Vegetable Cutlet Recipe

Mixed Vegetable Cutlets popularly known as mix veg cutlets are perfect teatime snack. Inspired from Bengali vegetable Chop these are perfect vegetarian snack to serve as a afternoon snack or as appetiser for social get togethers. 

Bake them, air fry them or deep fry them the vegetable cutlets are excellent snack, appetisers or veg starters to serve along with green chutney or sauce.  

These vegetable cutlets are great is quick snack to have in freezer. You can bake them, air fry or deep fry these cutlets, any which way they taste amazing.

If you love those Delhi bakeries Veg cutlets these are the ones. Perfect crunch of chopped veggies in every bite and creaminess of paneer and spiced mashed potatoes and crunchy crispy outside. These are a perfect monsoon snack for you to enjoy.

So boil a pot of masala chai or ginger chai and fry some cutlets to enjoy when next time you have a downpour or enjoying your afternoon tea in balmy winter Sun. 

Veg Cutlet Ingredients

Vegetable cutlet recipe is quite flexible. I use a variety of vegetables depending upon the availability and season.

Vegetables for cutlet: Base is always of boiled mashed potatoes. Other than that I use, carrots, peas, grated beetroot, onions and fresh herbs.

Spices and Seasonings: Fresh herbs like mint, green coriander, coriander powder, cumin powder, and chaat masala powder.

Add Ons: Paneer for some creamy texture. If you like to make vegan cutlets you can tofu or mushroom and skip paneer. 

Bread crumbs for binding and coating. 

Oil for Frying or Air Frying

How To Make Vegetable Cutlets?

First step is making Potato and veggie mixture for cutlets.

In a pan heat up a tablespoon oil. Add chopped onion, grated ginger and chopped green chill.  Cook them for 2 minutes on medium heat.

Add in spices now, coriander powder, salt to taste, black pepper powder, red chilli powder, garam masala powder.

Add a couple of tablespoons of water to prevent burning of the spices. Add in boiled peas, chopped and boiled carrots, chopped paneer or tofu and saute for 2 minutes.

Add in boiled and mashed potatoes and mix with the vegetables. Switch off the heat and add chopped coriander. Mix and allow the mixture to cool down.

Meanwhile, Prepare a thin paste by mixing maida/all purpose flour or gram flour, salt and water.

Prepare small cutlets of the vegetable cutlet mix. First, dip them in the Thin watery paste and roll them over the bread crumbs. Press the cutlets lightly so that the bread crumbs stick to them.

I prefer to use Panko bread crumbs for a nice crispy textur. You can also use use crushed cornflakes, semolina or rava or crushed papad and pan fry the cutlets or air fry them .

How to Make Vegetable Cutlets {Video} 

Recipe Notes and Tips to make Best Cutlets

• Chop vegetables in small size. You can chop them with knife or use a food processor. Make sure not to pulse them too fine. 
• After boiling drain carrots and peas nicely and while frying make sure to dry up any water if there.
• You can pre-boil vegetables and potatoes and keep them in fridge. 
• If you are deep frying or pan frying make sure oil is nicely heated to good smoking point for perfect frying. You can read these 5 tips to Deep fry for perfect texture and less oil absorption.
• You can also Air-fry these cutlets. I would not recommend baking in oven though.
• You can make cutlets in microwave if your microwave has slim-fry function which is a kind of Air fry only.

To Make Vegetable Cutlets Gluten-Free

There are two ways you can make them gluten-free.

1. Replace All purpose flour with thin paste of gram flour which is gluten-free.
2. If you substitute bread crumbs with crispy puffed rice (murmura in hindi) you can make them gluten-free. Or use gluten-free bread crumbs which are available in the super markets these days. 

How To Serve Cutlets

If you have frozen cutlets which you made ahead, it becomes super easy to make them. 

Serve them with some mint-coriander green chutney, sweet and spicy Apple chutney,  tomato chutney or even tomato ketchup.

Can Freeze these Vegetable Cutlets? 

Yes you can make these cutlets ahead and freeze them.  So I always make some extra and freeze them. When we want a quick snack it's so easy to take out few cutlets and fry them or air fry them and enjoy them with our tea or coffee. 

How To Freeze These Veg Cutlets?

To freeze them, Shape them and prepare them till final step except deep frying or air frying. Lay them flat on a tray or plate in a single layer and place it in the freezer.

After 2-3 hours when they are completely frozen take them out and pack nicely in a freezer safe container or ziplock bag. 

How to Fry Frozen Cutlets?

Do not thaw before frying. You will end up soggy and broken pieces. After taking them out of freezer straight way put them in air fryer or hot oil and fry as mentioned in recipe card below.

More Cutlet Recipes that You Can Try

Crispy Paneer bites,

Air Fryer Broccoli and Cheese Nuggets

Soya Cutlets 

Cheese Potato Shotz

Matar Paneer Cutlets

Masoor Dal/Red Lentil Cutlets

Rajma Tikki Recipe

Matar Paneer Cutlets

Paneer Ki Tikki

Originally Published on 18 June 2018. Updated with new information on 30June 2020.