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Stuff these appetizing patties with ground chicken (or any other minced meat of your choice) into a potato ball. In Mumbai, we typically used either ground chicken or goat meat. I made a round of seventeen patties all of which were polished off by my husband and 6-year old over the course of the weekend.
Preparation is simple if a little time-consuming. Cook the potatoes and ground meat separately along with some mild spices. Stuff the cooked meat into a mashed potato ball and deep fry. Make sure the the potato coating is well-sealed to ensure the patty stays whole while you fry them. Serve hot with green chutney or ketchup of your choice and enjoy!
Ingredients:
For the ground chicken:
- 1 pound or 454 grams of ground chicken
- 1 medium onion- chopped fine
- 1 green chilly- chopped fine
- 3 tablespoons – cleaned and finely chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 1/2 teaspoon garlic paste ( I prefer to zest it fresh)
- 1 teaspoon ginger paste (I prefer to zest it fresh using a microplane zester)
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
- 1/4 teaspoon red chilly powder
- 1/4 teaspoon garam masala powder
- 1 tablespoon lemon or lime juice
- salt to taste
For the potato covering:
- 4 medium sized red skin potatoes
- 6 -7 slices white bread slices with crust – soaked in water and then squeezed tightly to remove the water
- salt to taste
Method:
Boil the potatoes with the skin on until cooked through. Soak bread slices in water, drain and squeeze the water out of the bread completely. Peel and mash the potatoes and add the bread slices. Add salt to taste and keep aside. The bread helps bind the potato mixture and so the patties won’t break up while frying. 
Fry onions to a light brown color.
Add ginger and garlic paste and fry for a couple of seconds. Add the ground chicken, green chillies, fresh cilantro and fry this for 5 minutes breaking the ground chicken into small bits while stirring. Add the turmeric, red chilly powder, salt, cumin and coriander powder. Fry this for another 5 minutes on medium high, making sure to break up the ground chicken (they tend to clump up).
Do not add any water and cover and let it cook for 20 minutes on a medium flame. The onions will give off some water. Once cooked, uncover and let all the water dry. It is very important that the stuffing be dry so that it does not leak out from the patties. Add lemon juice and cool completely before stuffing.
Make small balls out of the potato mixture and flatten and shape to resemble a cup. Place 1 teaspoon of the ground cooked chicken and stuff .
Keep pressing the chicken down with the help of a spoon and then seal it well.
Heal oil in deep vessel. Fry 2 or 3 patties at a time. Do not over crowd as the temperature of the oil will drop. These turn out crispy on the outside because of the bread and soft inside with the delicious stuffing!
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I love foods that look plain on the outside and then when you open them you get a surprise on the inside.
Thank you. Me too!
I love fried potato balls. Stuffing them with meat is a clever idea – and makes it more hearty. Thanks for sharing Asmita!!
Thank you Yudith.
This looks nice. For vegetarians, like me even a coconut cilantro filling taste yum!
Hi Anjali,
Yes, that vegetarian stuffing sounds delicious. My mom would stuff them with coconut, fresh green peas and cilantro mixture. They do taste yummy!
I also love the outside layer of potatoes and all the nice goodies inside. My kids love the surprise and I like to hide some fun stuff in the patties (like mini tomatoes or quail egg on some patties). This sounds really delish!
Wow Nami,
That is really creative to hide a tomato or a quail egg. This particular recipe has been in my family for ages. I remember my mom making them at special occasions or for a tea party. Food holds so many memories. I am so glad I made these over the weekend. My husband and daughter wiped them out before I knew it.
The filling sounds so delicious! These would not last the hour in my house.
Thanks Anuradha,
I am making these again today by popular demand. My daughter absolutely loves this!
These sound wonderfully delicious! I bet addictive too!
yum!these sound terrific……….can’t wait to try them out.
Thanks Simran.
Looks fantastic! I love the perfect golden color on the coating. Just beautiful and I’m sure even more delicious!
Thank Kate.
Those look fabulous! I’ve made something similar, but with ground beef. I love your seasonings.
Thanks Barbara.
What a brilliant recipe
Sounds like this was a very popular recipe!
Those look sooooo delicious. What is in the sauce?
Hi Norma,
It’s a hot and sweet sauce from Maggi.
wow, deliciously seasoned chicken in a fried mashed potato sounds so awesome! i am definitely giving this a go asmita! how awesome!
Oh Asmita, these remind me of chicken croquetes what we used to make in Brazil…they look so good!
Have a great week ahead
What delicious looking patties my friend
And I think my commenting should be working again I have rearranged my entire site
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Asmita what lovely patties love them!:)
That is so cool! I love how you mould it with the palm of your hand. I can only assume that it would take a little bit of getting used to!
I like your take on keema patty of wrapping it around mashed potatoes. This would give a lovely creamy ness to the patties!
These look great! I love things with a filling – they’re always so much fun to bite into, and discover what’s there! And super flavors in this. Thanks so much.
No wonder you ended up polishing the plates.I would have done the same.This patties are great for children and adults as well.
Will definitely make them this week!
Yum… I love these patties… they have a surprise inside. Perfect.
Great use of the standard “meat and potato” meal.
The filling itself sounds delicious ! Would really love to try some of that yumminess !
These patties look so yummy!
They look really delicious Asmita. What a delicious filling and these would make the best pass-around food at a cocktail party xx
These look like the perfect food for when friends come over! Can you make mini ones for cocktail parties?
Thanks Lorraine.
Of course mini ones sound like an excellent idea. Will be a little time consuming but will look super cute.
Those look so savory and delicious! Thanks for the step by step instructions.
these look so delicious! yum!
This is so inventive, I love it!
These look so amazing! Perfectly golden brown and crunchy on the outside with that delicious filling inside! Irresistible.
This is a very nice dish. Thank you for this great tutorial.
These look so professional! I love the spices and flavourings too.
This dish looks so gooood….I love chicken so this dish would be perfect for me.
Love your instructions as well!
these look absolutely delicious! I bet you polished off the whole plate!
That looks amazingly delicious
I love the look of these, Asmita. I don’t often make patties and really love the filling in the dough, as opposed to mixing it all up together. Bookmarking this and adding it to my Pinterest to do in 2012 list! Thanks!
Thanks Lin. Keep me posted when you do.
These chicken patties look so, so delicious! And with your great instructions, very doable too! Great recipe
They look delicious! Perfectly fried with delicious flavors, I would love some of these.
What stunning little bites Asmita – I love things like this… which are stuffed. Such a little treat to bite into something and find it packed with a lovely blend of ingredients and flavours inside!
Hi Charles,
Thanks so much. My family loves these and I cannot believe I did not post this sooner.
You are certainly more than a beautiful face! What wonderful food. This is the stuff I love to eat. I’m definitely trying this one.
Thanks Maureen,
That is so sweet of you. Please keep me posted if you try these patties.
a fun and delicious patty! i love it used with minced chicken. A nice change from beef patties we have regularly. The spices in this sound right on
Hi Asmita, this blog is fantastic!!! I love indian cusine and I cook regularly indian recipes at home (it’s my husband favourite lunchbox!!. your patties look really inviting and flavoursome!!
Very delicious
These look delicious. My mother used the make them with minced meat. Interesting use of the word kheema as in Greek it is called “kimas” and means minced meat.
Hi Ivy,
That is interesting to know that in Greek you’ll call minced meat “Kimas”. It is so similar to the hindi word “kheema. It is so nice to see the similarity in the cooking and cooking terms.
hi asmita, i love potatoes prepared with fillings done this way, especially minced chicken. yummy with the dipping sauce. will need to try this out.
omg! i love these! my mom showed me how to make these before i got married…lol. your recipe is pretty much the same as my mom’s. they taste divine!!!
have you tried the veggie version and stuffing them with peas or chopped garlicky veggies? they taste good too but i prefer this meaty version more…hehe
Hi,
I love both the meat and the vegetable filling made with peas. Will have to post that soon for my vegetarian readers.
yummyyyyyyyy asusal
Asmita, it looks fantastic!
wow, the filling looks so good… i don’t think i’ve ever had a chicken patty, kinda looks like alu tikki, yummy!
Hi,
It is an aloo tikki but with a stuffing.
I loved the stuffing, its delicious!
these are adorable. i’ve never seen the process of using soaked sliced bread as the binder, would bread crumbs + egg work just as well?
Yes, egg and bread crumbs will work fine too.
My grandmother use to make something similar and would shape them in ovals stuffing them with leftover meat that she would grind and blend with onions and spices. I’d totally forgotten about these luscious little stuffed potatoes. To finish them I remember she would lay them in melted butter. When my dad would come home from work he would lift the lid to the pan and devour them. Prior to my dads arrival the rest of us would take our share knowing my dad would finish them off.
Yours look perfect and I’m sure delicious!
Wow, looks amazing, such an interesting, delicious sounding recipe!
Love the crispy exterior the potatoes get from the frying! That really offers a mix of textures along with those great flavors! It’s chicken and potatoes in one bite. Love it!
These would hit the spot right now (almost iftar time!) and I don’t even eat meat. Great job Asmita!
Om nom nom! These look super yummy
Wow that would be so good as a snack, I think I can eat a dozen of those
These look sooo tasty! All that careful work and planning reminds me of all the cooking my Mum used to do for me as a child.. good memories
It’s so rare that I visit a food blog and find something new and inspiring but that’s just what happened today! I’m going to make this asap. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi,
You made my day!
Love these patties!Looks so crispy and delicious with that yummy chicken filling
Thanks for sharing!
Oh my goodness. It’s only 10 in the morning here but I want to taste these RIGHT NOW!
Delicious looking! I would not be able to stop with one….
Cheers,
Rosa
Wow these looks sooooooo yummy.
Love these patties. My mom makes them with potatoes and minced meat. I know many in India don’t eat beef but The Indian Jews do though mostly goat I guess when my family lived there.
oh wow asmita, these look absolutely delicious! i love using ground chicken (since i don’t love ground beef), + i’m always looking for new recipes. these sound WONDERFUL!
The kheema was lovely but somehow I managed to mess up on the potatoes and could not stuff them so we just enjoyed the kheema with rice
Will try again for sure.
Hi Persis,
I am sorry to know the tikkis didn’t work out. Glad, you could enjoy the kheema, atleast. I think I might do a video on this recipe. It’s always better to watch something and then make it.