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Healthy paneer cutlets or cottage cheese croquettes with sweet potatoes and spinach- Being Rubitah- family recipes
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Healthy paneer cutlet recipe | cottage cheese croquettes with sweet potato and spinach

Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Course: Appetizer, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine: Indian, street food
Keyword: healthy vegetarian snack, indian cutlet recipe, paneer recipes, sweet potato recipe
Servings: 20 cutlets
Calories: 58.3kcal

Ingredients

  • 1.5 cups paneer or cottage cheese grated
  • 2 medium sweet potatoes boiled and mashed
  • 1 medium onion finely chopped
  • 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
  • 4 tbsp spinach leaves finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp coriander leaves finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp red chilli powder
  • 1 tsp cumin powder
  • 1 tsp chaat powder
  • 1 tsp pepper powder (optional)
  • salt (as required)
  • 1/2 cup gram flour or as required
  • 1 cup Rava or Semolina as required for coating
  • oil for shallow fry as required

Instructions

  • Take a large bowl and add all the ingredients except the masala powders and gram flour- one by one
    Add all ingredients-Healthy paneer cutlets or cottage cheese croquettes with sweet potatoes and spinach- Being Rubitah- family recipes
  • Mix well till they are nicely combined
    Mix well-Healthy paneer cutlets or cottage cheese croquettes with sweet potatoes and spinach- Being Rubitah- family recipes
  • Now leave it closed for about 15 minutes. You will see that the mix has released little water because of the onions and leaves.
  • Remove this water and use it for your other dishes
  • What you will now have is a thicker mash of all the ingredients. Add all the masalas and incorporate well into this mash.
    Add gram flour little by little-Healthy paneer cutlets or cottage cheese croquettes with sweet potatoes and spinach- Being Rubitah- family recipes
  • Now add the besan or gram flour, little by little into this mix, till you're able to hold it together into a big dough.
    Form a dough-Healthy paneer cutlets or cottage cheese croquettes with sweet potatoes and spinach- Being Rubitah- family recipes
  • Grease your hand with oil and pinch a ball of this mash to form a cutlet
    Make cutlets-Healthy paneer tikki or cutlet or cottage cheese croquettes with sweet potatoes and spinach- Being Rubitah- family recipes
  • Heat oil in a pan. Once hot, take the cutlet, dip it in a wide bowl of suji or semolina flour and place it carefully in the oil to shallow fry. Repeat for all the cutlets.
    Shallow fry- Healthy paneer tikki or cutlet or cottage cheese croquettes with sweet potatoes and spinach- Being Rubitah- family recipes
  • Fry till they're golden brown on both sides
  • Serve with sauce or mint-coriander chutney or as a side dish to your main course
    Serve with sauce or chutney- Healthy paneer tikki or cutlet or cottage cheese croquettes with sweet potatoes and spinach- Being Rubitah- family recipes

Notes

  • You may add any seasonal greens of your choice instead of spinach.
  • If this seems spicy for you, just remove the masalas and add only pepper powder to this recipe.
  • You may have to leave the mix a little longer to release the water in the ingredients.
  • Adding corn flour or rice flour will make this cutlet even crispier.
  • You may bake these croquettes instead of frying them.