Broccoli n Cheese Fried Dumplings
A few days back we planned a potluck luncheon + kids play time at a friends place. We were all wary of routine daal chawal, sabji roti fare and felt like treating the kids and ourselves to some home made "filling" snacks for lunch.
While there were plans of dahi wada with aloo chaat and baked samosas, I had committed to contributing the dessert - a home baked eggless cake. However, one member had to drop out last minute so then i felt like taking something more for the lunch. All i had in the refrigerator was a small green head of broccoli. Salad was out, keeping in mind the "snack" theme. So i felt i shld try some fried dumplings. I concocted this receipe, however, since i was experimenting on outsiders, i also checked the internet and found a similar broccoli tikki on tarladalal.com. I left out some of the items in that receipe and instead of shallow fried tikki's made these deep fried dumplings. Decorated them with some toothpick skewers and veggies and thankfully the kids finished all of them - hence this post.
Ingredients for a dozen dumplings:
1 cup broccoli florets (1 small head of broccoli)
1 medium boiled potato
1/4 medium onion finely chopped
2 or 3 drops of lemon juice
1 tsp cornflour
salt to taste
1 processed cheese cube cut into 12 pieces
1/2 cup milk
1 cup breadcrumbs / 1/2 cup semolina (rava)
oil for frying the dumplings
For decoration:
12 toothpicks
12 pieces each of cubed cucumber and tomato
Method:
Blanch the broccoli florets i.e. bring water to the boil and add the florets for a minute or two. Strain them and run them under some cold water. Chop them finely and take them into a mixing bowl. Add 1 boiled and mashed potato, finely chopped onion, lemon juice, 1 tsp cornflour and salt to taste. (If making for adults you may want to add chilli powder/ chopped green chillies too.) Mix well.
Since potato acts as a binder, you will be able to make 12 dumplings out of this mixture. Now, make a depression in each dumpling and put a piece of the cheese cube and then seal the dumpling back into a ball. Dip these cheese stuffed dumplings in milk and roll them on breadcrumbs (or semolina) so that they are evenly coated with the crumbs. To help the crumbs stay on the dumplings while frying, you will need to keep these dumplings in the refrigerator for atleast 15 minutes or until frying time.
You may substitute 1 beaten egg white for milk and then roll dumplings on breadcrumbs. In this case you need not refrigerate them since egg white is an excellent binder.
Fry the dumplings in hot oil until golden brown. Strain them onto tissue paper. Serve them with tomato sauce or chutney or any other dip.
For an extra kick, you may want to use toothpicks as skewers for some cubed cucumber and tomato and then load each dumpling on each toothpick. Add whatever else makes sense on such skewers. Serve with favourite dip.
This is how the final potluck lunch and playtime looked like - i am sorry i did not remember to click the cake.
Handy tip: You may want to substitute processed cheese with paneer (cottage cheese) - in that case grating the cottage cheese and adding it directly to the mixture might be a better bet.
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While there were plans of dahi wada with aloo chaat and baked samosas, I had committed to contributing the dessert - a home baked eggless cake. However, one member had to drop out last minute so then i felt like taking something more for the lunch. All i had in the refrigerator was a small green head of broccoli. Salad was out, keeping in mind the "snack" theme. So i felt i shld try some fried dumplings. I concocted this receipe, however, since i was experimenting on outsiders, i also checked the internet and found a similar broccoli tikki on tarladalal.com. I left out some of the items in that receipe and instead of shallow fried tikki's made these deep fried dumplings. Decorated them with some toothpick skewers and veggies and thankfully the kids finished all of them - hence this post.
Ingredients for a dozen dumplings:
1 cup broccoli florets (1 small head of broccoli)
1 medium boiled potato
1/4 medium onion finely chopped
2 or 3 drops of lemon juice
1 tsp cornflour
salt to taste
1 processed cheese cube cut into 12 pieces
1/2 cup milk
1 cup breadcrumbs / 1/2 cup semolina (rava)
oil for frying the dumplings
For decoration:
12 toothpicks
12 pieces each of cubed cucumber and tomato
Method:
Blanch the broccoli florets i.e. bring water to the boil and add the florets for a minute or two. Strain them and run them under some cold water. Chop them finely and take them into a mixing bowl. Add 1 boiled and mashed potato, finely chopped onion, lemon juice, 1 tsp cornflour and salt to taste. (If making for adults you may want to add chilli powder/ chopped green chillies too.) Mix well.
Since potato acts as a binder, you will be able to make 12 dumplings out of this mixture. Now, make a depression in each dumpling and put a piece of the cheese cube and then seal the dumpling back into a ball. Dip these cheese stuffed dumplings in milk and roll them on breadcrumbs (or semolina) so that they are evenly coated with the crumbs. To help the crumbs stay on the dumplings while frying, you will need to keep these dumplings in the refrigerator for atleast 15 minutes or until frying time.
crumb coated dumplings - did i say a dozen ??
You may substitute 1 beaten egg white for milk and then roll dumplings on breadcrumbs. In this case you need not refrigerate them since egg white is an excellent binder.
Fry the dumplings in hot oil until golden brown. Strain them onto tissue paper. Serve them with tomato sauce or chutney or any other dip.
dumplings in a tissue lined box - for taking to the potluck
For an extra kick, you may want to use toothpicks as skewers for some cubed cucumber and tomato and then load each dumpling on each toothpick. Add whatever else makes sense on such skewers. Serve with favourite dip.
toothpick skewers for kids to pick up n eat with ease
This is how the final potluck lunch and playtime looked like - i am sorry i did not remember to click the cake.
Handy tip: You may want to substitute processed cheese with paneer (cottage cheese) - in that case grating the cottage cheese and adding it directly to the mixture might be a better bet.
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