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how to make vegetable kofta curry with beetroots

Total Time 1 hour

Ingredients
  

For koftas:

  • Beetroots - 2 no medium size grated
  • Carrots - 2 no grated
  • Boiled potatoes - 2 no mash it
  • Besan/chick pea flour - 2 tbsp
  • Roasted gram flour - 2 tbsp
  • Green chillies - 1-2
  • Garlic - 3-4 pieces
  • Chopped coriander leaves - 1tbsp
  • Salt to taste and oil for frying.

For gravy:

  • Tomatoes - 3 no pureed
  • Onions - 2 no pureed
  • Green chillies - 2 no
  • Ginger - 1 inch piece
  • Chilli powder - 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
  • saunf/fennel powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil - 2tbsp
  • Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Fresh cream -2-3 tbsp
  • Some chopped coriander leaves

Instructions
 

For koftas:

  • First saute grated beetroots and carrot in a pan with a drop of oil and mince green chillies and garlic.
  • Combine all ingredients with the sauteed veggies to it and mix it without lumps.
  • Make balls.
  • Heat the oil in a kadai and fry the koftas in medium flame and take out in a tissue and keep ready.

For gravy:

  • Make a puree of onions and tomatoes separately and mince ginger and green-chillies and keep ready.
  • Add oil in a kadai and put minced green chillies and ginger and saute,
  • Then add onion paste and keep on mixing till the onions are thoroughly cooked and color changes to brown then add chilli,turmeric,fennel cumin and garam-masala powders to it.
  • Saute till rawness goes and add pureed tomatoes and again mix thoroughly till all the rawness goes away.
  • Now add salt and then water and let it boil for some time till it becomes thick.
  • At last add cream and chopped coriander,mix and switch off.
  • Add the koftas only before serving otherwise it becomes soggy.

Notes

I have added besan and roasted gram flour in equal amounts to bring out the crispness.
I have sauteed the beetroots and carrots to remove the rawness and to seal the flavor.
Add the koftas only before serving otherwise it becomes soggy.
The gravy for koftas are usually spicy so you can increase or decrease the spiciness accordingly to your need.
You can add little more cream if you want to reduce spiciness and increase creaminess.