Simple yet tasty & flavoured koftas combined with spinach sauce makes a dish that you will never forget . Usually our weekend starts with a special dinner on the friday evening followed by movie. This dish, that I made last friday came out very well and one of my favorites now. This gave me a bit long time to relax than usual as preparing any other gravy would take relatively more time. This goes well with chapati or naan.
Ingredients:
For Koftas:
- Potato : 1 (boil , peel the layer and mash to a fine paste)
- Sweet Corn : 1/4 cup (cooked and chopped)
- Panner : 1/4 cup (crumbled)
- Coriander leaves : 1tblspn (finely chopped)
- Plain flour : 2 tblspn
- Chat masala : 1 tspn
- Chilli powder : 1 tspn
- Salt : as required
- Oil : 5 tblspn
- Spinach Paste : 1/2 cup (boil spinach using water ,drain water and make a fine paste)
- Beaten curds : 1/2 cup
- Cashews : 7
- Poppy seeds : 1 tblspn
- Grated fresh coconut : 1 1/2 tblspn (grated)
- Green chillies : 6-7
- Garam masala : 1tspn
- Cumin powder : 1/2 tblspn
- Sugar : 1/2 tspn
- Salt : as required
- Oil : 2 tblspn
- Ghee : 2 tblspn
Method:
Making Koftas :
- Combine potato paste , chopped corn , crumbled paneer , coriander leaves , plain flour , chat masala , salt , chilli powder and mix well .
- Pinch a small sized ball from it and slightly press in the middle to make koftas.
- Heat oil in a pan and shallow fry koftas until they turn golden brown in colour.
- Fry poppy seeds without oil. Grind the cashews , roasted poppy seeds , green chillies ,coconut into a very fine paste using a little water.
- Heat Oil and ghee in a pan .Add the grinded paste and fry on a medium flame till the oil seperates.
- Now add the beaten curds , salt , cumin powder and let it cook for 3-4 minutes.
- Add the spinach paste and cook until it starts bubbling. Stir occasionally to avoid sticking to the pan.
- Add Sugar , garam masala and mix well.
- Boil the spinach sauce and add the fried koftas before serving.
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Kofthas in a healthy sauce. Lovely color and thx for linking.
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