These awesome fried potato balls are crispy on the outside and soft within.
By Anamika Sharma
I have kept this recipe very simple and easy to prepare. All you need is Swang ke Chawal – Vrat ke Chawal with some boiled potatoes for binding and a few dry spices, and it’s done!
Swang Ke Chawal Ki Tikki – Fried Potato Balls
- Total Time: 40 mins
- Yield: 2
Description
These awesome fried potato balls are crispy on the outside and soft within.
Ingredients
- – Swang ke chawal (barnyard millet) – 1 cup
- – Boiled Potatoes – 2
- – Salt as per taste
- – Cumin Seeds Powder -1/2 teaspoon
- – Green Chillies – 1 Chopped (optional)
- – Crushed Peanuts -1/4 cup (optional)
- – Chopped Coriander – a little
- – Water -1 1/2 cups or little less
Instructions
- Soak swang ke chawal in water for about an hour.
- Take a pan, add the chawal and 11/2 cups of water and allow cooking on low flame half covered.
- When the water is all absorbed into the chawal and you see that the rice are cooked, switch off the flame.
- Let it cool for some time.
- Now add mashed boiled potatoes to the cooked chawal along with all the spices, green chillies and chopped coriander leaves and mix well to form tikki dough.
- Heat oil in a kadai for deep frying.
- Divide the tikki mixture in small portions and make round balls of these portions and flatten it a little.
- Fry till golden brown in colour on medium to high flame. Do not turn the tikki?s immediately, let them fry from one side a little and then gently turn them and fry till both the sides are golden brown in colour.
- Serve these hot with Aloo Sabzi or Aloo Raita.
- Enjoy while you fast!!!
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Category: Side
