Vegetable cutlet is a spiced mixture of assorted vegetables like potatoes, beans, carrots and beans shaped into patties and fried.
These versatile vegetable balls should not be confused with ‘Tikki’. Tikki’s have a filling of either lentils, peas or paneer and covered in thick layer of starchy potato and served with mint and tamarind chutney.
Vegetable cutlets had a permanent place on my birthday menu when I was little. Usually the menu didn’t change from year to year. It used to chola bhatura, Indian burger (yup we had homemade Indian burger), pao bhaji, samosa and cutlets. In the recent years, I have noticed that vegetable cutlet is losing its popularity and I feel this dish is too good to be forgotten.
It is one of the dishes which can be eaten in variety of ways depending on how hungry you are – stuffed inside a slice of bread or bread roll or just on its own with green chutney and /or ketchup.
Vegetable cutlets is one those dishes which you can experiment with and every household will have their recipe for a good cutlet. This one is my version of how to make a mixed vegetable cutlet.
