Aloo Tikki Recipe (Crispy Indian Potato Patties)

If there’s another integral dish of the Indian road meals tradition, it’s the Aloo Tikki. Made with aloo (potatoes), spices and herbs these crispy, crusty and oh-so-good tikki (patties) are beloved simply as it’s or as a part of different preparations like a chaat, and so on. This submit has the fundamental Aloo Tikki recipe, plus I’ve perked it up with a savory inexperienced peas stuffing (that may be simply given a miss). These completely spiced and herby potato patties are scrumptious, however the addition of inexperienced peas solely makes them higher.

About Aloo Tikki

An Aloo Tikki is normally common in North India the place it’s offered on road carts and loved by all as a delicious road meals. The road model Aloo Tikki recipe normally has a savory filling of inexperienced peas or Paneer or chana dal, and is served with Chana Masala or a spicy chickpea curry or chole.

All of that is lastly topped generously with chopped onions, candy tamarind chutney and fiery inexperienced coriander chutney. Generally, even curd/dahi (Indian yogurt) can be added to lead to a dish, bursting with flavors and textures.

When you are attempting this Aloo Tikki recipe at residence, you’ll be able to clearly skip on the stuffing and go forward with the plain Aloo Tikki. These potato patties made with out the inexperienced peas stuffing additionally tastes spectacular.

The Aloo Tikki will get a makeover within the type of Aloo Pattice in Western India, the place the potato patties are sometimes made with none filling. Nonetheless, the strategy of making ready these patties are related with slight variations within the spices added.

You could find the crispy Aloo Pattice on the streets of Mumbai served with Ragda or a white peas curry. This widespread dish is also referred to as the Ragda Pattice.

Step-by-Step Information

make Aloo Tikki

Cook dinner Potatoes and Inexperienced Peas

1. The potatoes and inexperienced peas need to be cooked collectively first. You’ll be able to decide to not cook dinner the inexperienced peas.

On this case, solely cook dinner the potatoes utilizing both of the strategy listed under or you’ll be able to cook dinner potatoes in a pan or pot including water as wanted.

a) Cooking in stress cooker on stovetop: In a 3 or 4 liter stress cooker, take 4 to five giant potatoes and a pair of.5 cups water. Place a small trivet and preserve a bowl containing ½ cup inexperienced peas in it. Strain cook dinner for five to six whistles on medium to medium-high warmth.

b) Cooking in Prompt Pot: Place 4 to five giant potatoes within the metal insert of a 6 quart Prompt Pot. Add 2.5 cups water. Place a small trivet. On high of the trivet, preserve a small bowl containing ½ cup inexperienced peas. Strain cook dinner on excessive for 20 to 25 minutes.

You may as well place the trivet that comes along with your Prompt Pot. First add 2.5 cups water. Maintain the potatoes and the bowl full of inexperienced peas on the trivet.

2. For the stress cooker, take away the lid solely after the stress settles naturally.

For Prompt Pot, do a fast stress launch after 5 to 7 minutes.

3. Test with a knife or fork to see if the potatoes are cooked effectively and tender. The knife or fork ought to be capable to slid simply if the potatoes are cooked correctly.

If the potatoes are undercooked, then cook dinner them for some extra minutes.

Make Inexperienced Peas Stuffing

4. Drain the water from the steamed inexperienced peas utilizing a small strainer or colander. Take the peas in a bowl and mash them.

5. Mash to a rough texture.

6. To the peas, add the next components:

• ¼ teaspoon crimson chili powder or cayenne pepper
• ½ teaspoon coriander powder (floor coriander)
• ½ teaspoon fennel powder (floor fennel)
• ½ teaspoon dried mango powder or ¼ to ½ teaspoon lemon juice
• 2 teaspoons finely chopped ginger
• 1 teaspoon finely chopped inexperienced chilies
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped coriander leaves (cilantro)
• 2 pinches black salt and common salt as per style

7. Combine very effectively. Test style and add extra salt if wanted.

Make Potato Combination

8. If you drain the inexperienced peas, drain the water from the potatoes as effectively and allow them to grow to be heat.

Don’t preserve them within the sizzling water because the potatoes might find yourself soaking the water and grow to be soggy. Be certain all of the water is totally drained.

9. When the potatoes are heat, peel them and grate. I discover it simpler to grate the potatoes after which mash them. Nonetheless, you can too chop them and mash with a potato masher.

Let the grated or mashed potatoes cool fully to room temperature. You’ll be able to even preserve the potatoes within the fridge for half-hour.

10. After the mashed potatoes have cooled fully, add the next components to it:

• ½ teaspoon crimson chili powder or cayenne pepper
• ½ teaspoon garam masala powder or curry powder
• 1 teaspoon coriander powder
• 1 teaspoon dried mango powder or ½ to 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• ½ teaspoon black salt and common salt as per style

11. Subsequent, add ¼ cup breadcrumbs and ¼ cup arrowroot flour.

As a substitute of arrowroot flour, you’ll be able to decide so as to add rice flour, cornflour (cornstarch), tapioca starch or roasted gram flour (roasted besan).

12. Combine every little thing very effectively.

Assemble and Make Aloo Patties

13. Divide the potato combination into small or medium formed patties with a hole heart or cup formed discs. You’ll be able to apply some oil in your palms when making the patties or tikki.

14. Place the inexperienced peas stuffing within the heart.

15. Convey the mashed potato edges on the highest and seal them.

16. Roll gently between your palms and flatten. Make all tikkis this manner.

Fry Aloo Tikki

17. Warmth 2 tablespoons oil on a skillet, tawa or frying pan until it’s medium sizzling. Gently place the tikkis and start to pan-fry them.

18. When the bottom is crispy and golden, gently flip every tikki with a spatula.

19. Fry the second facet until crispy and golden. You’ll be able to gently flip a few times extra until the tikkis are golden and crisp evenly.

20. Take away and place in a strainer stored on high of a bowl. You’ll be able to even drain them on paper towels. Fry in batches all tikkis this manner.

Add 2 tablespoons extra oil when frying the second batch.

21. Serve sizzling Aloo Tikki with coriander chutney and tamarind chutney. You may as well serve these potato patties with candy yogurt raita.

What extra with Aloo Tikki

In addition to serving this Aloo Tikki with yogurt, chutneys and spice blends, the best way it’s historically served in cities in Northern India, listed here are a couple of enjoyable and equally tasty concepts that this Aloo Tikki recipe might be reworked to.

1. Aloo Tikki Chaat – This a mouth-watering mélange of spicy, candy, bitter and tangy flavors as is all the time in a chaat. Considerably much like how an Aloo Tikki is frequently served on North Indian streets.
2. Aloo Tikki Chole – A double bonanza for all those that love their potato tikkis in addition to can’t ever get sufficient of the uber important Punjabi Chole or chana masala. Fried tikkis topped with spicy chickpea curry, chutneys, crunchy onions, chaat masala and sev; there’s nothing that you’ll not like on this dish!
3. Aloo Tikki Burger – So, this one dives straight into the fusion world. With potato tikkis between burger buns, this very Indianized burger shall be a success along with your children. Strive it!
4. Frankie – A Frankie is sort of a tasty model of a roll, fairly frankly! Use the Aloo Tikki recipe to make the primary stuffing on this recipe and also you’re all set. This additionally will get made with entire wheat flour wrap. So, there’s a nutritious angle to it as effectively.

Skilled Suggestions

1. Stuffing: The spiced inexperienced peas stuffing might be given a skip. You’ll be able to even use steamed candy corn, grated cottage cheese or paneer and cooked cut up chickpeas/chana dal rather than the inexperienced peas. Ensure that the corn or chana dal are cooked effectively and stay separate with out being pasty or mushy.
2. Binding: Including a binding agent is all the time a good suggestion, because it helps to maintain the tikkis in form, crisp them up and never crumble whereas frying. For a very crispy Aloo Tikki, utilizing breadcrumbs is a superb concept. So, I choose a mix of breadcrumbs and arrowroot flour in my Aloo Tikki recipe. You should use both.

   Additionally, cool the potatoes fully earlier than including any thickener. Or else, the combination will flip right into a sticky mass of potatoes.

3. Binding components: As a substitute of arrowroot flour, you’ll be able to even use cornstarch, rice flour, roasted besan (chickpea flour or gram flour), tapioca starch and potato starch. However don’t miss on the breadcrumbs as they assist in getting a pleasant crunchy crust on the patties.
4. Leftover bread slices: If in case you have leftover bread, then you are able to do this. After soaking the slices in water, squeeze effectively and add to the aloo. The bread turns into the binding agent on this case.
5. Herbs and spices: Relying in your palate, reduce or add extra of the herbs and spice powders. Contemporary mint leaves and chaat masala powder additionally improve the flavors of the tikki.
6. Crumbing: You’ll be able to crumb coat the patties previous to frying them. Historically, we don’t crumb coat aloo tikki.
7. Crispiness: You’ll be able to twice fry the patties for extra crispiness. Start by frying the patties until a pale golden shade on them is achieved. Take away and put aside to grow to be heat or cool. End by frying once more until golden and crisp.
8. For fasting: In case you determine to make these aloo tikki for Hindu vrat (fasting) days, use solely arrowroot flour, water chestnut flour, tapioca flour or buckwheat flour. Additionally, rather than common salt, add edible rock salt.  
9. Freezing: After shaping these Indian potato patties, you’ll be able to retailer them in a sealed container or zip lock bag and freeze them. Thaw the frozen patties earlier than frying them.
10. Serving solutions: Aloo Tikki might be served as a night snack with some inexperienced cilantro chutney, tamarind chutney, tomato ketchup and even chana masala. This recipe will yield 6 giant potato tikki. You may make medium or giant measurement tikki. You may as well scale the recipe accordingly to make for small or bigger servings

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This Aloo Tikki recipe submit from the archives first revealed in August 2009 has been republished and up to date on 16 July 2022.