Wednesday 31 March 2010

Baked Bread & Chickpeas Cutlet With Bean Sprouts

We usually buy baguette (the french bread) atleast thrice a week, sometimes after having our dinner most of those bread slices will be sitting in my bread bag and they will turn hard like a rock..Usually i do bread toast with those bread slices, this time i soaked them water and and with some leftover cooked chickpeas, leftover bean sprouts i prepared a simple bread cutlet for our evening snacks, instead of shallow frying this cutlets i baked them in oven and with ketchup this baked bread cutlet vanished within few minutes, we enjoyed our baked protein packed and fabulous cutlets also all my leftovers turned our evening snacks quite a filling snack..This baked bread and chickpeas cutlet goes to Sunday Snacks-Healthy Snacks guest hosted by Divya of Dil Se..also goes to MLLA-21 guest hosted by Superchef, event by Susan and finalmy to Daisy Blue's CoL-Leftover Delicacies...


1no Baguette (cut as pieces)
1cup Cooked chickpeas
1no Onion(chopped)
1/4cup Bean sprouts
2nos Green chillies (chopped)
10nos Mint leaves (chopped)
5nos Curry leaves
1tsp Garam masala
Salt
Oil for baking

Soak the baguette pieces for few minutes,smash the cooked chick peas and clean the bean sprouts and mash with ur fingers, press the soaked baguette with ur palms to squeeze out the water, take the mashed baguettes,smashed chickpeas and the bean sprouts, chopped green chillies, curry leaves,chopped mint leaves, garam masala, salt in a large vessel, heat a few drops of oil, saute the chopped onions... add the sauteed onions to the bread-chickpeas mixture..

Preheat the oven to 350F, line a baking paper over a baking sheet, brush the baking sheet with oil, make medium size cutlets with the spiced bread and chickpeas mixture, gently brush the cutlets with some oil and bake the cutlets in middle rack for 20-25minutes..Enjoy the baked cutlets with ketchup..

43 Expert Thoughts:

J said...

nice use of the bread and left overs.. mouthwatering..

Swathi said...

Priya,

Bread cutlet looks really yummy.

Sarah Naveen said...

Healthy and yummy!!!

AnuSriram said...

Makes me drool... Perfectly made and looks delicious..

myspicykitchen said...

Nice idea and it is baked! Bread cutlet looks yummy1

Angie's Recipes said...

A very unique dish...and looks very tempting!

Meena said...

priya...romba azhaga irukku!!!

lovely cutlet and lovely ingredients...

Umm Razeen said...

lipsmacking cutlets. yummy yummy!

Panchpakwan said...

Cute cutlets...using bagutte in it is new to me...

Daisy Blue said...

The cutlet looks yummy especially when I'm just craving for an evening snack..nice presentation..you can send this to the leftover delicacies event in my blog if you like..

Sashi said...

Thats a nice idea, must try it sometime. Cutlet looks inviting !!

Please grad the award I have shared with u here. My hearty wishes to receive more Priya, Congrats !!

Akal's Saappadu said...

that's an excellent idea to use the left over baguettes Priya!!! no wonder they vanished in no time :) looks crunchy and delicious!!!

Madhuri said...

Yummy and crip cutlets. Love it.

Madhuri said...

Yummy and crip cutlets. Love it.

Madhuri said...

Yummy and crip cutlets. Love it.

Pavithra said...

Its as healthier as u get dear.. It looks crispy as well

Cool Lassi(e) said...

yummy healthy cutlet..with sprouts..very unique!I so wanna devour all of them

Swarnavalli Suresh said...

A health snack indeed

simply.food said...

This is alovely way to use up stale bread.I usually make mine into bread crumbs but this sounds good.

Cham said...

We use to cut into pieces and saute with butter and salt/pepper! They turn extremely great snack too! Love the cutlet idea!

Catherine said...

Oooh, this looks and smells yummy!

Nithu Bala said...

I'm drooling here..healthy and delicious..

Gita said...

I too have a hard time with leftover bread Priya...your baked cutlets sound fabulous...such an awesome idea and looks so good :)

Deepa said...

Very healthy and crunchy cutlets...Nice way to use stale breads...
Deepa
http://hamareerasoi.blogspot.com/

Rumana Rawat said...

Very healthy.. this something new to me.. but i looks very good... i like the sauce dot on u r plate :-)

Sook said...

Oh I love finding different ways to cook chickpeas! These look so delicious & healthy!

shubhada said...

Hi Priya, Please accept' Inspiration Award'. Your blog inspires me to try something new everyday. Thank you so much for this wonderful blog.
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Sushma Mallya said...

What a healthy way of eating cutlets, looks delicious priya and nice way to use baguette too..

Nandini said...

Indha cutletu pathu saliva nalla urudhu. Najamaave overflow aaidichu. Baingaramaana cutlet!

shanthi said...

Different and crispy

forkbootsandapalette said...

Yummy Yummy Yummy!!!!

SathyaSridhar said...

cutlet came out very perfect and very healthy option of eating baked foods,,,surprised cutlet with bread n leftovers simply superbb,,thanks for sharing dear,,take care n keep on smiling..

Tina said...

What a healthy cutlet dear.Looks dlicious...

Suma Rowjee said...

Protein packed baked cutlets sounds delicious!

sowmya's creative saga said...

yummy snack...

Mrs.Menagasathia said...

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divya said...

Yummy and crip cutlets. Love it.

Preeti Kashyap said...

bookmarked! yummy!

BangaloreBaker said...

Priya, that is an awesome and healthy snack. You can send this one too to my bake-off if you wish and Check out my new event and I hope to get some entries from you - http://versatilekitchen.blogspot.com/2010/04/baking-from-book-breakfast.html

You are one amazing woman do you know that?

jeyashrisuresh said...

as usuall ver creative priya.reminds me of the masala vadai

Curry Leaf said...

Yum Yum Love the cutlets.Delicious,

Yummy Team said...

Crispy and yummy cutlets..Great idea!

Vaishali Sharma said...

Nice Crispy Cutlets looks delicious and perfect for tea time snack. Cute presentation!