Raw Banana Croquettes

Cuisine Style: Continental | Cooking Time: 20 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Type: Snacks | Take with: Tomato sauce,Green Chutney

Croquettes are all time healthy snacks. Each bite will have crunchy outside and soft raw banana inside.

Ingredients

For chickpeas stuffing

• Brown chickpeas [boiled, mashed] - ½ cup
• Breadcrumbs - 3 tbsp
• Ginger [grated] - ½ tbsp
• Coriander leaves [Chopped] - ¼ cup
• Garam masala - ¼ tsp
• Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
• Red chilli powder - ¼ tsp
• Coconut [grated, roasted] - 1 tbsp
• Cheese [grated] - 3 tbsp
• Corn flour - 1 tbsp
• Lemon juice - 1 ½ tbsp
• Sugar - ¼ tsp
• Salt - to taste

For outer layer of Croquettes

• Raw banana & Potato [boiled, mashed, cooled] - 1 cup
• Egg [whisked] - 2
• Breadcrumbs - 100 g
• Corn flour for dusting - 25 g
• Oil for deep frying

Preparation

• Heat pan with oil add ginger, boiled and mashed brown chickpeas then saute gently. Add roasted coconut, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, corn flour and bread crumbs, salt & mix well.
• Turn off heat add chopped coriander leaves, sugar, lemon juice & mix well.
• Mix raw banana & potato with pepper and salt & refrigerate for 20 minutes.
• After 20 minutes, make equal size ball and depress the center, fill with brown chick peas & cheese stuffing.
• You will get again ball shape after closing all the edges. Now roll this ball alongside gently to make cylindrical shaped croquettes.
• Repeat the above steps for all ball shape croquettes.
• Roll in corn flour then dip each Croquette in the whisked egg, roll it in breadcrumbs.
• Make sure all the sides of the croquettes equally covered/sealed with breadcrumbs.
• Heat oil in a pan, deep fry all croquettes one by one. Once they are turned golden brown turn off.
• Serve hot with tomato sauce, chilli sauce or green chutney.

Note

• You can add 1 tbsp of dry mango powder or chat masala.

Tip

• Grease your palm before making croquettes.