This recipe is so easy to make and delicious to eat. It involves hardly any cooking and can actually be made in less than fifteen minutes if you keep all your ingredients together.

Firstly take two large potatoes and pressure cook them for upto seven or eight whistles. Larger the potatoes the longer they take to cook.  Remove the skin and allow it to cool. Mix together half a cup of peanuts that have been roasted, Half a cup of uncooked white corn, one teaspoon of red chiili sauce and one teaspoon of soya sauce. To this add the juice of one full lemon.

Then add two to three tablespoons of finely chopped basil leave and a few coriander leaves. Make sure you clean the basil and coriander well with water. Add two heaped teaspoons of corn flour , a pinch of salt and some red food color. Put all these ingredients in a food processor, omitting the potato. Churn it well. Churn it till it becomes thick. Make sure that all yhe ingredients are well mixed and no big pieces remain.

Remove from the food processor and put it in another vessel. Now add the potatoes and also a pinch of baking powder and mash it well using your hands. Make small round balls and flatten them to resemble cutlets and shallow fry them or cook it on a non stick pan. If you feel it is sticking to the pan then add a bit more corn flour to bind it together or simply roll it in bread crumbs.

This easy preparation is best eaten with ketchup or chutney. It is extremely healthy and so easy to make that you can ask the kids to help in the preparation as well. It will also then motivate them to eat it. For the husbands who do not cook this recipe is ideal as it requires no cooking in its preparation.

It is well eaten as a side dish during the meals and also as a mid afternoon snack. Give it to the fussy eaters; you will have no problem getting the to eat it. You can make the cutlets smaller so that it can become a type of finger food. In case you find it too oily press it between a newspaper or dab it with some tissue. It is a good snack and will be a hit with all your friends.