This evening on Masterchef one of the contestants cooked in a London Indian restaurant. He was making a potato cake with a spicy filling - it looked like it had peas in it as well as other vegetables. Does anyone know what it was and more importantly - does anyone have a recipe?

Thanks v much

Sorry didn't see the programme but could it be something like -

Potato Balls

Steve

Here is a recipe that I came up with for potato patties stuffed with chickpea chutney:

Make up a batch of mashed potatoes or you can use instant potatoes, but make them on the dry side. Set aside. Make up a batch of chickpea chutney by first putting a 15-16 oz. can of chickpeas and half of its liquid into a food processor. Add 4-6 green chilies and puree. Set aside. In a large frying pan put 3 Table. oil, 1 tsp. black mustard seeds, 1 tsp. split white urad dal, 1/2 tsp. cumin seeds and 1 large dash methi (fenugreek) seeds. Heat over high heat and when the mustard seeds have popped a bit and when the urad dal has browned, add 1/8 tsp. hing and 1/4 tsp. minced garlic. Stir. Reduce heat to medium-low. Add the pureed chickpeas, salt to taste and 1/4 tsp. tamerind concentrate (tamcon) and mix well. Turn off heat and stir in chopped fresh cilantro. To make the stuffed patties: make a small potato pattie. Put some chutney on top of the pattie and cover with another potato pattie. Seal edges. Fry over medium heat in a nonstick frying pan using very little oil. Brown on both sides.

This is more of a southern style of dish. You can also make it up with a northern style chutney, a spicy mushroom filling or a spicy pea filling. Some vegetable curries can also be put in the middle, just make sure that the vegetable pieces are very small.

Hope that you enjoy this!

It is called Aloo Tikki. See 1) http://www.mamtaskitchen.com/recipe_display.php?id=10561 and 2) http://www.mamtaskitchen.com/recipe_display.php?id=10344. The first one can be stuffed with peas, sliced almonds, resins, coriander leaves etc. This is a very popular snack for vegetarian snack and quite easy to make. It is traditionally served with a green mango/coriander/mint chutney, as well as tamarind suace or chutney. All recipes are on this site.

Mamta