Mutter dry fruit Kebab (green pea cutlet)

Mutter Dry Fruit Kebab (Green Peas Cutlets)

Time is for triple celebration as 6th March is Holi, a festival full of colours. 6 th March 2014 was the day which gave me an identity as food blogger so its my blog's first birthday. One more achievement is associated with it as today I posted my 100th blog post. So big three reasons to celebrate.

To celebrate these three good reasons I prepared a classy mutter kebabs filled with dry fruits cooked in pure ghee

Preparation Time : 15 min

Cooking Time : 10 min

Ingredients :

For Kebab Mixture :

• 11/2 Cup blanched and blend green peas
• 1 Cup boiled and mashed chana dal
• 1 Tablespoon oil
• 1 Tea spoon cumin seeds
• 1 Teaspoon chilly powder
• 1/2 Teaspoon cardamom powder
• 1/2 Teaspoon garam masala
• 1 Tablespoon bread crumbs
• 1 Tablespoon chopped coriander
• Salt according to taste

For Filling :

• 2 Tablespoon raisins
• 2 Tablespoon cashew-nuts
• 2 Tablespoon green pistachio 
• 1 Tablespoon chopped green chillies
• 1 Tablespoon chopped green coriander
• 1 Tablespoon ginger julienned

2 Tablespoon pure ghee for shallow frying 

Procedure :

• First of all blanch and blend peas to paste
• Boil chana dal and mash it to a coarsely grind paste and keep aside

• In a pan, take 1 tablespoon cooking oil, add cumin seed and boiled chana dal. Cook it for 4 to 5 min, let it be bit dry now then add green peas paste to this and cook it for 4 to 5 minutes

• Now add salt and all other spices and cook for 2 minute and transfer this in a bowl

• In a mixture add chopped coriander leaves and bread crumbs mix it well and form a smooth dough

• In another bowl add all the ingredients for filling (raisins, cashew-nuts, pistachio, green chillies, coriander, ginger)

• Now take a portion of peas mixture on your palms flat it, fill it with the filling mixture and roll it into patties. Repeat this step with rest of mixture and form 10 -12 patties

• In a pan add oil and shallow fry patties till golden brown.

• Mutter dry fruit kabab is ready serve it hot with mint chutney and onion rings......

Tips : If looking for healthy option you can use normal cooking oil but if want to give it a royal classy taste cook it with pure ghee