Most nutritionists call fried foods horror foods. Although they look tempting with their greasy shiny exterior but in reality when they lurk around our plate they give us obscene amount of fat and calories. Fried foods destroy the good nutrients like vitamins and minerals of the food. One of the greatest risk of consuming fried food is inviting heart disease and high cholesterol. Fried foods can lead to malfunctioning of the human brain thus leading to strokes and Alzheimer's.
It is said cooking done with care is an act of love. Keeping that motto in mind last month we bought an air fryer. We were really impressed by the advertisement of this. I must admit I am very happy that now we can enjoy most of the fried goodies without frying them. I made these vegetable cutlets in the air fryer with just one teaspoon of oil. Other alternative to air frying is baking, which will be a healthy choice but it won't taste the same.
Here is the recipe for these vegetable cutlets. Hope you will relish them.
Ingredients:
1 sweet potato, 4 medium size carrots, 1/2 cup peas, 1 small potato boiled separately, 1 small onion grated, 1/4 cup ground oats, 1/2 tsp coriander powder, 1/2 tsp Garam masala(curry powder), 1/2 tsp dry mango powder, 1/4 tsp red pepper(optional), 1/4 tsp lemon pepper, salt to taste, 1 tsp cooking oil
Method:
Wash and peel off carrots and cut into an inch long pieces. Peel off sweet potato and cut into six or eight pieces. Boil in a covered pan or pressure cook carrots, sweet potato and peas till they are tender. Drain water and mash these vegetables with already boiled and peeled off potato. Add grated onion and spices. Mix it well. Put a drop of oil on your hands and form patties of any size or shape with the mixture.
Use a basting brush to oil these patties from both sides. Air fry them for 12 minutes on 180 degree c.
Enjoy these cutlets with green chutney(recipe in this blog) or ketchup.
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