Tofu and Chickpea Patty Recipe (Cutlets)
Total Time: 65 minutes
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients:
- coriander (dhania)
- green chillies
- ginger
- cumin powder (jeera)
- salt
- chaat masala powder
- virgin olive oil
- onion
- tofu
- wheat bread crumbs
- kala chana (brown chickpeas)
Instructions:
- To begin making the Chickpea & Tofu Patties Recipe, we first have to cook the chickpeas until soft
- Note, that the chickpeas have to be soaked in water for atleast 6 hours before you can cook them
- Click to see the video recipe of how to cook chickpeas in a pressure cooker
- Once the chicpeas are cooked, drain any water from the cooked peas and use them in your soups, vegetable stock or any other recipe that would need water
- To make the patties we need to use the cooked chickpeas that has all the water drained out
- Add the chickpeas to a large mixing bowl, mash it with a potato masher or a fork
- Once coarsely mashed, in the remaining ingredients and stir well to combined
- You your fingers to mix the patty
- Divide the chickpea patty mixture into 10 to 12 equal portions and shape them into oval or round balls
- Flaten them slightly in the palm of your hand
- Oiling your fingers makes it easier to shape the patties
- Our next step is to cook the patties; preheat a skillet and place the patties on the preheated skillet
- Drizzle olive oil over each of the patties and cook them on low to medium heat
- Flip them over a couple of times, so they get roasted to get golden brown color on all sides
- Serve the Chickpea and Tofu Patties along with coriander chutney as an appetizer for your parties or even pack them into a kids lunch box or make burgers out of these patties