I’m always on the look out for easy to make and healthy snacks that I can feed the kids when they come back from school. We all love rajma / red kidney beans at home and as I often make sundal for the kids to snack on and add them to Dal Makhani to have with rotis for our dinner, these beans are always available in the pantry. So last week when I made rajma sundal, I reserved some of the rajma and made these tikkis and the kids loved it to bits.
These tikkis make a wonderful snacks box item. You can pack these tikkis as it is or you can use this as a patty in a burger. Just cut the burger buns / dinner rolls horizontally. Toast them on a griddle, apply mint chuntey on one half and the garlic chutney on the other half and place this tikki / patty in the middle and there you go.
This recipe is adapted from Tarla Dalal’s Healthy Starters book.
Rajma Tikkis
Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 15 Minutes
Total Time: 30 Minutes
Makes: 8
Ingredients:
- Rajma / Red Kidney beans – 100 gms
- Potatoes, boiled and mashed – 2
- Onion – 1
- Green chillies – 2
- Ginger – 1/2 inch piece
- Cheese, grated – 3 tbsp
- Garam masala powder – 1/2 tsp
- Chaat masala powder – 1/2 tsp
- Turmeric power – 1/4 tsp
- Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp
- Corn flour – 3 tbsp
- Salt – to taste
- Oil – to cook
Instructions:
1. Soak rajma / red kidney beans over night and pressure cook till soft in enough water. Drain completely and cool. Pulse in a mixer 2-3 times till they become coarse.
2. Chop the onions, green chillies, ginger finely.
3. Heat a pan with 1 tsp oil. Add ginger and green chillies and sauté for 1/2 minute. Now add onion and sauté till they turn pink.
4. Now add the pulsed rajma, mashed potatoes, chaat masala powder, turmeric powder, garam masala powder, salt and cook over low flame for 3-4 minutes. Stir continuously to avoid sticking to the bottom of the pan.
5. Take off fire. Add grated cheese, coriander leaves, 2 tbsp corn flour and mix well. Keep aside to cool.
6. Take a small lemon size from the mixture and make into a ball. Flatten it slightly between your palms.
7. Spread the remaining corn flour on a plate and roll these tikkis till they are evenly coated on both sides.
8. Heat a non-stick tawa (griddle) and place the tikkis on it. Drizzle a few drops of oil around the tikkis and cook till they turn brown on both sides.
9. Serve hot with tomato ketchup.
Notes:
- You can either shallow fry or deep fry these tikkis.
- Instead of coating the tikkis with corn flour you can also use fine bread crumbs.
- For a low calorie version you can replace grated cheese with paneer / cottage cheese or you can totally skip this ingredient.
- You can skip the corn flour altogether and instead use 2 slices of bread to help with the binding.
This is off to Let’s Cook Series #17 ~ Starters / Appetizers
Would make a great tikki for burger… Delish
looks yumm..love the clicks too!
Its pouring over here and the virtual snack is perfect on time… 🙂 🙂 Yummy patties….
what do u know even i had made rajma tikkis some time back bt made even easier version and included peanuts in it..
agreed they r the healthy version of tikkis
wow…very tempting & healthy snack…can’t wait to giv a try now..:)
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Healthy one Radhika…
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Healthy tikkis, simply love it with ketchup.
wow looks good and rajam my fav.. nice for a change though…happy onam and happy holidays
super delicious dear
That looks soo inviting..I wish i cud reach my hands thru screen and grab a few!
such a healthy starter…perfect with some chilly sauce
Mouthwatering tikkis!!
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healthy tikkis dear…
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Super healthy patty
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Lovely and super healthy tikkies. Bookmarked it.
very nice presentation and they look very delicious……..
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Healthy snack,perfect with a cup of tea.
Looks nice!
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Healthy and delicious tikkis,lovely clicks….
Addictive tikkis and healthy too..Perfect get to gether appetizer.
Wow, yummy tikkis
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healthy and delicious rajma tikki..
Rajma tikkis! What a great idea… Am sure they tasted as good as they look 🙂
Healthy starter recipe….looks yummy.
nice way to make kids to eat healthy stuffs in their fav format. Looks lovely.
Beautiful presentation..
Delicious and healthy tikkis
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These look great 🙂 I cook with red kidney beans a lot too, and when I make burgers with them I use nutritional yeast rather than cheese as me and my husband are vegan. (The kids can add their cheese on top!) I tend to bake them, but cooking on a tava with just a little oil sounds good to me; I’ll try it that way next time… thanks !