat oil to deep fry, prepare cornflour slurry( add  2 tsp of corn flour in half cup of water). Dip prepared chop in a cornflour slurry, immediately roll it in bread crumbs. Tap excess bread crumbs with your fingers and keep it aside. 

8) Check oil heat by dropping some mixture, if it comes up immediately then drop preapred chop and fry it in low to medium flames till it changes color both sides and take it into plate / tissue paper. Repeat the same process for remaining.

That's it our vegetable chops are ready to serve. Garnish it with chopped coriander, onion rings, tomato ketchup or chilli sauces. This is best and healthy evening snack to serve with hot tea and even can serve in small parties at home. Serve hot and enjoy with your friends and family :) .

I kept 4 chops which is ready to fry in fridge before going my mom's place. Next day hubby kept it out for some time (till it reach room temperature) and directly fried in oil :) 

Tips

** Grate veggies properly, adjust spicy according to your taste.

** After frying veg chop, make sure oil is not much heat. Otherwise chops will burn, so take care while frying.

Also check other related snacks / straters by just clicking the link below pic.

                       Gobi Manchurian

              
                  corn cheese balls

             
               Baby corn manchurian

                      Baby corn fritters

          Dry cabbage manchurian

                          Paneer Tikka

           Rava / Semolina Pizza

          Veg chow mein noodles

 

Stuffed Mirchi bajji

                          Paneer pinwheels

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Omapodi || Karapusa || Sev, how to prepare Omapodi recipe

Today's recipe is one of my favorite snack - Omapodi || Karampusa || Sev. It is very crispy, aromatic and tasty snack looks like thin crunchy noodles prepared using gram flour/ besan / senaga pindi. It is very easy to prepare at home freshly in less time. Ajwain seeds are also known as vamu in Telugu, Omam in Tamil, Oma in Kannada.  The main flavors of this omapodi recipe is from ajwain seeds / vamu / carom seeds. If you want to prepare plain sev then simply skip adding carom/ajwain seeds. I always prefer adding this ajwain seeds while preparing sev as it adds more taste and flavor to plain sev, rice flour is added to keep sev crisp for long time. Sev is basic snack recipe that we use it in preparation of many snack and chaat item like dal moth, bhel poori, pani poori, papad chaat etc., many more recipes in my list to share with you all. I have many childhood memories with this sev recipe, my Balu doddappa use to prepare this sev for their hotel, i use to see how he prepare this crunchy besan noodles and enjoy eating hot sev 😍😋. Also check other snack recipe like 
peanut masala chaat 
corn flakes chivda
masala chickpeas
spicy masala peanuts

If we add ajwain seeds directly while mixing flour it will struck in small holes of pressing machine plates. So there are few different ways we can use ajwain seeds. Few method which i know are :

1) Fry ajwain/carom seeds grind to fine powder add hot water and set it for 10 minutes then strain the ajwain water and use  that ajwain water while mixing dough(i prefer this way).
2) Fry vamu / ajwain seeds and soak it in hot water for minimum 10  minutes, strain it and use that water.
3) Fry ajwain seeds and grind it till you get fine powder by adding besan flour then sieve the flour and mix it with remaining flour and prepare smooth dough. This is time taking process but can get full flavors of ajwain in omapodi.

You can follow any of the above process to make this omapodi || sev recipe. Just make sure that dough is not thick it must be smooth then only you can spread sev easily in oil. I used pistol model murukku machine, you can use any type of machine available with u. But make sure that you are using small holes plate as sev taste yummy if it is thin :) .

Let's start recipe...


                           Omapodi || Sev recipe


  


Preparation Time : 5 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 1 bottle, more than 250gms
Category : Snacks
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Main ingredients : Besan flour / gramflour / senagapindi
Author : Aruna SarasChandra

   



Ingredients

Besan/gram flour/ senagapindi - 2 1/2 glass

rice flour - 1 glass

ajwain seeds - 3 tsp

red chilli powder - 1 tsp

turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

hing - 1 pinch

butter - 1 tsp(melted)

salt as per taste

oil- to deep fry + 1 tsp

curry leaves - 1 sprig

Instructions

1) Heat water and fry ajwain seeds / vamu in a pan till you get nice aroma, let it cool for a some time. Then powder it finely in mixer jar or crush it using motor pistle and soak it in hot water for 10 minutes.

2)Heat oil in a pan on low flames, sieve both besan and rice flours in a wide bowl then add red chilli, turmeric powders, salt ,hing and mix everything well.

3) Now filter ajwain seeds water and add to the above flours along with melted butter , hot oil and mix it to smooth non sticky dough.(**check tips)

4) Grease oil inside pressing machine, place small holes plate  and fill dough in pressing machine as shown below.

5) Make sure oil is heat, drop some dough in oil if it comes up immediately then ur ready to drop sev. Rotate pressing machine by pressing it as shown below.

 6)  After dropping sev fry it on low-medium flames for few seconds then flip to other direction fry till you feel its crisp and take it into bowl which contain holes or place it on tissue paper. Repeat the same process for remaining dough.

At last fry curry leaves in oil till it becomes crisp and add it into sev. Thats it crispy, aromatic and tasty Omapodi || sev is ready to serve. It is travel friendly snack to, you can have as it is or pair it with any snack item. Prepare this Omapodi freshly at home and enjoy with your family 😍.

                     

Tips

** Sieve both the  flours before preparing dough, so that you can mix dough easily without any lumps.

** Make sure that dough is smooth, if you feel it hard after some time while preparing sev, sprinkle some water and make dough smooth again.

** Make sure that oil is not too heat or less heat maintain constant temperature. 

** you can skip adding red chilli powder, sev color depends on the type of red chilli powder you are using. Today i used kashmiri red chilli powder so sev came bit red in color.

** You can add ginger garlic paste if you like that flavor.

Also check other snacks by clicking the link below pic..

                                                  spicy masala peanuts

   
                                   
                                  JackFruit seeds Vada

                       Baby Corn Fritters

                                   Rava / Semolina Pizza

     Roasted Masala Chickpeas / Masala coated Kabuli Chana fry
          

                               Veg chow mein noodles

                    Dry cabbage manchurian

                                          Paneer Tikka

 

Stuffed Mirchi bajji

                                      Paneer pinwheels

                                        Pepper sev

Gujarat hi Methi Masala Khakhra

               Vaamu Aaku bajji

                                         Corn flakes chivda

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