Potato Cutlets with Cheese filling

Was bored at home Saturday evening and this is what I tried making. (Since I couldn’t find anything similar on the net
I liked it, coz it was kinda of a typical evening snack and filling too.


Ingredients :

Serves 2-3

For Cutlets:
Potatoes : 3 Large, Boiled and mashed
Green Peas: ½ cup, par Boiled & Mashed
Green Chilly paste : Made of 3 chillies
Garlic Paste : ½ tbsp
Onion : 1 medium, Chopped
Jeera Powder ( Roasted) : ¼ tsp
Kitchen King masala : ½ tsp
Garam Masala : ¼ tsp
Amchoor Powder : ¼ tsp
Salt to taste
Oil for shallow frying
Bread crumbs

For the filling :
Cheese: ½ cup, Grated ( I used Pizza cheese)
Chilly Flakes : ¼ tsp
Black pepper powder ; ½ tsp

Steps :
1. In a large bowl, mix together Potatoes, Peas, Onion, the chilli and the garlic paste.
2. Once mixed, add all the dry ingredients – Jeera powder, amchoor , Kitchen king and garam masala powder. Keep it aside.
3. In another bowl, mix together Cheese, chilly flakes and pepper powder. Doesn’t need salt, as the cheese is quite salty.
4. For the cutlet mixture, add salt mix again. Doesn’t matter if it is not smooth dough.
5. Take this cutlet mixture, enough for one. Flatten on your palm. Take a small portion of the cheese filling, (marble size) place in the middle of the cutlet mixture and cover.
6. Once rolled, flatten like a cutlet, roll over bread crumbs.
7. Heat a pan, with 2 tbsp of oil.
8. Place the cutlet and shallow fry till golden brown.
9. Serve hot , cut into 2 ( so that you can see the melted cheese), with tomato sauce or pudina chutney.
10. Enjoy !

God is one??

It’s a cherished wish, when you get a day off from work, and you don’t have anything to do.
It was an off for me on Krishna Janmashtami. The thought of this day, bought back some fond memories. Since I dint have any other plans apart from going to the bank, I told my mom, that we’d visit ISKCON temple. My mom was very happy. Firstly, coz I don’t believe in Idol worship & I am suggesting a visit to the temple. Secondly, ISKCON temple….i had some very bad experience there long time back and didn’t want to visit that place again.
It’s hardly a 10 min drive from my place to ISKCON, but took 30 mins (Thanks to Metro work). We reached the temple by 12 noon. As always for Janmashtami, the crowd is huge. The entrance was divided into three. General Entry, Green Pass holders and Red Pass holders.
Guess Red is for the highest paid patrons; Green is for short term / life time members. Since we are neither, I and mom entered the General entry. The crowd was not as in crazy numbers, as most of the celebrations were held the day before. But the reach to the main sacrosanct, was a serpentine route. Add to the chaos, there is a kind of a divide wall. Guess the Red / Green pass , is a pass through a shorter route.
I was in for more surprise. Once in the main hall, there are again 3 queues. The nearest passing the idol for Red pass, the second for green and the last ( as in most farther from the idol) for the general.
WOW ! I am of the opinion, god doesn’t discriminate. But why such a discrimination the people make , for just even seeing the god?
And, they don’t even let you complete your prayers….its a queue, so you have to keep moving.

I was telling my mom, such disparity. When God is one, he must be accessible to all. If such is a scenario here, imagine in Tirupathi. Does the lord say, he has paid more for the ticket, he should be let in first? Does he say, this person is from a higher caste, let him see me first? Does he discriminate this person is fair, this is dark?

Its only humans who do the inequity.
And I am sick of this human attitude.
I came back home, a bit amused, a bit sad, but a lot disgusted. Even visiting the temple is commercialized! And to what extent…
In the evening, mom was again like, it’s a Thursday, can we go to sai baba temple ? And I had a huge grin… which was inexplicable.