Baked Bread & Chickpeas Cutlet With Bean Sprouts

We usually buy baguette (the french bread) atleast thrice a week, sometimes after having our dinner most of those bread slices will be sitting in my bread bag and they will turn hard like a rock..Usually i do bread toast with those bread slices, this time i soaked them water and and with some leftover cooked chickpeas, leftover bean sprouts i prepared a simple bread cutlet for our evening snacks, instead of shallow frying this cutlets i baked them in oven and with ketchup this baked bread cutlet vanished within few minutes, we enjoyed our baked protein packed and fabulous cutlets also all my leftovers turned our evening snacks quite a filling snack..This baked bread and chickpeas cutlet goes to Sunday Snacks-Healthy Snacks guest hosted by Divya of Dil Se..also goes to MLLA-21 guest hosted by Superchef, event by Susan..

Ingredients:

• 1no Baguette (cut as pieces) 1cup Cooked chickpeas
• 1no Onion(chopped)
• 1/4cup Bean sprouts
• 2nos Green chillies (chopped)
• 10nos Mint leaves (chopped)
• 5nos Curry leaves
• 1tsp Garam masala
• Salt
• Oil for baking

Method:
Soak the baguette pieces for few minutes,smash the cooked chick peas and clean the bean sprouts and mash with ur fingers, press the soaked baguette with ur palms to squeeze out the water, take the mashed baguettes,smashed chickpeas and the bean sprouts, chopped green chillies, curry leaves,chopped mint leaves, garam masala, salt in a large vessel, heat a few drops of oil, saute the chopped onions... add the sauteed onions to the bread-chickpeas mixture..

Preheat the oven to 350F, line a baking paper over a baking sheet, brush the baking sheet with oil, make medium size cutlets with the spiced bread and chickpeas mixture, gently brush the cutlets with some oil and bake the cutlets in middle rack for 20-25minutes..Enjoy the baked cutlets with ketchup..