Sweet Potato & Spinach Cutlet

A few weeks back, when I was watching some indian channel, there was a cooking show showing some recipe with Sweet Potato and spinach. It has the shape of a aloo tikiya. I do not exactly remember the recipe and I made something like a cutlet for a sunday snack, (not exactly a cutlet but I named it so) with sweet potato and it tasted very nice. So here is my version of the recipe in the cooking show.

Ingrediants:
Servings: 7-8 Cutlets
One medium sized sweet potato
One small potato
spinach (that makes about 2 table spoons of puree)
1 tbspn of green peas
1 tbspn chopped cilantro
Red Chilli powder- as per taste
Black Pepper powder - 1/2 tspn
Bread Crumbs - one cup
shredded cheese - 2 table spoons
oil - 2-3 tbsps needed for frying
Salt to taste

Procedure

1. Boil the sweet potato and the potato. Peel the skin and mash them. 2. Microwave the spinach for a few minutes and grind it to a smooth paste, something like spinach puree. 3. Add the spinach puree, peas, salt, chilli powder, black pepper powder and chopped cilanthro to the mashed potatoes and make a sort of dough. 4.If the dough is watery add a little bread crumbs to make it free from moisture. 5.Make the dough into balls. Press it in the middle, put some cheese inside, close it again so that it is as if the cheese is stuffed inside the cutlet. I used paramesan cheese, however you can use mozerella or goat cheese according to your preference. 6. Now flatten the balls like a cutlet and roll them in bread crumps. If you wish to have a thick crust, add water to a little maida (all purpose flour) , dip the cutlet in it and then roll it in bread crumps. 7. Put 2-3 table spoons of oil in a pan and toast the cutlets until both sides get a golden brown color.

Hmm Yummy!!... You can serve it hot with tomato sauce or coriander chutney. The cheese inside the cutlet melts when the cutlet is toasted and makes the cutlet juicy and tastes awesome.