Bengali Vegetable Chop / Beetroot Croquette /Healthy snacks for toddler/Kolkata Street food-Vegetable Chop /Kolkata Veg Chop: Must Eat Festive Bites during Durga Puja 1
Pujo is almost here. In just a
couple of days, Bengalis across the
globe will be celebrating Durga Puja a five-day festival worshiping of Goddess
Durga and celebrates her win against the evil demon ‘Asur’. Durga Puja is all
about getting dressed in new puja look ,
‘adda’ and visiting Puja pandals across
the town with friends and family and
most importantly, gorging on splendid food…
In London too, I can feel Durga
puja. Today in the office all I could think about is coming home to open the suitcases
to bring out the new sarees that I got from Kolkata to wear during the puja.
Bringing out the cute little festive cloths that I got N and show them off to
her.
I didn’t still bring my
suitcase out, but decided instead to cook some festive food, some gorgeous festive
food from the streets Kolkata without which Puja is incomplete.
First of the series is
Vegetable chop!
Ingredients:
2 Beetroots
2 Carrots
2 Potatoes
1/2 tsp Chili Powder (optional)
1/2 tsp Cumin Powder
1 tsp Ginger Paste
1 cup Bread Crumbs
2 tbsp Roasted Peanuts (chopped)
2 tbsp grated coconut
1 teaspoon Bengali Bhaja Masala
1 Egg
Salt to taste
Oil to deep fry
Ingredient for Bhaja Masala: You can
store this spice mix for later use as well
1teaspoon cumin seed
1 teaspoon fennel seed
1 teaspoon coriander seed
2 Bay leaf
1inch cinnamon stick
2/3 cardamom
Method of making Bhaja Masala
·
Dry roast all the ingredient on frying pan
· Let them cool down a
bit
· Grind dry roasted in
blender or coffee grinder
·
Store in air tight container for long term use
Method for making the vegetable Chop:
·
Wash and Pill the vegetable
·
Boil all
the vegetables and let them cool, Smash the vegetables and add salt.
·
Add
ginger paste, cumin powder, chili powder, grated coconut, Bhaja Masala
·
Fry the
peanuts
·
Now turn
off the flame and add fried peanuts to the above mashed vegetable.
·
Make
oblong shaped chop out of this mixture.
Frying Method One: Toddler friendly healthy snack:
·
Heat
little oil in a frying pan
·
Beat an
egg
·
Take a
vegetable chop and dunk it in the beaten egg
·
Now fry
·
This
method takes very little oil hence very healthy. The taste is not like the chop
one might be used to eating. But the main taste remains the same.
Frying Method Two: Again a healthier option which
takes very little oil but somewhat taste the same:
·
Heat oil
in a deep bottom pan
·
Take a vegetable chop and coat with the bread
crumbs and place onto a plate
·
Now dunk
the bread crumb coated vegetable chop in beaten egg
·
Fry them
·
In this
method the bread crumb is somewhat washed by the egg hence takes less oil then
usual but still retains original taste. also it is healthier than the original option
Frying method three: The actual method used in
shops or the taste most of us are accustomed with
·
Beat the
egg
·
Now dip
each of the above-made balls in the beaten egg
·
Afterwards coat each ball with the bread
crumbs and place onto a plate
·
Repeat
the process for all the balls and then place them in the refrigerator for 1
hour or longer.
·
Heat the
oil in a pan and deep fry each ball till golden brown.
· Serve the
vegetable chop with some Kasundi ( Bengali Mustard sauce) and onion or vegetable chop and muri
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