Vegetable Bullets (Crispy Vegetable Snacks) Recipe

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Vegetable Bullets

Delicious, Crunchy, and Nutritious Evening Snacks

Looking for an easy yet delicious and healthy finger food for children? Certainly, vegetable bullets are your option.

I am referring here to the crunchy and tasty fake bullets! These bullets are filled with veggies and carry a lot of nutrients.

An Overview of Making Vegetable Bullets:

Firstly, you have to make a dough with veggies, flour, and spices. Next, make bullet-shapes with the dough. Next, fry them in oil. Vegetable bullets are ready!

Munch them hot with a sauce.

Now, I share the detailed recipe with you.

Cook Time

Ingredients

• 2 cups potato, boiled, mashed
• 1/2 cup carrot, grated
• 1/4 cup beet root, grated
• 1/4 cup cabbage, finely chopped
• 1/4 cup fresh peas, crushed
• 1/2 inch ginger, minced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 3 green chillies, minced
• 3 tsp custard powder
• 1/8 piece nutmeg powder, crushed, optional
• 1/2 tsp pepper powder
• 4 tsp all purpose flour/maida
• salt, as per taste
• oil, for deep frying
• 4 tbsp bread crumbs, for dusting
• 1 1/2 tbsp fine rava/semolina, for dusting

Instructions

1. Make a coarse paste of green chilies, ginger, garlic, and peas. Keep aside.
2. Combine mashed potato, grated carrot and beetroot, chopped cabbage, custard powder, all-purpose flour, pepper powder, nutmeg powder, salt, and coarse paste. No need to add water. Prepare a firm dough.
3. Divide the dough into 15 equal portions. Shape each portion like a bullet. Keep ready all the bullet shapes.
4. Mix bread crumbs and semolina in a tray.
5. Heat the oil for deep frying. Dust each bullet with bread crumbs-semolina mixture. Drop 5-6 such bullets into the medium hot oil. Fry them for 3-4 minutes or till they turn brownish.
6. Remove them, and place them on a paper towel. This way, make all the bullets. Serve hot bullets with tomato sauce. Happy eating!

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Health encyclopedia - Quiz time

For each question, choose the best answer. The answer key is below.

1. Is between-meals snacks can help you get the nutrients which you might have deprived at meal time?
   • True
   • False
2. Dairy products are the only products that provide calcium
   • True
   • False
3. Which of the following oil is best to avoid
   • Canola
   • Palm
4. Which of the following has lowest fat content?
   • Chocolate brownie
   • Cherry cheese cake
5. Whether using margarine instead of butter in butter cookies makes it healthier?
   • Yes
   • No
6. Is reducing the quantity of sugar and butter in a cookie recipe makes it healthier?
   • Yes
   • No

Answer Key

1. True
2. False
3. Palm
4. Chocolate brownie
5. Yes
6. Yes

Interpreting Your Score

If you got between 0 and 1 correct answer: average

If you got between 2 and 3 correct answers: moderate

If you got 4 correct answers: good

If you got 5 correct answers: very good

If you got 6 correct answers: excellent!!