Vipul's Photo Blogs: Vegetarian, need protein, try Chilly Chunk

Vipul's Photo Blogs: Vegetarian, need protein, try Chilly Chunk: Feeling the urge to have Protein rich vegetarian food, spicy as you want it. Try this recipe of Chilly Chunks as snack. You can increase ...

Vegetarian, need protein, try Chilly Chunk

Feeling the urge to have Protein rich vegetarian food, spicy as you want it. Try this recipe of Chilly Chunks as snack.

You can increase or decrease the quantity of ingredients as per your taste and you can even change the ingredients as per your like.

Here we go......

Ingredients:

To Marinate

• Gram Flour (Besan) - 1 Tbsp
• Curd - 2 Tbsp
• Garam masala - 1/2 Tbsp
• Green Chilly Sauce - 1 Tbsp
• Tomato ketchup - 1 Tbsp
• Ginger, Garlic, Chilly paste - 2 Tbsp

• Nutri Nuggets - 100 Gms

Other Ingredients

• Onion - 4 medium size
• Capsicum - 2 medium size
• Green chilly - 2 half split
• Tomato - 2 medium size
• Tomato Ketchup - 1 Tbsp

Cooking:

Soak Nutri Nuggets in boiling water for 10 minutes. Add 1 Tbsp salt to it.

Squeeze the Nuggets after 10 minutes. 

Mix all the marination ingredients in a bowl and add squeezed Nuggets to it.

Keep it aside for half an hour.

Chop onion, tomato and capsicum length wise and half split the green chillies as shown in image.

Take a pan, pour 2 tbsp oil in it. Add marinated chunks to it and keep it on medium flame, stir constantly for 15 minutes.
Keep it aside.

Add chopped onion and capsicum in the same pan at high flame. Saute it for 5 minutes.

Add chopped tomatoes, green chillies and salt. Stir for 2 -3 minutes.

Add Nuggets to it and add tomato ketchup. Take it out from flame.

Chilly Chunk is ready to serve hot.

Relish the delicacy.

*My only contribution in this recipe are the images I clicked. Rest all is my loving wife Abha's effort.

Mom's recipe of Vegetable Chops

Human nature is to evolve and invent to make things better and better in every field. Same holds good in kitchen as well.
My mom, years ago,  somewhere read about vegetable chops, and over the period, modified its recipe to make it tastier and full of nutrition.
My wife further modified it to make it healthier by taking out oil part from it.

Here goes the recipe of this delicious and healthy dish.

Ingredients (Quantity: See image for quantity to make  10 pieces):

• Carrot
• Paneer
• Cauliflower
• Boiled Potato
• Green Chilly (You may want to avoid it if its for children)
• Green Peas
• Breadcrumbs
• Salt as per taste

Cooking

• Chop carrots and green chilly in small pieces
• Grate cauliflower
• Mash Paneer and boiled potatoes

Mix carrots, cauliflower, green chilly, paneer and boiled potatoes and sprinkle salt as per taste.

Make round balls of this mix. Try to keep size not too big.
Press the balls in the middle to shape it like a bowl. Fill green peas in the depressed part and close it.

Now, there are two ways to finish the cooking

Mom's way:
Heat up the oil (Tastes best in mustard oil, but you may choose any of your choice) and fry the raw balls till it gets golden brown from all sides. You may want to turn it in the frying container to uniformally cook it.

Wife's way:
Brush some oil over the raw balls (You may avoid oil completely as well) and Air Fry it in Air Fryer.

Enjoy it with green chutney and tomato ketchup, and obviously with Loved Ones.

Well, feedback is welcome to further improve on it.


Courtesy:

• My loving Mom Mrs Roopa Gupta to introduce her family to this delicious dish.
• My beloved wife Abha for presentation and cooking for the photo shoot.