Today I tried an innovative and healthy recipe using plantains or raw banana called plantain cutlets or raw banana cutlet. They are also known as kacche kele ki tikki in India. Kacche kele means raw banana and tikki means cutlet. This under 30-minute healthy snack recipe is a must try.
Normally cutlets are made up of potato, but I replaced the potato filling with a spicy and tangy plantain filling. I have added red chili powder and green chilies to make it spicy and tamarind paste for making it tangy.
These raw banana tikki taste even better than the raw banana subzi and can be served either at lunch as a side or during snacks time. If you have a fussy eater who normally does not eat raw banana stir fry, you can make these plantain cutlets and ensure that he/she gets proper nutrition.
Can we have these cutlets with raw banana while fasting?
If you want to make these kacche kele ki tikki for fast, just don’t add onion and garlic. Rest of the ingredients can be used as it is.
Other raw banana recipes:
Ingredients that go in the recipe of raw banana cutlet:
- Plantain: Fresh plantain or green raw banana is the main ingredient used in making this healthy snack.
- Onion: Finely chopped red onion is added to the mashed raw banana.
- Spices: Spices like red chili powder, turmeric powder and cumin seeds are used in this recipe. Marble sized ball of tamarind or tamarind paste is also added to make tangy cutlets. All these ingredients can be found in any Asian or Indian grocery store.
- Chili: Finely chopped green chili is added in this recipe. It is optional can be added if you want more heat in the cutlets.
- Garlic: Minced garlic is added in this tikki recipe for adding flavour. Along with this, a little amount of ginger paste and garlic paste is also added in the recipe.
For coating the cutlets:
We can use rava or semolina to coat the cutlets. If rava is not available, breadcrumbs can be used.
Oil: Oil is used for shallow frying the cutlets. You can use any type of oil like rice bran oil or coconut oil or vegetable oil.
Let us see how to make raw banana tikki:
First let us make tamarind paste:
- Soak tamarind in 4 tablespoon warm water for 20 minutes.
- Smash it and make a paste. This gives 2 tablespoon tamarind paste.
- You can also buy readymade tamarind paste from a store and use it in this recipe. Keep it aside.
Let us make the plantain cutlets:
- Wash and cut the raw banana into 2 pieces.
- You can boil or steam or pressure cook it.
- After cooling, peel the banana pieces.
- Finely chop and mash the banana with your hands or a masher.
- Add finely chopped onion, finely chopped coriander leaves, finely chopped green chili, cumin seeds, turmeric powder, red chili powder and salt.
- Mix everything nicely.
- Add tamarind paste, finely chopped garlic and ginger and garlic paste. Mix well.
- Shape into round shaped cutlets with thickness 1 cm. Keep all the cutlets aside on a plate.
- Mix the rava/semolina/breadcrumbs and salt in a plate. Gently roll the cutlets into the rava/semolina/breadcrumbs and coat it nicely.
- Grease the tava/frying pan with oil.
- Once it heats, place the prepared cutlets on the frying pan and shallow fry the cutlets in oil.
- Flip to the other side after 10 minutes and fry for another 10 minutes.
Serve with tomato sauce or chutney of your choice. You can serve these raw banana cutlets during tea time as snacks or make it as a side and have it during lunch or dinner.
Plantain Cutlets | Raw Banana Cutlet
Ingredients
- 1 medium sized Plantain
- 3 tablespoon finely chopped onion/1 medium sized onion
- 4 tablespoon finely chopped coriander
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped green chili
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 2 teaspoon chili powder
- 4 garlic pods
- 1 tablespoon ginger-garlic paste
- 1 marble sized ball of tamarind/2 tablespoon tamarind paste
- 2 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
For Frying the cutlets:
- 1/2 cup rava/semolina
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2-3 tablespoon Fortune Rice Bran Oil
Instructions
Let us see how to make raw banana tikki.
First let us make tamarind paste:
- Soak tamarind in 4 tablespoon warm water for 20 minutes.
- Smash it and make paste. This gives 2 tablespoon tamarind paste.
- You can also buy readymade tamarind paste from a store and use it in this recipe. Keep it aside.
Let us make the plantain cutlets:
- Wash and cut the raw banana into 2 pieces.
- You can boil or steam or pressure cook it.
- After cooling, peel the banana pieces.
- Finely chop and mash the banana with your hands or a masher.
- Add finely chopped onion, finely chopped coriander leaves, finely chopped green chilli, cumin seeds, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and salt.
- Mix everything nicely.
- Add tamarind paste, finely chopped garlic and ginger and garlic paste. Mix well.
- Shape into round shaped cutlets with thickness 1 cm. Keep all the cutlets aside on a plate.
- Mix the rava/semolina/breadcrumbs and salt in a plate. Gently roll the cutlets into the rava/semolina/breadcrumbs and coat it nicely.
- Grease the tava/frying pan with oil.
- Once it heats, place the prepared cutlets on the frying pan and shallow fry the cutlets in oil.
- Flip to the other side after 10 minutes and fry for another 10 minutes.
- Serve with tomato sauce or chutney of your choice.
Pin this image on Pinterest.
Note: The post was originally published on 16th Mar 2015 and is re-published.
Leave a Reply