Crispy Chicken Cutlet

Ingredients :

1. Chicken ( boiled and shredded)- 400 gms
2. Bread (wet in water and crushed) - 3 slices
3. Onion(chopped finely)- 2 medium size
4. Garlic (chopped)- 6 to 7 cloves
5. Ginger (finely chopped)- 1 inch size
6. Green chilly (chopped)- 2
7. Coriander powder- 1 1/2  tsp
8. Chilly powder- 1/2 tsp
9. Jeera powder- 1 tsp
10. Mutton masala powder- 1/2 tsp
11. Vinegar- 1 1/2 tsp
12. Salt to taste
13. Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
14. Black pepper powder- 2 tsp
15. Garam masala- 1/2 tsp
16. Bread crumbs
17. Egg (beaten)-3
18. Maida flour- 1 cup
19. Oil



Procedure :

Heat 2 tbs of oil in a kadhai and add onions, ginger, garlic and chilly. Fry until the onion becomes translucent in color. Next add the chicken and all the masala powder, salt and vinegar and mix well. Now squeeze the excess water from the crushed bread and mix it well with the chicken mixture. Cook it for 5 minutes and remove the kadhai when the mixture will turn sticky. Now keep it in refrigerator for 1 hour. Mean while keep maida, beaten egg and bread crumbs in three separate bowls in the respective order. Heat oil in a deep bottom kadhai for frying the cutlets. After an hour take the mixture out and make medium or small size balls and press them between your palms. Dip them into maida first then egg and lastly in the bread crumbs. Make sure the cutlets are fully covered with bread crumbs from all side. When the oil is smoking hot, add the cutlets one by one to it and fry. Remove them when the cutlets turn golden brown. Keep them on a paper napkin to soak excess oil. Serve hot with Tomato ketchup.