Cheesy Vegetable Fingers

Most kids enjoy cheesy snacks and don’t frown when they see one. Cheesy Vegetable Fingers is the perfect snack for your kids’ tiffin box, in which you can pack all the vegetables you wish too as well. It can also be served as a party appetizer. It is basically an alternative to the vegetable cutlet recipe – it is shaped like fingers. filled with some cheese, coated with breadcrumbs and then can be fried in oil or air-fried to make it a little heathier.

What I love most about these recipes like cutlets is that you can prepare and shape these in bulk and then freeze them. That ways you can always have a batch ready to be fried whenever you need. With a couple of such make-ahead snacks, you do not have to think too much on what to pack in your kids’ school snack box.

These Cheesy Vegetable Fingers also are a fantastic finger food for kids for their party appetizer as well as outdoor picnics. Winters are nearing and that’s when you seriously crave for some hot soups or hot crisp munchies – so how about making a batch of these vegetable fingers to take care of such cravings!

Cheesy Vegetable Fingers

Course: SnacksCuisine: UncategorisedDifficulty: Easy

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

15

minutes

Cooking time

20

minutes

Total time

35

minutes

Cheesy Vegetable Fingers is the perfect snack for your kids’ tiffin box, in which you can pack all the vegetables you wish too as well.

Ingredients

• Sweet Corn – 1/4 cup

• Frozen Green Peas – 1/4 cup

• Carrot – a small piece, chopped

• Onion – 1 small

• Green Chilli – 1, cut into few pieces

• Ginger – a 1/4-inch piece

• Garlic – 3-4 cloves

• Oil

• Potatoes – 2, boiled and mashed

• Chilli Powder – 1/2 tsp (optional)

• Cumin Powder – 1/2 tsp

• Amchur Powder – 1 tsp

• Schezwan Sauce – 2 tsp (optional)

• Garam Masala Powder – 1/2 tsp

• Salt – 1 tsp

• Coriander Leaves – 2 tbsp, chopped

• Bread Crumbs for binding (if needed)

• Mozarella Cheese Sticks – 8 pieces

• For coating and frying

• All-purpose Flour – 1/4 cup

• Water

• Bread Crumbs – 1/4 cup

• Oil for frying

Directions

• In a food processor or vegetable chopper, add sweet corn, peas, carrot, onion, green chilli, ginger and garlic and chop finely. In a pan, heat some oil.
• To this, add all the chopped vegetables and saute on high flame till partially cooked. Add the mashed potatoes along with chilli powder, cumin powder, amchur powder, schezwan sauce, garam masala, salt and coriander leaves. Mix it all well. Turn off the heat. If the mix looks very soft or wet, add some bread crumbs to bind it together.
• Once the mixture cools down a little, take small balls and shape into a long finger. Press a piece of cheese stick in the center and cover it properly with the vegetable mix. Make all the vegetable fingers like this.
• Make a slurry with flour and water. Dip the vegetable fingers in the flour slurry to coat it properly and then roll it in the bread crumbs. Deep fry, shallow fry or air fry these vegetable fingers and serve it with some ketchup.

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