Textured Vegetable Protein or Choti soyabean Tikki
Author: Alka
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 40 mins
Total time: 1 hour
Textured vegetable protein stuffed potato tikki recipe
Ingredients
  • Potatoes 6-7
  • TVP (Choti soyabean) 50 gms
  • Green chillies 4-5
  • Cumin seeds
  • Bread slices5-6
  • Tomato (optional)-1
  • Salt as per taste
  • Coriander powder 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder  ½ tsp
  • Garam masala powder ½ tsp
  • Coriander leaves for garnishing
  • Oil for frying
Method
  1. Soak TVP in hot water for about half an hour.
  2. Rinse it and squeeze out all the water.
  3. In a pan put some oil and add cumin seeds, saute  till light brown in colour
  4. Now add chopped tomato and fry.Tomato here could be substituted with fresh lemon juice, but in that case lemon juice should be added after TVP is cooked
  5. Add TVP, salt, turmeric powder, coriander powder and fry it further for about 2 minutes
  6. Add garam masala powder and mix well
  7. Let it cook for 2-3 min., till all the water is evaporated.
  8. Garnish with coriander leaves and let it cool
  9. Meanwhile boil the potatoes and peel them
  10. Mash potatoes, add salt  and crumbled bread slices(grind bread slices in mixie along with green chillies) and mix it properly
  11. Take a small portion of this mixture and  flat it on greased palm of your hand
  12. Put small amount of  TVP mix. and roll it back to form a tikki
  13. Now either deep fry in hot oil or shallow fry in pan or griddle till golden brown
  14. Serve it with chutney or ketchup
  15. Note: In case of deep frying, first fry only one tikki, if it tends to crumble then either the oil is not sufficiently hot or you need to add more bread slices in potato mixture
Recipe by Sindhi Rasoi |Sindhi Recipes at https://test.sindhirasoi.com/2008/03/soyabean-tikki/