Madhya Pradesh Recipes
 
Navratna Patties  

 
20 Patties

Ingredients
1 kg. cooked potatoes flaked
1/4 kg. mince meat  2 green chillies
1 1/2 tbsp. tur dal 3 red dry chilles
1 tbsp. moong dal 3 sticks cinnamon
1 cup. green peas shelled 4 cloves
1 orange 8 black peppercorns
1/4 cup fresh pomegranate
seeds		 some mint leaves
1/4 cup fresh pomegranate
seeds		 1/2 tbsp. dry coriander seeds
12 cashewnuts 1 tsp. cummin seeds
6 almonds 2 1/2 tsp.salt
1- inch piece ginger 1 tsp. pepper
20 cloves garlic Ghee as required

Method
Wash the minced meat and put in a dekchi. Place the dekchi on fire. Heat the dals, separately in a flat frying pan and put in the meat. Chop the green chillies and add along with one and a half teaspoons salt and shelled green peas. Cover the dekchi and let it cook on medium fire till the meat is half cooked. Put in one and a half table spoons of ghee. Cover the dekchi again and let it cook till the meat is tender. Remove the lid and fry nicely.
Remove the membrane from the orange, shred and put in the mince when it is being fried. Grind ginger, garlic, red chillies, cinnamon, cloves, peppercorns, pomegranate seeds, cummin and coriander seeds. Add this ground paste along with the water, taken out after wshing the grinding stone. Blanche the almonds. Cut the almonds, and cashewnuts into thin silvers. Put these in the above mixture.
Peel the potatoes and mash themalong with pepper and a teaspoon salt. Apply a little ghee to the palms and shape potato into balls. Make a depression in the middle of the ball and stuff it with come of the mince mixture. Make into oblong shapes. Thus make all the patties and roll each of them in breadcrumbs and fry gently over mediumheat, to a golden colour. Serve hot.

NUTRIENT COMPOSITION PER SERVING

MACRONUTRIENTS MICRONUTRIENTS
Energy (Kcal)

201

 Carotene ( μg )

83.47
Protein (g)

5.31

 Vitamin C (mg)

8.5
Carbohydrate (g)

16.5

 Mg  (mg)

32.63
Fat (g)

12.73

 Na  (mg)

11.63
Fibre (g)

0.75

 K  (mg)

220.79
Minerals (g)

0.81

 Mn  (mg)

0.27
Calcium  (mg)

35.55

 Zn  (mg)

0.57
Phosphorus  (mg)

75.87

 Cr  (mg)

0.008
Iron  (mg)

1.02

  

 

Modification
Use oil instead of ghee Use a non-stick tava/ bake the patty to reduce the oil consumption