CHIREY O ALOOR TIKKI

This was part of our dinner last night. Not that I did not have cooked food in the refrigerator but I wished for some snacks on our dinner plate. The reasons are a few. Two of our childhood buddy had / have their birthdays; yesterday and today. I must blog about something the entire classroom can sit together and enjoy. Today is not the day I should blog about the tamarind chicken I so enjoyed. Come on, some of them are friends since age three, long before I stepped into that institution. I did not wish to go ahead with the "doi pomfret or lau diye chingrir patla jhol" because the virtual world seems a big family connected together over some common interest. The birthday boys would have loved to have some "dimer jhol" but it was the same classroom they left and thereafter entered a "Gujju girl" who fed me bread upma / pulao for the first time in life, I so loved.  I had to go vegetarian but not with "pat patar jhol." Also, my family has to be taken in. 

Since yesterday morning, I was planning this. I went out for my walk, did some groceries, came back and took shower. Me and Cristine again set out for the Indian super mart to pick up certain things, bought more unnecessary stuffs; I mean did I at all require that tamarind sauce and Bakharwadi? I prepare better tamarind sauce at home. We had a very late lunch about which I would want to talk in a public post, we were back home around 6pm. After that, doing the  preparations for this vegetarian snack with flattened rice, potato, green pea, corn, chillies, spices CHIREY O ALOOR TIKKI was not a big deal. The only loss was I had to skip my swimming session, I was not willing to go for it either. So long the government or the condo management are allowing us to use it, I would. This island is managed by very efficient people at all levels; I trust them.

The man came home yesterday with the news of "work from home" for quite sometime now. Such a fear has taken over us I could not rejoice and say "ki moja!". It sincerely feels that I want everything to get back to normal; let people work, eat, merry, travel freely. This is the man who from day one has asked me not to gulp all the news coming from different quarters but to follow the instructions of the WHO site.

INGREDIENTS :

FLATTENED / BEATEN RICE / CHIREY : 100-150GM
POTATO : 2MEDIUM SIZED
GREEN PEA : 2TBSP
SWEET CORN : 2TBSP
RAISIN : 11/2TBSP
CHOPPED ONION : 1TBSP
CHOPPED GREEN CHILLI : 1TBSP
CHOPPED CORIANDER : 1SMALL TEA CUP
CUMIN SEED : 1/2TSP
CUMIN POWDER : 1TSP
CORIANDER POWDER : 1TSP
AAMCHOOR POWDER : 2TSP
TURMERIC POWDER : 1/4TSP
SALT : AS REQUIRED
OIL : 3TBSP + FEW DROPS TO GREASE THE OVEN PROOF PLATE OR 2TBSP IF YOU PAN SEAR

PROCEDURE :

Wash the beaten rice well and drain the water totally.

Wash, boil, peel and mash the potatoes well.

We have discarded the roots of the coriander, chopped and washed them. 

We have discarded the two ends, peeled and washed one medium sized onion; chopped it. 

We have washed and chopped 3-4 green chillies. We have washed the green peas and sweet corns too. 

We will wash and soak the raisins in hot water for 1/2 an hour.

Following are the few spices we are using, forgot to click the oil pot.

Heat the oil in a pan and temper with the cumin seeds. Add the chopped onion & chillies and stir for 3-4 minutes.

Discard the water from the raisins and add to the wok along with the sweet corns, green peas, turmeric powder.

Stir well for 2-3 minutes and add the washed chirey / beaten rice. Add a little of salt and stir cook for 2 minutes or so.

Now, we can add the chopped coriander and fold in well.

Thereafter, we shall add the boiled & mashed potatoes, cumin+coriander+aamchoor powders, adjust the salt and fold in very well. We will continue to stir cook for another 3-4 minutes.

The entire cooking has to be done at low heat. 

We shall transfer the mixture to a plate to cool down a bit.

We will grease an oven proof plate with little amount of oil, then prepare medium sized balls and flatten between palms. Place them on the plate.

If you have a convection mode oven as mine, place the low height, wired stand inside. We shall place the metal plate atop it.

We will cook one side in the microwave+ grill mode for 8 minutes & take out.

We will turn over and cook in the same mode again for 4-5 minutes. We should be done.

If you are doing in a pan; heat 2tbsp oil in a pan and place the tikkis, cook each side until lightly brown or more if you want.

I served them fresh & hot with a choice of sauce or chutney!