I grew up eating these beetroot chops at our Bengali neighbor’s house. The word “Beet chops” was etched in mind even before I knew of words such as cutlet or patties or tikkis even existed. Beetroot Chops or rather Vegetable chops are a popular Bengali street food and they make a perfect, healthy snack for kids. I never had a problem eating beets during my childhood and I can say the same to my kids too. Even when I first introduced beets in their diet they took to it very happily unlike other kids who refuse to eat the veggie.
But I cannot say the same thing about my hubby as he has a problem with red colored veggies and fruits. He is the only person who I’ve come across so far that hates watermelons and strawberries for the reason they are red in color. There are numerous ways you can make and cook these patties. You can stuff them with paneer (Cottage cheese) and roasted nuts, grill them, deep fry them, add whatever veggies that your kids refuse to eat as beets have an amazing way of staining whatever it comes in contact with, that your kids won’t even know what went into these patties and will happily gobble it down without complaining.
I make these mixed veg cutlets whenever I clean the fridge and find stray veggies. I just make them into patties and store them in the fridge without cooking them in an air tight container. The next day morning, I just have to thaw them a little bit before cooking and Voila!, a healthy snack is ready for my kids to be packed to school.
Beetroot Tikki Recipe
Prep time: 10 mins | Cook time: 20 mins | Makes: 7
Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Appetizers
Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Appetizers
Ingredients:
- Beetroot – 2
- Potato – 1
- Onion – 1
- Green chilies – 1
- Red chili powder – 1/2 tsp
- Coriander powder – 1/2 tsp
- Garam masala powder – 1/4 tsp
- Chaat masala powder – 1/4 tsp
- Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp
- Gram flour / Chickpea flour (kadalai maavu) – 4 tbsp
- Salt – to taste
- Oil – 4 tbsp
Instructions:
- Wash and scrape the skin of beetroot and potato. Roughly chop into big chunks. Pressure cook for 2 whistles and the after the pressure is released, mash them well with a potato masher and keep aside.
- Heat a pan with 2 tsp oil. Add finely chopped onion and green chilies. Sauté till the onions turn pink. Now add red chili powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder and mix well.
- Add the mashed beetroot-potato mixture, finely chopped coriander leaves, 2 tbsp gram flour (Chickpea flour), chaat masala powder, salt and mix till everything comes together as a ball. Cook this over low flame.
- Let the mixture cool completely. Make ping pong sized balls and slightly press them between your palm. Take the remaining gram flour in a bowl and drop the patties into the bowl for dusting. Shake off excess flour.
- Heat a pan or girdle. Place the patties leaving enough space between them. Drizzle few drops of oil around them and let them cook on 1 side. Gently turn them over with a spatula and let the other side cook as well. Transfer to a serving plate.
- Sprinkle some more chaat masala powder on the arranged tikkis. Serve hot with chutney or tomato ketchup. I served the beetroot tikkis with Mint Yogurt Dip.
Notes:
- I normally add bread slices (fresh or stale) while mixing the vegetables to absorb excess moisture if any and use bread crumbs for coating before cooking.
- But since the challenge is to make this recipe as a Vegan, I avoided bread slices and used gram flour (Chickpea flour) instead. You can also use semolina (Sooji/Rava) for dusting.
- If you do not have both bread or chickpea flour to use for binding, feel free to use corn flour or rice flour.
- You can also bake or grill these patties instead of shallow frying.
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These look delicious! (And I bet they’d be divine stuffed with paneer, as you suggested!)
Healthy n yummy tikis….
Healthy !!
Very beautiful and healthy patties !
I am definitely going to make these
Yum!
Wonderful recipe, thanks 🙂 consider this pinned!
Lovely! So fun to see all of these creative beet recipes! Thank you so much for participating in the Potluck.
That looks delicious – Thanks for sharing on the potluck
I think I am the opposite of your husband because I love red foods, especially beets 🙂 These look delicious!
Your husband is so missing out! Those sound incredible!
These look really lovely, how many does the recipe make. As someone going through the potluck, I think you should make your “Go Back” and “Go Forward” links more clear, so it is easier to negotiate.
Muy hermoso preparado me encanta tomo nota lo harè,abrazos.
Love it ping pong ball size beet root recipe lovely 🙂
These are great. You are lucky, you do not have to share them with your husband ;D
Thank you for the recipe.
The chops look delicious… and that sauce looks out of this world! Thanks so much for sharing.
These look perfect to eat cold, which is what I plan to do tomorrow on my 3.5 hour interstate flight!
looks great..will definately try this…
This looks gorgeous..bet it would taste great in a sandwich or mini sliders 🙂
They look gorgeous..bet it would make a great mini slider.
These look fantastic! They’re almost like itty bitty beet burgers.
They turned out really well. Very healthy recipe.. thanks for sharing !!
Yum! Thank your for sharing this recipe. I hadn’t thought to use beets like this. 🙂
I can understand why your hubby doesn’t like watermelon (I’m not a fan either), but strawberries? I guess to each his own. Anyway, this recipe looks delicious!! I didn’t taste beets until I was an adult, but I immediately loved them. I’ve never had anything like this recipe before, however; but it looks amazing! Celeste 🙂
So pink and pretty! A welcome alternative to potato tikkis. Love the idea.
I love this recipe, what a great way to use beets. Happy VVP!
I love this idea, what a great way to use the featured ingredient! Happy VVP!
Sounds delicious! I love beets and these patties sound so flavorful!
i think i ll make this soon. atleast to eat it with the dip
Yay Beet Tikkis! One of my favourites. They look yum. 🙂
Yay, Beetroot Tikkis! 🙂 They look yum.
Stomach is now growling…if you saw my entry, you know I’m a huge fan of any kind of Indian food! And your poor husband missing out on red fruits and veggies…
Saved this recipe to make for later. Thank you!
oh, radhika mam ,i’m banty. thank you , i was finding this recipie, but i didn’t know it’s name. Have same story like you.
My friend mitra ‘s mom used to make it , and we ate it so much in school recess time. He told me recipie name vegetable chopp ,but i thought it was wrongly heard by him,
so thank you for giving this recepie , hope it will taste as my childhood friend ‘s mon was making ,
i will try to make it before finishing collage
Very unique recipe