Kofta

Name: Kofta
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup pumpkin; to taste salt; 1 tsp Cumin seeds; 1 tsp fennel seeds; 1 tbsp coriander leaves; 5 tbsp gram flour; 1 tsp garam masala; 3 green chillies; as needed oil for frying; 2 onion; 2 tomatoes; 2 tsp ginger garlic paste; 1 bay leaf; to taste salt and red chilli powder; 1 tsp coriander powder; 2 tsp turmeric powder; as needed water; 2 tsp lemon juice; 2 tsp corinader leaves

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Ingredients

1 hr

4 people

1 cuppumpkin
to tastesalt
1 tspCumin seeds
1 tspfennel seeds
1 tbspcoriander leaves
5 tbspgram flour
1 tspgaram masala
3green chillies
as neededoil for frying
2onion
2tomatoes
2 tspginger garlic paste
1bay leaf
to tastesalt and red chilli powder
1 tspcoriander powder
2 tspturmeric powder
as neededwater
2 tsplemon juice
2 tspcorinader leaves

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Steps

1 hr

1

Preparing Kofta Mixture
Take 1cup pumpkin in a pressure cooker. Add 1.5 cups water.
Pressure cook for 3 whistles or till the pumpkin have complete softened.
Once they become warm, place in a mixing bowl.
2

Mash them with a potato masher or with a fork. Mash very well.
Then add all of the other ingredients, except oil. Mix very well.
Now take equal portions from the mixture and shape them into patties.
3

Frying kofta
Heat 2 tbsp peanut oil in a flat pan or tawa. When the oil becomes hot, place the koftas.
When the base is cooked and becomes light golden, turn over and fry the other side.
Flip for a couple of times more and pan fry the koftas till they become golden and crisp.
4

Then drain the fried koftas on kitchen paper towels.
5

For Curry/Gravy
Peel, roughly chop onion and grind into smooth paste (don't add water), grind tomato and keep aside.
In a small bowl add chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and garam masala, add 2 tbsp of water and mix well to make paste.
6

Heat oil in a pan or wok add bay leaf and saute for 30 seconds. Add onion paste, ginger garlic paste and fry until oil starts to separates around 5-6 minutes in slow to medium flame.
Add spice mixture into onion mixture and mix well, cook for another 5 minutes stirring in intervals. Add tomato puree now and mix well cover and cook for another 5 minutes, do stir in intervals.
7

Once masala starts to leave oil, add 1/2 cup water, mix well and cook for 4-5 minutes in slow flame to cook masala well.
8

Add 4 to 5 cups of water and bring it to good boil, simmer for 10 minutes in medium flame. Add kofta and simmer again for 5 minutes in slow flame and off flame.