Healthy Wheat Germ Cutlets

Ingredients:

1 cup toasted wheat germ
1 cup soya flour
2 large potatoes, boiled and mashed well
1 bunch spinach finely chopped
1/2 medium bottle gourd grated
1 carrot grated
1 onion finely chopped
1" piece ginger crushed
5-6 garlic flakes crushed
3 green chillies finely chopped
salt to taste
oil to shallow fry


Directions:

1. Press out all excess water from bottle gourd. Press out all moisture from spinach, by
2. dabbing in the fold of a napkin.
3. Take potatoes in a large mixing bowl. Add all vegetables, garlic, chillies, ginger and
4. salt.
5. Sprinkle half soya flour and wheat germ over ingredients.
6. Make a thin paste of remaining soya flour. Add a pinch or salt, keep aside.
7. Mix all ingredients of bowl by hand, to form a soft lump.
8. Take portions of mixture, form cutlets shaping as desired.
9. Refrigerate for 10 minutes, or till required, covering with a moist cloth.
10. Dip each pattie in soya flour paste, and roll in remaining wheat germ.
11. Shallow fry a few at a time in a greased skillet, till golden on both sides.
12. Serve hot with sauce or chutneys.