Veg Chop

The veg chop or vegetable chop is a popular snack both on the street and in traditional Bengali homes. The recipe calls for many vegetables that are in general, good for health. It has all the goodness of fresh winter veggies.This is a very tasty fried item that can be served as an snack or as part of a meal to go with rice and daal. Veg chop with its signature beetroot-red filling. Though  my experimental chop is  not red filling but it is veg chop.

My main Ingredients for this recipe are Cauliflower, Carrot, Green peas and Amada. You guys already know the food values of the Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea), Carrot (Daucus carota) and Green Peas (Pisum sativum) but do know anything about "amada"? It's look like Aada or Ginger and the most interesting thing you will get the mango flavor form it. Scientific name of this vegetable is “Curcuma amada”. There are 90 calories in a 2 tbsp serving of Naturally Fresh Mango Ginger Vinaigrette. Calorie breakdown: 69% fat, 31% carbs, 0% protein.

Time required: Less than 30 minutes.

Ingredients:
● 1 large potato (boil) ● 1 cup julienne carrot (boil) ● 1 cup chopped cauliflower (boil) ● ½ cup green peas (boil) ● 1 big onion (chopped) ● 5 to 6 green chilli (chopped) ● 1 tbsp armada pest ● 2 cup breadcrumbs ● 1 tbsp kaju or cashew nuts (chopped) ● 1 tsp cumin seeds pd ● 1 tbsp cumin seeds pd (roasted) ● ½ tsp red chilli pd ● Pinch of black seeds ● 1 cup flour ● ½ cup gram flour ● 1 tbsp corn flour ● ½ tsp baking soda ● Sugar ● Salt ● Refined oil

Procedure:

Step 1: Heat some oil in a pan and add pinch of black seeds.

Step 2: Add onion, green chilli and kaju and fry for few min when the onion and kaju colors come nice golden.

Step 3: Add cauliflower, carrot , peas and some salt fry for 30 sec.

Step 4: Add cumin seeds pd, red chilli pd, amada pest and little bit of sugar. And mix together.

Step 5: At last add roasted pd of cumin seeds mix very well and keep aside for cooling.

Step 6: Take a bowl and mix flour,  gram flour, baking soda and salt in it.

Step 7: Add water little by little to make smooth batter.

Step 8: After cooling the mixture add boil potato and corn flour and mashed them very well.

Step 9: Now wash and dry your hands and rub them with little oil.

Step 10: Make them into a round (chop) shape and flatten them.

Step 11: Heat sufficient oil in a deep pan.

Step 12: Dip the each chop into the smooth batter and coat into breadcrumbs and then fry in medium flame until chop are golden-brown in color.

Step 13: Keep them paper towel to get rid of those excess unwanted fat.

Serve hot with ketchup and hot coffee.