Kolkata Style Vegetable Chop Recipe
A vegetarian Bengali Recipes recipe with carrot (gajjar), potato (aloo), beetroot. Ready in 1h, serves 4.
Curated byAnanya Chatterjee🇮🇳
Instructions
24 steps- 1
To begin making Kolkata Style Vegetable Chop Recipe, heat a kadai and roast the dry spices (fennel, cumin, cardamom, cinnamon, dry red chili, black peppercorn, kalonji), let them cool down and grind to powder
fennel seeds (saunf)(1/2 teaspoon)cumin seeds (jeera)(1/2 teaspoon)cardamom (elaichi) pods/seeds - crushed(2)inch cinnamon stick (dalchini)(1/2)whole black peppercorns(3)corn flour(4 tablespoon) - 2
Keep aside
- 3
Peel the vegetables, wash them well and cut into big chunks
- 4
Cook till the first whistle goes off, remove from heat
- 5
Wait till the pressure releases
- 6
Take out all the vegetables and keep in a colander to drain out all the excess water
- 7
Grate the cooked vegetables
- 8
In a non stick pan add some oil(1tbsp) and when the oil is hot reduce the heat and add grated ginger and the vegetables
ginger - grated(1 tablespoon)inch cinnamon stick (dalchini)(1/2) - 9
Add the powdered spices and crushed peanuts
raw peanuts (moongphali) - crushed(1 tablespoon)cardamom (elaichi) pods/seeds - crushed(2) - 10
Stir well
- 11
Add salt and sugar
salt - to tastesugar(1 teaspoon) - 12
Keep cooking for 5-6min
- 13
Switch off the heat
- 14
Let the mixture cool down
- 15
[Note: If you think your vegetable mixture has more moisture then cook for longer duration
- 16
To know whether it is done or not take a little vegetable mix in your hand and try to make a ball, if you can make a nice round ball without sticking the vegetables to your hand then the mix is perfectly done
inch cinnamon stick (dalchini)(1/2) - 17
]Make small balls with the mixture
- 18
The size and shape depends on individuals choice, I did a cylindrical shape
- 19
Make a thin batter by mixing water and corn flour
corn flour(4 tablespoon) - 20
Dip the vegetable balls in the batter and roll them in bread crumbs
whole wheat bread crumbs(1 cup) - 21
Repeat the process
- 22
So the vegetable balls coated twice with bread crumbs
whole wheat bread crumbs(1 cup) - 23
Deep fry the chops and drain on a kitchen towel
sunflower oil - to deep fry - 24
Serve Kolkata Style Vegetable Chop Recipe with Kasundi or Dhaniya Pudina Chutney Recipe (Green Chutney), Date and Tamarind Chutney Recipe | Khajur Imli Chutney and Slices of onion and cucumber, during evening
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Kolkata Style Vegetable Chop Recipe
A vegetarian Bengali Recipes recipe with carrot (gajjar), potato (aloo), beetroot. Ready in 1h, serves 4.
Curated byAnanya Chatterjee🇮🇳
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Directions
24 steps- 1
To begin making Kolkata Style Vegetable Chop Recipe, heat a kadai and roast the dry spices (fennel, cumin, cardamom, cinnamon, dry red chili, black peppercorn, kalonji), let them cool down and grind to powder
fennel seeds (saunf)(1/2 teaspoon)cumin seeds (jeera)(1/2 teaspoon)cardamom (elaichi) pods/seeds - crushed(2)inch cinnamon stick (dalchini)(1/2)whole black peppercorns(3)corn flour(4 tablespoon) - 2
Keep aside
- 3
Peel the vegetables, wash them well and cut into big chunks
- 4
Cook till the first whistle goes off, remove from heat
- 5
Wait till the pressure releases
- 6
Take out all the vegetables and keep in a colander to drain out all the excess water
- 7
Grate the cooked vegetables
- 8
In a non stick pan add some oil(1tbsp) and when the oil is hot reduce the heat and add grated ginger and the vegetables
ginger - grated(1 tablespoon)inch cinnamon stick (dalchini)(1/2) - 9
Add the powdered spices and crushed peanuts
raw peanuts (moongphali) - crushed(1 tablespoon)cardamom (elaichi) pods/seeds - crushed(2) - 10
Stir well
- 11
Add salt and sugar
salt - to tastesugar(1 teaspoon) - 12
Keep cooking for 5-6min
- 13
Switch off the heat
- 14
Let the mixture cool down
- 15
[Note: If you think your vegetable mixture has more moisture then cook for longer duration
- 16
To know whether it is done or not take a little vegetable mix in your hand and try to make a ball, if you can make a nice round ball without sticking the vegetables to your hand then the mix is perfectly done
inch cinnamon stick (dalchini)(1/2) - 17
]Make small balls with the mixture
- 18
The size and shape depends on individuals choice, I did a cylindrical shape
- 19
Make a thin batter by mixing water and corn flour
corn flour(4 tablespoon) - 20
Dip the vegetable balls in the batter and roll them in bread crumbs
whole wheat bread crumbs(1 cup) - 21
Repeat the process
- 22
So the vegetable balls coated twice with bread crumbs
whole wheat bread crumbs(1 cup) - 23
Deep fry the chops and drain on a kitchen towel
sunflower oil - to deep fry - 24
Serve Kolkata Style Vegetable Chop Recipe with Kasundi or Dhaniya Pudina Chutney Recipe (Green Chutney), Date and Tamarind Chutney Recipe | Khajur Imli Chutney and Slices of onion and cucumber, during evening
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