Aren’t these cute looking tikkis little different in shape? Well that is what makes them attractive for kids to enjoy!! It become tricky sometimes to feed your kids healthy food as they don’t find interesting when compared to all those cheesy pizzas,colorful burgers and fried donuts. I always try to cook healthy food in my kitchen, by healthy I am not saying diet or weight watcher food always ,but a food that is healthy in nutrition. 
Today, for evening snack I wanted to make something with oats and wanted my kids to enjoy the snack as well. Well my sons are not very fond of Aloo tikkis( Potato Patties) and if I added oats what would happen? I was not sure whether they will like it or not…..
Well, I thought of giving the plain tikkis a little donuty shape so as to make them attractive for my kids. I shaped them like a donuts or ring with the help of a chop stick and then after shallow frying them, I stacked them into a celery stick and then poured a dash of tomato ketchup all over.
These Tikkis turned out to be very delicious and yes my kids loved them. the tikkis have oats, Potato, peas, rice, grated paneer, and cilantro. A very healthy combination pf protein, fiber, and carbs. Oats are very healthy in fiber and protein and we must include oats in regular diet.
lets proceed with the recipe
- 3/4 cup Plain Oats
- 1 medium boiled Potato
- 1/2 cup boiled rice ( optional)
- 1/2 cup boiled peas
- 2 tbsp brown bread crumbs( home made or store bought)
- 1/2 grated low fat Paneer
- 1 tbsp ginger Chilly paste
- 1 tsp cumin powder
- 1/2 tsp Red chili powder
- 1/2 tsp Chat Masala
- salt to taste
- 1/2 cup of chopped Cilantro
- 1tbsp of oil for shallow frying
- celery sticks to stack the tikkis ( optional)
- Heat a non stick pan on medium flame, and dry roast the oats for few minutes. Take the oats out in a plate and let them cool.
- Once the oats are cold, grind them into a fine powder in a dry spice grinder or a coffee grinder.
- In a big bowl, mash the boiled potato, cooked rice, and boiled peas together using a potato masher or a fork.
- Add ginger chili paste, red chili powder, salt, bread crumbs .cumin powder and chat masala. Now add the oats flour, paneer and chopped cilantro.
- Mix all of these to make a dough. If you think the dough is dry add few drops of water.
- Now take a lemon sized portion of this dough and roll it to make a ball. Press it gently to give a disc shape
- Using a chop stick or any other blunt ended object such as pencil. skew stick or you rclean finger, make a hole in the center of the tikki. Keeping the chopstick or finger in the center, push the tikii outward to make the hole bigger. the shape should be like in the picture.
- In a non stick pan heat the oil, and shallow fry the tikkis on both sides till they are golden brown on both sides.
- Take a clean celery stick and stack 4-5 tikkis in a single celery stick and serve these delicious tikkis with red tomato ketchup and enjoy!!!
- To Make these tikkis more healthier you can add some more vegetables of your choice like chopped spinach, carrots, beans etc.
- Fry them on a medium heat until crisp on both sides. Also to make them for weight waters you can skip adding rice in the mixture.
HEALTH TIP OF THE DAY!!
Potatoes are not unhealthy and they don’t increase the weight if you eat them in potion and cook them the right way. Either bake or boil them and avoid eating fried potatoes.
If you keep portion sizes in check—no more than one medium potato in a given meal—and eat the fiber-rich skin, potatoes make a satisfying, low-cal, nutrient-rich side dish,” says Michelle Dudash, RD, a Gilbert, AZ-based nutritionist.
Very nutritious recipe..tried out today…just came out awesome. Everybody loved it. ?
Tried it today…turned out delicious and love it fact that’s it’s a whole meal by itself. The Tikki turned out a little dry/hard do you have any suggestions/tips to improve. I plan to pack this for my toddlers lunch want to make sure it remains soft until lunchtime. Thanks again
Thanks Poonam!If you are making for kids, you can increase the quantity of potatoes and also you can add paneer to the tikkis.They should remain soft this way. Hope this helps you.
Looks yum!