Easy and yummy chicken mince cutlets

This is a great easy-to-make recipe. It can be made before hand and stored in the freezer for a few days. You can thaw a few cutlets as and when you need them.

Ingredients :

1. About 300-500 gm chicken mince 
2. salt to taste
3. 3-4 red chillies (Whole)
4. tamarind one small ball
5. 2 tomatoes (finely chopped)
6. 2 big onions (finely chopped)
7. garlic - 15 pods (finely chopped or pounded in a mortar pestle).
8. ginger - little lesser than garlic (finely chopped or pounded in a mortar pestle).
9. Fine rava/semolina for coating the cutlets
10. Corriander/dhaniya/kothmir (finely chopped ).
11. Pinch of sugar (optional)
12. Bread crumbs (toasting the bread, cooling it and then crumbing it also gives the cutlets a different, lovely flavor).
13. Oil (about 1-2 tbsp)
14. Little water (1/8th cup, only if necessary)

Method: 

1.  Wash the mince gently. 
2. Then add  mince, salt, red chillies, tamarind, tomatoes, onions, garlic, ginger in a vessel (non-stick preferably). 
3. Cook covered for about 20 mins till the mince is cooked, and the water has dried out. (Add water only if necessary, else the cutlets will become soggy).
4. Check for sourness and saltiness. Adjust with salt, lime/vinegar if required. You can add a pinch of sugar of you like.
5. Once the mince cools, run it through  a mixer . It should be coarse in texture.
6. Next, in a bowl combine the mince, bread crumbs and corriander together.
7. Now, shape the mince into mini balls and then flatten them out into roundish /oval cutlets.
8. Now, lighlty coat them with  rava.
9. Heat some oil.
10. Shallow fry  the cutlets on each side till done.

* Freeze the rest of the cutlets. Shallow fry only the amount you actually require, freeze the rest.