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Here am with a lovely edible bird nest snack recipe. Birds nest candy and birds nest cookies are very popular and common among most of us. But this is something different. Here am sharing the recipe of a lovely delicious spicy snack with mashed potato and chicken filling shaped like a birdsnest. Hope you all really enjoyed this recipe. Do try this healthy snack recipe and make your kids happy. For sure, they will crave for more.
INGREDIENTS
Potatoes - 3 nos
Roasted semiya / thin vermicelli - 1 cup ( crushed with hands)
Onion - 1, small, finely sliced
Green chili -2, thinly chopped
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - half tsp
Pepper powder - 1 tsp
Minced/shredded chicken - half a cup
Egg -1
Curry leaves
Salt
Oil
PREPARATION
- Pressure cook unpeeled potatoes with little salt until 3 whistles.
- Remove its skin and mash it finely. Set aside.
- Now prepare the filling by sauteing onion, chilies, turmeric powder, pepper powder, ginger garlic paste, minced/shredded chicken and curry leaves. Add required salt and keep it aside.(same like samosa/cutlet fillings).
- Make a small ball with the mashed potatoes and press gently in the middle with your fingers.
- Now put the fillings in the center and cover the filling with that mashed potato itself.
- Make round shaped small balls and then give a small press in the middle and shape it like a birds nest. Keep it aside.
- Prepare an egg batter by beating egg with salt.
- Dip each potato balls in the egg batter and then coat it with fried/roasted vermicelli or semiya.
- Heat oil in a deep bottomed nonstick fry pan and put each semiya covered balls in it carefully.
- Do not overheat or overcook, as it will make cracks in potato balls.
- Better fry 2 or 3 potato balls at a time.
- Drain the excess oil using tissue paper.
- Serve hot with tomato chutney.
