Aloo tikki
(Potato patties - stuffed)
Aloo Tikki is one of the most popular street foods all over North India. On the side of the street stalls they are shallow fried on a large griddle and pushed to the edges to keep them warm and crispy. The vendors literally crowd the streets selling them.
Aloo means potato and tikki means patties. Aloo tikki is made of boiled mashed potatoes and spices and shallow fried. They are crispy from outside and soft from inside. Aloo tikki is served hot along with plain yogurt, coriander chutney, tamarind chutney and some spices sprinkle over them. Sometimes they are accompanied with cholas.
Aloo tikki can be customized according to the individual taste. Aloo ki tikki can be made in various ways. You can stuff them with green peas, moong dal or even with paneer. In this recipe tikkis are stuffed with green peas and shallow fried.
Aloo means potato and tikki means patties. Aloo tikki is made of boiled mashed potatoes and spices and shallow fried. They are crispy from outside and soft from inside. Aloo tikki is served hot along with plain yogurt, coriander chutney, tamarind chutney and some spices sprinkle over them. Sometimes they are accompanied with cholas.
Aloo tikki can be customized according to the individual taste. Aloo ki tikki can be made in various ways. You can stuff them with green peas, moong dal or even with paneer. In this recipe tikkis are stuffed with green peas and shallow fried.
Ingredients:
4 Medium size potatoes
1 Teaspoon salt or to your taste
1 Teaspoon red chili powder or to your taste
Vegetable oil for frying Aloo tikki's
Ingredients for stuffing:
2 Cups of frozen or fresh shelled green peas
1 Tablespoon of fresh grated ginger
1 Medium green chili –fine chopped
½ Teaspoon of salt or to your taste
1 Teaspoon cumin seeds
1 Pinch of asafetida (Hing) or to your taste
1 Teaspoon of mango powder (amchoor)
1 Tablespoon of vegetable oil
2 Tablespoons fine chopped coriander leaves
4 Medium size potatoes
1 Teaspoon salt or to your taste
1 Teaspoon red chili powder or to your taste
Vegetable oil for frying Aloo tikki's
Ingredients for stuffing:
2 Cups of frozen or fresh shelled green peas
1 Tablespoon of fresh grated ginger
1 Medium green chili –fine chopped
½ Teaspoon of salt or to your taste
1 Teaspoon cumin seeds
1 Pinch of asafetida (Hing) or to your taste
1 Teaspoon of mango powder (amchoor)
1 Tablespoon of vegetable oil
2 Tablespoons fine chopped coriander leaves
Potatoes
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Green Peas
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Ingredients for making the tikki chat:
Plain yogurt- well beaten
Chat masala
Red chili powder
Salt to your taste
Imli chutney (Tamarind chutney)
Green dhania chutney (Coriander chutney)
Roasted jeera powder (Roasted jeera powder)
(Roasted cumin seed powder)
Plain yogurt- well beaten
Chat masala
Red chili powder
Salt to your taste
Imli chutney (Tamarind chutney)
Green dhania chutney (Coriander chutney)
Roasted jeera powder (Roasted jeera powder)
(Roasted cumin seed powder)
Directions for cooking the stuffing:
1. In a pan on medium heat add 1 tablespoon oil, cumin seeds and asafetida, and
fry them for 2 to 3 minutes or until the cumin seeds become brown
1. In a pan on medium heat add 1 tablespoon oil, cumin seeds and asafetida, and
fry them for 2 to 3 minutes or until the cumin seeds become brown
In a pan add Cumin seeds & asafetida & fry
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Cumin seeds & asafetida are fried
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2. Add green peas.
3. Add salt and mix
4. Cover the pan and let them cook for 15 to 20 minutes or until green peas
become little tender, stirring periodically.
3. Add salt and mix
4. Cover the pan and let them cook for 15 to 20 minutes or until green peas
become little tender, stirring periodically.
Add green peas
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Add salt
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Mix Green peas well
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Cover the pan and cook
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5. Add grated ginger and green chilies and mix with green peas. Cover the pan
and cook until all the moisture evaporates and green peas become tender.
and cook until all the moisture evaporates and green peas become tender.
Add ginger and green chilies
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Mix ginger & chilies well with green peas
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6. Sprinkle mango powder and cook for few minutes, while frequently keep
turning the green peas around. Turn the stove off
turning the green peas around. Turn the stove off
Cover the pan and cook
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Sprinkle Mango powder (Amchoor) & mix
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7. Sprinkle chopped coriander leaves and mix and cook a little.Turn the stove off.
Add chopped coriander leaves &mix
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Green peas are cooked
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8. Transfer the green peas into a bowl and with a fork or cooking spoons mash
them a little. Ensure that green pea stuffing is not watery. Keep it aside.
them a little. Ensure that green pea stuffing is not watery. Keep it aside.
Cooked Green peas
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Mash green peas
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Directions for making the tikkies:
1. Add potato in a pressure cooker or a in a pot, add water. Close the pressure
cooker and boil them.
1. Add potato in a pressure cooker or a in a pot, add water. Close the pressure
cooker and boil them.
Add potatoes in a pressure cooker
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Close the Pressure cooker
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2. Open the cooker and check boiled potatoes by inserting a knife or fork in the center, it should go in easily all the way to the center without any efforts, it means the Potatoes are done.
Open the cooker & check potatoes
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Pour the water out & let the Potatoes cool down
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3. Once potatoes cool down peel the skin out.
4. With a potato shredder shred boiled potato. You could also mash the potatoes
with a fork or potato masher, but by shredding potatoes come out smooth
without any small pieces.
4. With a potato shredder shred boiled potato. You could also mash the potatoes
with a fork or potato masher, but by shredding potatoes come out smooth
without any small pieces.
Peeled Potatoes
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Shred potatoes
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5. Add salt and red chili powder in the potato mash and mix it well. If you do not
like spicy potatoes you can skip adding red chili powder.
like spicy potatoes you can skip adding red chili powder.
Shredded potatoes
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Add Red chili powder & salt
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6. Mix and knead the mashed potatoes like a dough, if it feels sticky then grease your hand and mix with red chili powder and salt well. If you like to add more seasoning to your taste then add now and mix.
Mix salt and pepper well with potatoes
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Aloo Tikki potato mix
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7. Now wash and dry your hands and rub them with little oil.
8. Take some potato mixture in your hand.
8. Take some potato mixture in your hand.
Grease your hand
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Take some potato mixture
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9. Roll the potato mixture and roll like a ball.
Roll the potato dough like a ball
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Potato dough is rolled
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10. Gently flatten the ball to make small flat round.
Press the ball to flatten
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Potato ball is flattened
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11. With a spoon take some stuffing and place it in the center of potato round.
12. Fold the edges together so that stuffing does not come out. Now gently roll
and flatten it into a patty. Repeat until you make all the patties.
12. Fold the edges together so that stuffing does not come out. Now gently roll
and flatten it into a patty. Repeat until you make all the patties.
Place some green peas in potato round
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Fold the edges together
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Flatten the stuffed ball & make a patty
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Stuffed potato patties
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13. Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a pan over medium heat and grease it.
Heat a pan
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Grease the pan
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14. Place few stuffed potato patties in the pan, depending on the size of the pan,
turn the heat down to medium low and shallow fry them in oil.
15. Let the patties fried for 2 minutes then with the spatula turn them to other side
turn the heat down to medium low and shallow fry them in oil.
15. Let the patties fried for 2 minutes then with the spatula turn them to other side
Place few patties on the pan
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Turn the patties to other side
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16. Pour oil around the patties so that they become crispy.
17. Let the patties fried for 2 minutes then with the spatula turn them to other
side and fry them for 2 minutes then flip them back and fry. For 8 to 10
minutes keep flipping the patties around after every 2 minutes, so that they
get fry evenly from both sides.
17. Let the patties fried for 2 minutes then with the spatula turn them to other
side and fry them for 2 minutes then flip them back and fry. For 8 to 10
minutes keep flipping the patties around after every 2 minutes, so that they
get fry evenly from both sides.
Pour oil around the patties
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Turn the patties back to other side
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18. Once patties become crispy and golden brown from both the sides take them
out from the frying pan into a plate.
out from the frying pan into a plate.
Aloo Tikki’s are fried
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Aloo Tikki
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13. If you wish to make the inside of patty crispy then with the knife cut the
patties in half and fry.
patties in half and fry.
Split patties and fry them to make crispy
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Split fried potato patties
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Directions to prepare Tikki Chaat:
In North India Aloo tikki is eaten with so many different ways. It can be prepared to suite your taste. Some people eat this with coriander chutney or tamarind chutney or with ketchup. Here is the most popular recipe to serve the potato tikki.
Following ingredients needed to prepare Aloo Tikki Chaat:
In North India Aloo tikki is eaten with so many different ways. It can be prepared to suite your taste. Some people eat this with coriander chutney or tamarind chutney or with ketchup. Here is the most popular recipe to serve the potato tikki.
Following ingredients needed to prepare Aloo Tikki Chaat:
Yogurt
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Green chutney
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Imli Chutney
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Red chili powder
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Roasted cumin powder
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Chat masala
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1. In a bowl add yogurt and beat it with the spoon until it become smooth. Add
salt to your taste and mix it. If the yogurt is thick then add little water, but do
not make it watery.
2. Place 2 to 3 tikkies in a plate.
3. With the spoon pour about 2 tablespoons full of yogurt, 1 tablespoon of
Coriander chutney and 1 tablespoon of tamarind chutney.(or add chutney’s
according to your taste)
4. Sprinkle salt, chaat masala, roasted jeera powder and red chili powder
according to your taste.
5. Serve Aloo tikki hot.
salt to your taste and mix it. If the yogurt is thick then add little water, but do
not make it watery.
2. Place 2 to 3 tikkies in a plate.
3. With the spoon pour about 2 tablespoons full of yogurt, 1 tablespoon of
Coriander chutney and 1 tablespoon of tamarind chutney.(or add chutney’s
according to your taste)
4. Sprinkle salt, chaat masala, roasted jeera powder and red chili powder
according to your taste.
5. Serve Aloo tikki hot.
Take few Tikki’s in a plate
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Add yogurt, chutney’s & preferred spices
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Tips:
1. In parties serve tikkis buffet style so that guest makes them to their taste.
2. Peeling the potatoes after they cool down, that will make them sickly which
helps to stuff and prepare the tikkies, otherwise they break.
3. If having problem stuffing and making the tikkis add some corn flour or all
purpose flour.
4. Cholas are also served along with tikkis.
5. Tikkis could be prepared without stuffing. Mix chopped green chilies, red
chili powder, salt and any other ingredients to potato mash, make the
patties and shallow frying them and serve them to suite the taste.
1. In parties serve tikkis buffet style so that guest makes them to their taste.
2. Peeling the potatoes after they cool down, that will make them sickly which
helps to stuff and prepare the tikkies, otherwise they break.
3. If having problem stuffing and making the tikkis add some corn flour or all
purpose flour.
4. Cholas are also served along with tikkis.
5. Tikkis could be prepared without stuffing. Mix chopped green chilies, red
chili powder, salt and any other ingredients to potato mash, make the
patties and shallow frying them and serve them to suite the taste.
Please take the time to let me know what you think about my recipe. Your comments would be helpful to me to improve the recipe.
Thank you
Geeta Seth
Thank you
Geeta Seth
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Hariyalli tikki (Potato with spinach
Mix vegetable pakoras (Fritters) Patties)
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Potato cutlets
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Aloo chola tikki Onion Fritters (Pyaz ka pakoras)
(Potatoes & chick pea patties)
Sabudana and aloo vada
Aloo bonda (Tapioca potatoes patties)
(Spicy potatoes balls)
Hariyalli tikki (Potato with spinach
Mix vegetable pakoras (Fritters) Patties)
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Potato cutlets
Samosa
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