Today was quite an exciting day, one that I was looking forward to for a while. I have been off blogging for a few months now due to various personal reasons and despite having many commitments, I was simply determined to go and meet everyone. I have to put on record here that I bravely drove many miles to make it there as I was I think the only one from the other side of town.
We had such a blast all trying to guess who the others were (Confession- I had not done my homework well and was struggling a little bit in this department) but all in all it was great catching up with everyone. It ended up being a warm gathering of friends, rather than strangers meeting for the first time. Internet anonymity is all very well but there is definitely something to be said about old fashioned "in person" meeting
Now the all important topic of food. It was so yummy and I think everyone quite lived up to why they were blogging about food. Each dish on the table tasted sumptuous with mouth watering dishes. I needed to immediately take a 5 mile walk to burn off all the extra calories I must have put on eating all that. Fortunately I am off sweets, so that was one less sin I had to worry about. I made Aloo Tikkis as a starter as the food was going to be predominantly Indian.
Now for the Aloo Tikkis. They are one of the simplest yet scores very high on the satisfaction scale.
For about 20 tikkis you will need the following ingredients:
1 Kg Potatoes ( boiled, peeled and mashed)
2 tbsp Coriander leaves
4 green chillis chopped up really fine
2 slices bread
1 tsp jeera powder
1 tsp red chilli powder
1 & 1/2 tsp amchur powder ( dry mango powder)
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
salt to taste
1/4 cup Maida ( all purpose flour) mixed in 1/4 cup water to make a coating paste
Bread crumbs
Oil to deep fry.
Method:
Boil, peel and mash the potatoes.
Crumble the bread slices and mix it in as well along with the coriander leaves and green chillis.
Add the dry powders to this.
Shape into tikkis and dip into the coating batter then place in a plate which contains the bread crumbs to liberally coat it.
Deep fry and serve hot along with green chtuney/sweet tamarind chutney/tomato ketchup.
9 comments:
That is a lovely looking platter of tikkis there...neat pic as well :)
Hi Kamini! Nice meeting you in the flesh as well! And nice post. Just put up my version of the events.
Plate of tikkis looks absolutely yummy. Nice reading different versions of the meet.
Ah..those were real yummy ones!..thanks for bringing along..and it was fun meeting!
Looks like lot of fun you had there!:))
Anu, These were so much like the real thing, honest to god.... Sure thing for the next meeting..
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