Kugan's Kitchen

[nithishri]

[tscii]Hey guys im back with two other recipes. Interesting ones .


1.Vazhakai and pattani Cutlet

Ingredients.
Vazhakai – 2
Green peas -1/2 cup
Coconut scrapings- less than ¼ cup
Green Chillies paste – 2 tbsp ( made out of 4 green chillies)
Kothamali
Lime juice
Raisins – 6
Cashews -4
Ghee
Arrow root ( I got this from the Chinese grocery store. It is called the Chinese potato or tse goo)
High medicinal value.Kedaikalana you can skip this ingedrient, but I would highly recommend adding this
Salt to taste
Sugar to taste


Method.
1.Boil the vazhakai and peas in the pressure cooker . Peel the vazhakai once it is boiled and then mash both of them.
2. Add salt and chopped arrow root to the mixture and make a smooth dough.
3.To this dough add coconut scrapping, kothamali, chilli paste, lime juice, little bit of sugar
4.Roast cashews and raisins in ghee and add to the above.
5. Make the dough into small balls and flatten them as we do for vadai.
6.Deep fry in the oil.

PS: You can also use potatoes instead of pattani.I personally prefer the one with peas.

Serve the cutlet with tomato cutney or pudhina chutney. Alternatively the above cutlet could be used to make another recipe called “Vazhakai cutlet in coconut sauce”

2.Vazhaikai cutlet in coconut sauce.

Ingredients
Vazhaikai and pattani cutlet – 10
Green chillies – 4
Coconut milk – 2 cups.
Salt and sugar to taste
Cumin Powder to garnish

Method
1.Bring the coconut milk to a nice boil. Keep stiring until it becomes thick and creamy.It would take around 10 minutes to get a creamy coconut sauce.
2.Add salt, sugar and chopped green chillies.Mix well
3. At this point slip in the cutlet and cook for 10 more minutes
4. Transfer the cutlets in coconut sauce to a bowl and sprinkle cumin powder before serving.

Hope you guys like the two recipes. Do try them and tell me how it worked.

Luv,
NithiShri