Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Veg Burger & French Fries

Here comes the famous combo "Burger & Fries". The origination place of burger is not sure as per wiki, it may be either Germany or US. But in U.S, the burger is mostly served with french fries. So i'm posting this combo under American food.
When we were in US, while travelling, if we couldnt find any indian restaurant, then we have either cheese pizza or veg burger. That time, i was much hesitant to try any new dishes. So this were life saver for me sometimes.
I'm very much inspired from Chitra's Burger recipe, so far i tried this 3/4 times, it turns out super delicious very time.The original recipe suggest to deep fry the patties, but i just shallow fry them and i couldn't find any major difference(low calorie version right?). Ok. let see the recipe for this world famous combo.

Veg Burger

Preparation Time : 30 mins | Cooking Time : 30 mins | Makes : 4
Recipe Category: Curry | Recipe Cuisine: American

Inspiration - Chitra's Burger recipe

Original source - here

For Veg Burger

Ingredients

Burger Bun - 4

Potatoes - 2

Carrot -1

Onions - 1 (small, cut into small pieces)

Peas - 1/4 cup(i used dry ones, so soaked for 4 hrs before use)

Thick Flattened Rice/Aval/Poha - 1/4 cup

Oil - 1/2 tsp

All Purpose Flour /Maida - 1/4 cup

Bread crumb - 1/2 cup(approx)

Salt

Spices

Red Chili Flake - 1/2 tsp

Oregano & Basil - 1/2 tsp

Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp

Turmeric - A pinch

Dry Mango Powder - 1/4 tsp

To Serve

Mayonnaise - 1/4 cup

Tomato Ketchup - needed

Sliced Onions , Tomatoes, Lettuce,Cabbage - as per your need

Cheese Slice - 4 (optional, i didnt use)

Procedure

First soak the poha in water for 20 mins, cook the potatoes, peas & carrot in a pressure cooker. Then heat the pan with the oil.

Add onions and saute it , then add cooked peas , carrot and mashed potatoes. Mix it well.

Squeeze the water from poha and add into potato mixture and then add all the spices listed under "Spices" & Salt .

Mix it well until it forms single mass and then allow to cool and tightly wrapped as cylinder in cling wrap and refrigerate for 30 mins. Once you're ready to make the patties, take it from fridge and make thin batter with maida and water.

Make the patties into round shape as the size of the burger bun and dip it in maida batter and coat it with bread crumbs generously.

Heat the tava with oil and shallow fry the patties . Cook on medium flame until it turns golden brown on both side .

Now it's time to arrange the burger. Cut the burger bun and toast the inside of the bun . Apply mayonnaise on the lower part of the bun, arrange onions, cabbage and then patties.

On top of that arrange lettuce, tomato and add generous amount of ketchup and mayonnaise and close it with top layer of bun.

That's it, Tasty and healthy home made Veg Burger is ready. It tastes heavenly on each mouthful.

French Fries

Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 2
Recipe Category: Fries | Recipe Cuisine: American

For French Fries

Ingredients

Potatoes - 2 nos

Salt

Oil for frying

Procedure

First peel & cut the potatoes into thin strips. Wash it well to remove extra starch.

Spread it on kitchen towel to dry. Once it dried, heat oil in the deep pan, add the potato strips in batches and cook for 2 mins. Remove it on the plate (At this stage, the color of the potatoes doesnt get changed).

Once it cooled , again fry the potatoes until it become crispy and golden brown. Remove it on the plate and sprinkle some salt.

Tasty French fries is ready.

Notes:

Corn meal is used in the original recipe, i skip that, till the patties turns out crispy.
You can prepare the patties mixture a day before and refrigerate it until use.
I used home made veg mayonnaise.