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45 min — 30 min prep, 15 min cooking.

Amritsari Aloo Tikki

Name: Amritsari Aloo Tikki
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 11 servings
Cuisine: Punjab Indian
Ingredients: 2tbsp Coriander Leaves; 250g Potato; 1cup Gram Flour; 100g Tamarind; 100g Chana Dal; salt; 2tbsp oil

Crispy shallow-fried potato patties stuffed with spiced dal. Served with tamarind and mint chutney.

Time 45 min · Serves 11 · 146 kcal · Amritsar, Punjab

Ingredients

Garnish

Coriander Leaves (optional) (garnish) — 2 tbsp (chopped)

Main

Potato — 250 g (chopped)
Gram Flour — 1 cup (ground)
Tamarind — 100 g (whole)
Chana Dal — 100 g (whole)
salt (optional) (whole)

Tempering

oil — 2 tbsp (whole)

Method

Boil the potatoes till soft, then peel and mash them well, keeping some texture.
Soak the chana dal for 2 hours, then pressure cook till soft and drain well.
Cook the tamarind in a little water till soft, then mash and strain to get a thick tamarind pulp for serving.
Mix the mashed potato, cooked chana dal and gram flour together with salt, and knead into a firm, bindable dough.
Divide the mixture into equal portions and shape each into a round, slightly flattened tikki.
Heat the oil on a tawa and shallow fry the tikkis on medium heat, pressing lightly, till both sides turn golden and crisp.
Plate the hot tikkis, drizzle the tamarind pulp generously on top.
Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Amritsari Aloo Tikki?: 146 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 45 min — 30 min prep, 15 min cooking.

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