Aloo Tikki Burger

Aloo Tikki Burger I आलू टिक्की बर्गर I Veg Burger Recipe

Aloo tikki burger is a delicious burger made with boiled potatoes, carrot and green peas with some Indian spices. It is a very popular recipe.

Ingredients – Interesting facts

Chilli

Carrot

Carrot is a root vegetable.
Carrots have seeds.
Beta-carotene is released during cooking carrots, which makes carrot even more nutritious.
Holtville, California is known as “Carrot Capital of the World”.

Mango:

Mango is one of the ancients’ fruit found in India. It is said that around 5000 years ago, the Cultivation of Mango started in Eastern Asia.
Mango is delicious and considered as “King of Fruits”.
India is termed as the “Mango Capital of the World” as it tops the list of Mango producing countries.
In 2010, Bangladesh declared the Mango tree as its National Tree.
Mango is National furit of India, Pakistan, and the Philippines.
Some mango tree species can live up to 300 years and continuously produce fruit.

Ginger

Ginger is a rhizome (an underground stem) and not a root.
India is the largest producer of Ginger.
In India, use of ginger in medicine goes back to ancient times.
Its generic name is “Zingiber”. It is derived from the Greek word “zingiberis”, which comes from the Sanskrit name of the spice, “singabera”.

Garlic

The intense smell and pungent taste of garlic comes from the large quantity of sulphur in it.
It has a great importance in Ayurveda.
Garlic is one of the oldest food flavorings used in ancient times.
Garlic is one of the oldest cultivated crops.
National Garlic Day is celebrated on April 19th in USA.

Cumin seeds

Salt

Salt is the most common ingredient in our kitchen.
It is present in each and every cell of our body.
Its Latin name is Sal from which the word “salary” is derived. It is believed that in the ancient times, the roman soldiers were paid in salt.
It is essential for life, but its excess intake poses health risk.

Black peppercorns

Black Pepper comes from the dried fruit peppercorn.
Black Pepper is mainly produced in India, Vietnam, Brazil and Indonesia.
Black Peppercorns are green when harvested, and change color while drying.
Pepper loses its flavor and aroma through evaporation. For the best flavor, it may be right before consumption.
As it was so expensive, it was mostly eaten by the wealthy in the past.

Tomato

It is the state vegetable of New Jersey.
Its juice is state beverage of Ohio.
Tomato seedlings have been grown in space.
The world’s largest tomato tree was grown in the experimental greenhouse at Walt Disney World Resort.
Tomatoes aren’t always red. They can be yellow, pink, purple, black and even white.
La Tomatina is an annual festival in Spain, where people throw tomatoes at each other.

Onion

The oldest know onion harvest dates back to around 5,000 BC, over 7,000 years ago!
The sulfuric compounds in onions cause is to cry when we chop them. Chilling it before cutting reduced this effect.
It was used by Athletes and soldiers in ancient civilizations as a source of power.
These are some of the oldest vegetables that were used by the first modern civilizations.

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Aloo Tikki burger