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Veg Nuggets Recipe
Prep Time | 20 minutes |
Cook Time | 20 minutes |
Servings |
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Ingredients
- 250 cups grams’ potatoes 5 medium potatoes or 1.25mashed potatoes
- 50 cup grams’ green peas or ½green peas fresh or frozen
- 80 grams or 1 small to medium carrot or ½ cup minced or grated or finely chopped carrots
- 40 cup grams’ capsicum or 1 small to medium capsicum or ⅓finely chopped capsicum
- 1 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste or ½garlic paste + ½ginger paste or ½each of finely chopped ginger and garlic
- teaspoon ½dry oregano or any dried herb of your choice
- teaspoon ¼red chili powder or cayenne pepper
- teaspoon ¼garam masala powder or curry powder
- teaspoon ½crushed black pepper or pepper powder
- 1 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves or parsley leaves
- 3 tablespoon roasted besan or corn starch or rice flour or all purpose flour or arrowroot flour
- cup ¼grated processed cheese or 25 grams’ cheese grated
- salt as required
- cup ½quick cooking oats coarsely ground, can also use bread crumbs or ground corn flakes
- 2 tablespoon tablespoons besan + 2water
- Oil for deep frying
Instructions
prepping
- in a grinder jar or blender add ½ cup quick cooking oats.
- blitz or pulse till you get a coarse texture like. if you do not have oats, then use 4 to 5 slices of leftover bread. break them and add to the grinder. grind to a semi fine mixture. remove the ground oats in a plate or tray.
- steam or boil 5 medium potatoes and ½ cup green peas in a steamer or pan or pressure cooker.
- chop the coriander leaves and keep aside.
- roast the besan lightly till it becomes aromatic.
preparing the veggie nuggets
- while the potatoes are still warm, peel and then mash with a fork or potato masher.
- now add the cooked green peas, minced or grated or finely chopped carrots, finely chopped capsicum to the mashed potatoes.
- add all the spices and herbs. season with salt too.
- then add 3 tablespoons slightly roasted besan and ¼ cup grated processed cheese. you can also add corn starch or rice flour or all purpose flour instead of besan.
- mix very well and then add 1 to 2 tablespoon of the ground oats.
- mix again very well. check the taste and add more salt or spices if required.
- now make a flat log shape and slice the log into nuggets.
- you can even take a small portion of the mixture and shape in to nuggets. keep aside.
- in another bowl, take 2 tablespoon besan and 2 tablespoon water.
- mix very well to a smooth paste. instead of besan/gram flour you can take half-half of all purpose flour (maida) and corn starch. you can also take rice flour or maize flour.
- take each veggie nugget and dip in the gram flour batter.
- gently turn over so that the gram flour batter coats the nugget. remove and let the excess batter drip off.
- now place the batter coated nugget on the ground oats.
- gently turn and coat with the oats all over including the sides. alternatively, you can even sprinkle the oats all over the nugget.
- do this for each nugget and keep them aside.