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Vegetable Kofta

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Ingredients


For Kofta

  • Vegetables – 2 cups (boiled) ( I used frozen mixed vegetables – carrot, beans, green peas, corn, and cauliflower)
  • Potato – 1 cup (boiled and smashed)
  • Green chilles – 3 to 4 (chopped)
  • Coriander powder – 1 tsp
  • Cumin Powder – 1/2 tsp
  • Red Chilli Powder – 1/2 tsp (adjusted to taste)
  • Coriander Leaves – 1/2 cup
  • Salt – a per taste
  • Corn Flour/All puprose flour – 2 tsp
  • Oil for frying

For Gravy

  • Tomato – 2 cups
  • Onion – 1 cup
  • Cashew – 1/2 cup
  • Cream or milk – 1/2 cup
  • Cumin powder – 1 tsp
  • Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
  • Black Jeera – 1/2 tsp
  • Coriander powder – 1 tsp
  • Coriander leaves – 1/4 cup (chopped)
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
  • Turmeric – 2 pinch
  • Garam masala – 1/4 tsp
  • Salt as per taste
  • Oil – 2 tsp

Method

To Make Kofta

  • Smash the potato, vegetables and mix together.
  • In that, add the green chillies, coriander powder, cumin powder, chilli powder, chopped coriander, salt and mix thoroughly.
  • Now make them in to small round balls (can be of any shape).
  • Roll over the corn flour.
  • In a kadai, head the oil in medium flame and put the balls one by one slowly and fry till they become slight brown in colour.
  • Take them from oil, dry in tissue paper.

To make Gravy

  • Dry fry the cashews just for 2 to 3 minutes and grind it to make a coarse powder.
  • In a Pan, add oil, onion and little salt and let it become little brown colour.
  • To this add ginger garlic paste, turmeric, chopped tomatoes, chilli powder, cumin powder and coriander powder.
  • If needed, add little water.
  • Cook till the tomatoes becomes soft and blend it in a blender to make a smooth paste.
  • In another pan, add oil and when hot, add jeera, and the blended paste.
  • Allow to boil by adding the garam masala.
  • Add the cream/milk and again boil it.
  • Now add the cashew powder, and allow to cook again for another 2 min.
  • Now gently put the kofta’s one by one and let it rest for half an hour.
  • Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with any roti, naan, chappathi etc.

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Comments

  1. மகி says

    Rich and yummy koftha curry! 😛 😛

    /Oil – 2 tsp/-nu sollirukkeegnka,2 teaspoon oil- a ippadi mithakkuthu?!;) 😉
    superb gravy! Nijamave vaayil echil ooruthunga akila!

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  4. Sadhana Valentina says

    Hi Akila dear. I'm juz loving this divine recipe. What a lovely presentation, awesome!!! The pics made me hungry. Have bookmarked the page. And, I have missed many of ur recipes dear. I dont know how my name got deleted in ur followers list. I'm following u again.

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