These vegetable nuggets are heavenly tasty with loaded cheese.Crisp And crunchy from outside and mouth melting from inside.
Ingredients:- ( Serves 16 )
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1/2 tsp Cumin / Zeera
- 1 tsp Garlic paste / Lasan
- 1 tsp Ginger paste / Adrakh
- 1 finely chopped Onion
- 1 tsp Chilli paste
- 1/4 cup shredded Carrot / Gajar
- 1/4 cup grated Cauliflower / Gobhi
- 1/4 cup grated Cabbage / Pata ghobi
- 1/4 cup finely chopped Capsicum / Shimla mirch
- 1/4 cup frozen or boiled peas / Matar
- 1/4 cup frozen or boiled Sweet corn / Makki
- Salt to taste / Namak
- 1/2 tsp Pepper / Kali or salad mirch
- 1 tsp Coriander powder / Dhaniya
- 1 tsp Chaat masala
- 1/4 cup pressure cooked Kidney beans / Rajma
- 1/4 cup pressure cooked White Chickpeas / Kabuli channa
- 100 gm Cottage cheese / Paneer
- 1/4 cup Cheddar cheese
- 1 tbsp Bread crumb
BATTER – Made twice
- 1/2 cup Refined flour / Maida
- 1/2 cup Corn flour
- 1 cup Water
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1/4 tsp Chilli flakes
COATING
- 1 cup crushed Corn flakes
OIL TO FRY
Method :-
- In hot Oil add Cumin and let it to crackle on low for couple of seconds.
- Drop in Onion.Saute over medium for a minute and then add Garlic-Ginger paste and Chilli paste.
- Continue sauting for a minute,then add all the veggies, spices and Salt.
- Sauté till veggies get tender.Noe add Kidney beans and Chickpeas.Mix and mash using spatula.
- Next add and mix Cottage cheese and Cheddar cheese .
- Put off the stove and let it cool down.
- Mix Bread crumb,spread over a plastic wrap or a cling film to about 1 inch thick.
- Wrap and freeze for an hour.
- Take out and cut in any shape or size.
- Make a batter using all the above listed ingredients.Dip the nugget and then coat it with crushed Corn flakes.
- Deep fry in hot Oil over medium heat till crisp golden brown.
- Serve hot with chutney or ketchup.
Tips:-
- Frozen Peas and Sweet corn are soft thus they are not required to be boiled.
- Black Pepper has a more strong flavour than white Pepper.
- Instead of using Potatoes for binding,we used Kidney beans and Chickpeas.
- If you don’t have Cheddar cheese add processed cheese.
- You can keep this veg mix in freezer for about a week and snack it when you want.
- Repeat step no 10 to get extra crisp nugget and a thick outer coating.