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Banana cutlet prepared using banana and potato as primary ingredients, is nutritious as well as delicious snack item which can easily be prepared in not more than 30 minutes. It is one of the yummy Indian recipes whose recipe is as follows.

Ingredients required to prepare banana cutlet are as follows:

• 4 raw bananas
• 2 potatoes
• 3 tablespoons bread crumbs
• 1 1/2 tablespoons dry mango powder
• 5 finely chopped green chilies
• Oil
• Salt

Procedure to prepare banana cutlet include the following steps:

• Firstly peel off potatoes and bananas.
• Pressure cook the peeled potatoes and bananas on low flame for about 5 minutes.
• Take out the steamed bananas and potatoes from the pressure cooker and smash them.
• Keep the smashed mix in a bowl. Add salt, chopped green chilies and mango powder to the above mix and mix well.
• Apply some oil to both the palms. Take some portion of the mixture and roll it on the palms. Then press the roll to make it into the normal cutlet shape.
• Now roll the prepared cutlets in the bread crumbs.
• Take the oil in a pan and heat it. When the oil gets heated up, fry the prepared cutlets till they become golden brown.
• Place the cutlets on the tissue and serve the hot banana cutlets either with tomato sauce or with mint sauce.

Banana cutlets are nutritious as they are rich in fiber, vitamin C and vitamin B6 that help to reduce the risk of heart strokes. This food item can easily be digested as it contains less fat content in it. This snack item is also beneficial to the growing children. Instead of eating the banana as it is which some children doesn’t like, its better to prepare this cutlet so that children enjoy the great taste of it and can also get the great health benefits of banana too.