These Spinach Corn Tikis are a healthy and delicious take on any snack or appetizer.
Start with boiling the potatoes and blanching the spinach leaves. Steam corn kernels.
In a food processor, add blanched spinach, green chili, lemon juice, black peppercorns, garlic cloves, cilantro, cumin seeds, onion seeds (kalonji), ginger and a little salt to taste. Puree this into a smooth paste.
Now in a mixing bowl, add the boiled potatoes, spinach paste, chaat masala, 1/2 cup breadcrumbs, corn kernels, a dash of black pepper powder and salt to taste.
Break the potatoes and mix everything well. Check the seasoning at this point.
Shape them into small bite size tikis.
Dip each tiki in the remaining 1 cup breadcrumbs.
Place the tikis on a heated nonstick pan and fry them till they are golden brown on each side.
Tikkis are ready to serve. While serving sprinkle some chat masala on them and have them with your favorite ketchup or chutney.