Aloor Chop (Potato Patty)

Aloo'r chop is one of the quintessential bengali snack or street food. It will be hard to find a bengali who hadn't had aloo'r chop with tea and muri (murmura or puffed rice) during an evening chit chat session (or 'adda' as called in bengali). 

The concept of chop and muri was original to the north part of Kolkata, with chop or fried patties ranging from potato to vegetable, to banana flower, eggs, to mutton, to bread and so on. The patty is usually dipped in a batter and deep fried. for this particular recipe I made this a little healthy by adding some vegetables. 

Ingredients:
About 4 big potatoes
1 tsp mustard oil
3 tsp roasted spice blend (coriander, cumin, dried chili, roasted and blended)
1/2 onion chopped
1 1/2 tsp ginger chopped
2 chopped green chilis
1/2 cup cabbage thinly sliced
Salt to taste

For the batter

• 3 tbsp gram flour
• 3 tbsp rice flour
• 1 tsp cumin powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• Pinch of salt

Recipe:

• Preparing the potato
• Boil the potatoes and mash as finely as possible
• Heat some oil, and add the chopped onions and fry well until translucent
• Add the ginger and green chilis and fry
• Set the heat high, add the cabbage and fry until completely dry
• Add salt and the spices, stir to blend everything well
• Let it cool down and make small balls and then press a little to give it a flatter look

(You can add a little flour if you need to make the potato balls tighter)  

• Make the batter by mixing all the above mentioned ingredient. The batter needs to be very thick
• Heat some oil for deep frying
• Dip the potato balls in the batter and deep fry

Serve with muri or tea.