Aloo tikki is a popular North Indian snack/chaat prepared with potatoes and other spices. It is one of the easiest snack and can be prepared in a jiffy. It is usually served hot with green chutney and tamarind chutney or spicy chickpea gravy or ragda (a gravy prepared with dry yellow peas). You can make different chaat varieties using aloo tikki like aloo tikki chole, ragda patties, aloo tikki burger etc which I will share later. Today we will learn how to make aloo tikki following our easy recipe with step wise pictures.
Aloo Tikki-How to make Aloo Tikki
Prep Time : 10 mins
Cook Time :
15 mins Yields:
8 tikkies Recipe Category:
Snacks-Chaat Recipe Cuisine:
North Indian Ingredients needed
Potatoes -3 medium size
Cornflour (white) -1 tbsp
Red chilli powder – 3/4 tsp
Roasted cumin powder – 1 tsp
Amchur powder – 1/2 tsp
Green chilli -1-2
Garam masala powder – 1/2 tsp
Coriander leaves -finely chopped -2-3 tbsp
Salt needed
Bread crumbs as needed
Oil for shallow frying
Preparation
Wash and pressure cook potatoes without cutting it for 3 whistles. Alternatively, you can also cook in a pan until soft. Peel the skin and mash it well without lumps.
Roasted cumin powder – Dry roast jeera seeds or cumin seeds and powder it finely. This will give you more flavor than ready made ones as it is freshly prepared. You can use ready made cumin seed powder also.
Finely chop green chilli and coriander leaves. (coriander leaves should not be wet).
Method
In a bowl mix together mashed potatoes, cornflour, green chilli, coriander leaves, red chilli powder, garam masala powder, amchur powder, roasted cumin powder and salt.You can adjust the spice powder as per your personal preferences by tasting the mixture.
The mixture should not contain any potato lumps. Divide the mixture equally and make small patties/discs.
Coat the pattie with breadcrumbs.
Heat a tawa and shallow fry both sides of the patties/discs by drizzling oil around the patties. Cook until both sides turn golden brown. You can shallow fry 4-5 patties at a time.
Serve hot with green chutney or tomato sauce.
Do check out more Easy Chaat recipes/fast food from Padhuskitchen
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Dahi Papdi Chaat
Bhel Puri
Dahi Vada
Masala Puri
For more, refer Snacks Recipes
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View Comments (21)
lovely aalu tikkis :)
I am trying this tonight in Canada. Love your recipes and have made many of them. I usually have to make substitutions since I can't always get all the ingredients but they still come out great!
Love it to the core, my favourite aloo tikkis.
Thanks Madam. Shall try this during this weekend.
Will try out this weekend. Looks very yummy..Thanks Padhu
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love it. simply irresistible tikkis..
Very appealing.I am going to try this item soon.
Thank u so much for this awesome recipe!
I made this for my daughter and her friends, and the tikkis were gobbled up faster than the next batch could be cooked!! we had a great time having these yummy tikkis!! thanks Padhu for such lovely and tasty recipes!