Appetizer – Potato Chop (Nepali Food Recipe)
(Potato Balls Stuffed with Meat)
INGREDIENTS
Casing:
- 5 cups potatoes, boiled and mashed
- 1/2 cup lentil paste
- 1/4 teaspoon asafetida
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- Salt and Pepper
Egg Wash:
- 5 large eggs, beaten
- 2 cups bread crumbs
- Oil for deep frying
Filling:
- 1 lb ground lamb
- 1 cup onion, grated
- 1 teaspoon garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon ginger paste
- 1 tablespoon hot chili paste
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1/2 cup scallion, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
- 2 tablespoons clarified butter
- Salt
DIRECTIONS
- In a non-stick saute pan, heat butter. Fry grated onion, garlic, ginger and chili until light brown.
- Add ground meat, soy sauce and black pepper.
- Stir constantly to brown.
- Add scallion just before taking off the heat. Reserve in a large plate to cool.
- In a food processor, combine all ingredients for the casing to a thick, smooth mass.
- With a wet hand take and flatten two tablespoons of the potato mixture on your palm, forming a little cup.
- Put in a tablespoon of filling mixture into the potato cup.
- Enclose the cup by bringing all edges to the center.
- Repeat with the remaining amount of potato and filling mixtures.
- Season the egg wash mixture and bread crumbs with salt and pepper.
- Dip a few stuffed potato chops into the egg wash mixture.
- Take out and transfer them to the bed of bread crumbs; dredge in to coat completely.
- Deep fry stuffed potato chops a few at a time.
- Serve with tomato achar.
Source: http://nepalicooking.tripod.com./appetizer.htm
Author: Tulsi Regmi