Raw Banana Cutlets

What to do with 2 raw bananas lying in your fridge ? simple.... make some yummy cutlets. As my daughter's holidays are continuing I have to of give her something good to eat. In her words yummy snacks. Initially I wanted to make some bhajji's but I already made them last week, so this was what I came up with. She wanted to have all different kinds of shapes of cutlet ranging from gingerbread man to birdies, but I somehow convinced her to settle with heart shaped ones.

Ingredients:

Raw Bananas - 2

Medium sized Potatoes - 2

Bread - 2 slices

Green chillies - 2 (finely chopped)

Coriander leaves - few sprigs (finely chopped)

Salt, Red chilli powder - to taste

Amchoor - 1 tsp

Oil - to fry

Procedure:

• Cut the potatoes length wise in two and pressure cook them till done.
• Cut the raw bananas in half and pressure cook them for 1 whistle.
• Peel the skin of boiled potatoes and mash them.
• Peel the skin of bananas and grate them.
• Soak the bread in little water for few seconds and squeeze them. Keep aside.
• Mix together potatoes, bananas, bread, green chillies, coriander leaves, salt, red chilli powder and amchoor. Knead everything to a nice dough.
• Take small ball of dough and shape as desired.
• Fry 2-3 at a time in hot oil in medium heat until golden brown.
• Serve hot with green chutney or ketchup.

Minty Pesarattu with Ginger Chutney

I love pesarattu ... crispy and thin moong daal dosas. Pesarattu is very light on the stomach and is an ideal breakfast recipe. I twisted this traditional Andhra recipe by adding mint leaves. Serve this with ginger and jaggery chutney for a tongue tickling experience.

For the Pesarattu-

Ingredients:

Whole green moong daal - 1 cup

Mint leaves - 1/4 cup (finely chopped)

Ginger - 1 inch piece

Green chillies - 3 to 4 (can add even more but 3 was enough for us)

Salt - to taste

Water to grind.

Oil - to make dosa

Procedure:

• Wash and soak the daal for at least 4-5 hrs. After that drain and rinse with water and keep aside.
• Grind daal , mint leaves, ginger and chillies together by adding water little by little. Don't make the batter very thin.
• Mix in salt and make thin and crisp dosas using little oil.

For the ginger and jaggery chutney -

Ingredients:

Ginger - 2 tbsp ( finely chopped)

Dry red chillies- 3 nos.

Urad daal - 1 tbsp

Jaggery- 1 tbsp (powdered)

Tamarind- little

Oil - 2 tsp

Salt - to taste

Procedure:

• Heat oil and add urad daal, once it turns light golden add the chillies and saute for a minute.
• Then add in chopped ginger pieces and fry for 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
• After this mixture cools, grind in the mixie along with jaggery, tamarind and salt.

Serve this chutney with crispy pesarattu's.

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