CHANA TIKKI

Chana Tikki

Chana or Garbanzo beans as called are used in preparing many dishes. These can be used in many curry dishes. Tikkis made with chana is a simple snack. This simple and easy healthy delicious snack can be made in very less time.
INGREDIENTS

• Chana                             1 cup
• Potato                           2
• Bread crumbs                 1/4 cup
• Green chilies                  1(chopped)
• Grated ginger                 1 tsp
• Onion                             1
• Coriander                       2 sprigs
• Salt                                to taste
• Oil                                  for shallow frying

PROCEDURE
Soak the chana overnight. Boil and peel the potatoes. Mash the potatoes and grind the chole to a fine paste. Cut the onions, green chilies and coriander into fine pieces. Mix in the potatoes, chana paste, onion pieces, coriander, ginger, green chilies, salt and bread crumbs. Make the mixture into small tikkis. Shallow fry the tikkis on a tava on a slow flame. Serve the tikkis with tomato sauce or sweet and sour chutney.
TIPS

• If the mixture is too mushy and cannot be made into tikkis add little rice flour or maida.
• Beat thick curds into a creamy texture, add cream cheese, little pepper and serve tikkis with this mixture.
• Alternatively use chana dal in place of chana to make the tikkis. Soak chana dal for 3 hours and use.