Recipe for Potato Cutlet - How to Make Potato Cutlet

People who want to about how to Make Aloo Cutlet at Home would be relieved to know that not just the method of preparation of the Recipe of Aloo Cutlet is very easy to undertake at home, but even the other ingredients used are easily available at a very low cost in the neighborhood. The easy Potato Cutlet Recipe described below can be prepared at no time, for serving as a snack to unexpected guests, who may arrive at your home at odd hours.

Recipe for Potato Cutlet/ Recipe for Aloo Cutlet

Ingredients Used in Potato Cutlet Recipe

1) Potatoes (Aloo) – 3 of large size

2) Onion – 1 of large size

3) Ginger – ½ inch long

4) Cumin Seeds – 1/4^th teaspoon

5) Edible Oil – 1 teaspoon for frying the Aloo & 4 tablespoons for frying the final Cutlet.

6) Water – 4 tablespoons

7) Coriander powder – 1 teaspoon

8) Cumin powder – ½ teaspoon

9) Chilli – 1/4^th teaspoon

10) Salt – 1/4^th teaspoon (or as per requirement)

11) Besan ( Gram Flour) – 1 tablespoon

12) Bread Crumbs – 1 cup

13) Cornflour – 2 tablespoons

14) Garam Masala Powder - ½ teaspoon

15) Amchur (Dry Mango) Powder – 1/4^th teaspoon

16) Chopped Coriander leaves – 20 grams

How to Make Potato Cutlet/How to Make Aloo Cutlet

• Wash the potatoes nicely in free water and then prick them on all sides by a fork repeatedly. This later helps in the proper boiling of the potatoes.
• Next, add 3 cups of normal water in a cooker and put the potatoes in it. Later close the lid of the cooker and put it on a medium flamed burner and let it boil. Wait till 5 to 6 whistles are emitted from the pressure cooker and then switch off the burner and allow the cooker to cool at room temperature.
• Once the cooker cools down, open the lid of the cooker and transfer the now boiled potatoes to a plate and let it cool. Once it becomes cool then peel the potatoes and mash them nicely. Add Coriander powder, Cumin powder, Chilli powder, Salt, Besan, Amchur powder all together to the potatoes and mash the contents and mix them nicely.
• Now grate very finely the Ginger piece and keep it aside. Grate Onion and then squeeze it by hand, so that the water content coming out is stored in another glass; and the pulp/residue is collected separately for further use.
• Now put a non-stick pan/Karahi on a low medium flame burner. Add 1 teaspoon oil in it. When it gets warm then add Cumin seeds in it and stir a little bit. When the color of Cumin seeds starts changing then add grated onion & grated ginger (mentioned previously) to it and stir the contents constantly for 1 minute.
• Next, the previously mentioned mashed Aloo (Potato) mixture is added to the contents on the Karahi/non-stick pan and the mixture stirred. Mix all the components nicely and fry for 2 minutes until the preparation gets a little hard.

• Add Garam Masala powder to the contents and mix it nicely with Aloo (Potato) mixture and lastly sprinkle chopped Coriander to it and switch off the burner at once. Mix the components of the whole preparation uniformly by a ladle, so that no lumps remain and let the preparation cool down.
• When it becomes cool then the Aloo mixture prepared previously is divided into many smaller parts (ideally resembling the size of big lemons). Make them round in shape and then press them a little bit from above to give a  flattened appearance.  
• Add 3 to 4 tablespoons of oil in a non- stick pan/karahi and put it on a low medium flame burner and allow it to get warm.
• Make a thin batter by mixing Cornflour (in the amount mentioned previously) to the mixture of, onion juice extracted earlier plus normal water( 4 tablespoons).  Next dip the flat Aloo balls prepared earlier in this batter and follow this step, by rolling them in bread crumbs.

• Next fry them in hot oil, till they achieve a golden-brown color from all sides.

• Later once they are properly fried, they are taken out from the frying pan and transferred to a plate, in which they can be served to your guests along with Tomato sauce or onion slices. This completes our Recipe of Potato Cutlet; which we hope you can easily prepare in your own home.

People sometime get confused between Potato Cutlet and Aloo Tikki. There is difference between both the recipes. Here is the Recipe of Aloo Tikki