Aloo Tikki
Aloo Tikki is a delicious, melt in mouth savoury snack made by roasting spiced mashed potato cakes bind with breadcrumbs. Aloo Tikki is a common street food which is loved to be reciprocated at home. How to make Aloo Tikki at home is explained in this recipe with step by step pictures for your easy reference.
Servings8 tikkies
Ingredients
- 2 and 1/2 potato medium sized (comes to 1.5 cups after mashing)
- 1/3 cup bread crumbs
- 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- 1/4 teaspoon chat masala powder
- 1/2 teaspoon jeera powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder
- 1/2 tablespoon coriander leaves finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- cooking oil to toast
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Cut each potato into 2 halves and pressure cook for 4 whistles or until soft. Peel off the skin and mash it well without any lumps.
- Add red chilli powder, garam masala powder, cumin powder, chat masala powder, lemon juice, coriander leaves and required salt to the mashed potatoes.
- Mix well to form a smooth dough. Pinch a lemon sized ball and roll it well, then flatten them into round patties as shown below.
- Roll the patties in breadcrumbs so that it coats well on all sides. Now finish the batter by repeating the process.
- I just made 6 tikkis for click sake and reserved the batter for later use.
- Heat dosa pan – drizzle oil, add the aloo tikkis and toast well on both sides till they turn golden brown and slightly crisp.
- Serve Aloo Tikki hot with sweet chutney or tomato sauce.
Notes
- You can add 1/2 tablespoon rice flour / cornflour if the dough becomes watery, but dont add more as the tikkis will become hard.
- Coating them with breadcrumbs then toasting gives a crispy outer layer and soft inside.
- You can even add 1/4 cup boiled peas along with potato.
- I used my potato masher to mash the potatoes, if you don’t have one then mash it well with a laddle.
- The dough should be tight enough to hold together, if the dough is watery / runny then your tikkis will break when you toast them.
- Alternatively you can deep fry them too. But if prefer to deep fry then add cornflour with the dough to make it stiff.
- If you are toasting, toast in low medium heat. Flip over the tikkis gently while toasting them in tawa.
- I used my cast iron dosa tawa to toast, you can even use nonstick dosa tawa.
- Replace chat masala powder with amchur powder whichever is available , use that.
- You can even stuff boiled channa dal / sprouts inside the tikkis for taste variation.
- You can even toast the tikkis in ghee.
Nutrition Facts
Aloo Tikki
Amount Per Serving (50 g)
Calories 72
Calories from Fat 4
% Daily Value*
Fat 0.4g1%
Saturated Fat 0.2g1%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.1g
Monounsaturated Fat 0.1g
Sodium 41mg2%
Potassium 297mg8%
Carbohydrates 15g5%
Fiber 2g8%
Sugar 1g1%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin A 79IU2%
Vitamin C 13mg16%
Calcium 18mg2%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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