Halwai July 1, 2025

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kg – Potatoes
• 200 g – Beans
• 100 g – Carrots
• 150 g – Capsicum
• 100 g – Cabbage
• 5 pieces of bread
• 2-3 tsp – crushed Green chillies
• 1 tsp ajinomoto
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying.

Method:

  1. Boil, peel and mash potatoes. Add salt.
  2. Chop carrots and beans into very fine pieces.
  3. Chop cabbage very finely. Add salt and keep aside for 5-10 minutes.
  4. Squeeze out the excess water.
  5. Chop capsicum finely.
  6. Crumble the bread pieces.
  7. Heat 1 tbsp oil. Add the carrots and beans. Stir fry.
  8. Then add the cabbage and the capsicum.
  9. Add 1 tsp ajinomoto, crushed green chillies and salt to taste.
  10. Stir fry and remove from heat. Cool.
  11. To the mashed potato, add the cooled vegetable mixture and crumbled bread pieces. Mix well.
  12. Make lemon-sized balls.
  13. Shape them like a 2-3 inch stick.
  14. Fry in hot oil.
  15. Drain the excess oil with a newspaper.
  16. Serve hot with tomato/chilli sauce.

Recipe courtesy of Meenal