Cutlets made with cooked mashed raw banana and spinach, great starter or snack.

Ingredients

1 no

Raw banana

½ no

Onion (finely chopped)

1 no

Green chili (finely chopped)

2 clove

Garlic (finely minced

½ inch

Ginger (finely minced)

10 nos

Spinach leaves(palak)

5 nos

Curry leaves (finely chopped)

3 stks

Coriander leaves (finely chopped)

¼ tsp

Turmeric powder

5 pinch

Red chili powder

¼ tsp

Salt (or to taste)

2 cup

Oil (for deep frying)

1 tsp

Oil (for sauteing)

Instructions

Wash, peel and cut the raw banana into big cubes. Cook them covered with water, pinch of turmeric

 and salt, until soft (takes 8 to 10 minutes) or pressure cook upto one whistle.  Wash and finely chop the spinach leaves and keep aside. Heat a tsp of oil in a pan and fry the onions, green chilies, ginger and garlic till translucent. Add in the chopped spinach and fry for few seconds and switch off. Now take the cooked banana cubes and mash well, add the sauteid mixture along with turmeric, chili powder, chopped curry leaves, coriander leaves and salt. Mix well until everything blends together and make a stiff dough. Roll them into equal size balls and flatten like little croquettes/vadai/cutlet. Depending on personal preference you can either shallow or deep fry. Serve hot with choice of sauce as a snack or even serve as a side 

Notes

This recipe yields about 12 to 13 (2″ diameter, 1/2″ thickeness) cutlets.

Another idea is to make the patties little bigger and sandwich between buns to make a Veggie Burger.