Preparation time : 35-40 minutes
Cooking Time : 25 – 30minutes
Serves : 4 members
Description
Deconstructed cutlet pie . I first came across this deconstrution of a dish in a satellote tv channel competition held among chefs . At first I didn’t understand what it meant , mainly because most of the dishes deconstructed by the chefs were new to me . Only after watching a few episodes , my mind suck in the real concept . It’ s just that you have to use the same ingredients used for a dish and reconstruct it to another form . Simple but you have to be innovative , that’s the key to deconstructed. I will not take credit for this dish as I came across this recipe in a food blog called mallu kitchen run by Reshma Nooh of Cochin . Tried it and wolla it was yum . I have used brown bread for the base as I was out of stock of white bread . It tasted exactly like cutlet but was served in pie form . Have to mention how one naned dish mean different things around the globe . Wired but its true . CUTLET in lndia means the round (or any desired shaped ) patties mainly made with potato mixed with other ingredients of choice , coated in bread crumbs and shallow fried . But the same word CUTLET in Australia means a find cut part of meat with its bone neatly carved (we call it as mutton chops in lndia ) . So folks where ever you are make sure the dish in mind is what you think it is . ….
Ingredients
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Bread | 10 slices ( edges cut and cut small circles in the size that fit exactly into your muffin tray or ramekins ) |
| Butter | to grease and to dot |
| Egg | 1 |
| Cutlet mixture | 3 cups |
| Mashed potato mixture | 3 cups |
Ingredients for cutlet mixture
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| potato | 1/2 kg ( boiled , peeled and mashed ) |
| chicken | 200 gm (boneless ) |
| Turmeric powder | 1/4 tea spoon |
| onion | 3 chopped |
| garam masala powder | 1/4 tea spoon |
| green chillies | 4 crushed |
| ginger garlic paste | 1/2 tea spoon |
| chilli flakes | 1 tea spoon |
| coriander leaves | 2 table spoon chopped |
| mint leaves | 1 table spoon chopped pepper |
| salt | to taste |
| lime juice | 1/2 lime |
Method for cutlet mixture
- boil chicken with turmeric powder , ginger garlic paste and salt to taste . Cook till dry n shred the chicken .
- Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a non stick kadai . Add onions and green chillies and fry to translucent .
- Add all the other ingredients one by one except for lime . Sauté till all the flavours infuse together .
- Remove from flame and add lime juice .Mix well taste and adjust set aside and cool .
- can substitute chicken with mutton keema or fish . Vegetarians can add paneer , soya chunks or more veggies like carrot , beet root , cauliflower , cabbage , beans , green peas and capsicum .
Ingredients for potato mash
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| potatoes | 400 grams |
| butter chopped | 20 grams |
| hot milk | 1/4 cup |
| Salt | to taste |
| Pepper | to taste |
| Chilli flakes | to taste |
| Maida | 1 tablespoon |
Method for potato mash
- Peel potatoes and cut into large pieces . Cook in a large saucepan of boiling salted water for 20 minutes or until very tender but not falling apart.
- Drain potatoes well. Return to saucepan over low heat.
- Shake pan gently until any remaining water evaporates. Using a potato masher, roughly mash potatoes.
- Add butter , maida and hot milk , to potatoes. Beat with a wooden spoon until fluffy. Season with salt , chilli flakes and pepper . Set aside .
How to proceed
- Pre heat an oven to 180 degree Celsius .
- Grease a muffin tray or ramekins with butter . Place the bread circles on the bottom . Dot with butter . Mix the egg with the cutlet masala .
- Top about 1 1/2 tablespoons of the cutlet mixture over the bread . Level it . Dot with butter .
- Pipe the potato mash over the cutlet layer or can just spread evenly over . Finally dot with butter .
- Bake in the pre heated oven for 20 to 30 minutes until you get a golden crust on top . Remove and cool .
- Run a knife around . Turn into a plate . Place the cutlet pie straight with the potato mash layer on top .
- Serve hot with tomato sauce or any dip of your choice .
- vegetarians can avoid adding one beaten egg and chicken ( add veggies , soya chunks or paneer instead ) to the cutlet mixture and follow the same recipe for the veg version .
- Leave the vegetarian cutlet mixture a bit moist , so after you bake your cutlet pie does not turn dry .
