Palak, Soya-Methi ke kofte
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| Meat balls with soya,palak,methi saag |
Couple of months ago my loving cousin sister Binni Baji (Sehba Imam) was recalling the taste of my mother's recipe kofta with palak ,soya, methi ka saag. She demanded me to publish that recipe for her. Due to lack of time i was not able to cook this dish as this dish requires a lot of time .
Few days ago I visited my home town Bareilly where I cooked this dish for my father . Our domestic help noor afshaan helped me to cook this dish.....thank you ... Noor fshaan for the cooperation.
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| Minced meat for meat balls |
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| Meat balls/ kofte |
Category - non Vegetarian
Serve- 4-6 people
Preparation time:1 hour
Indrediants for Meat Balls (kofta)
- Minced meat(qeema)- 1/2 k.g
- Onion paste- 2 table spoon
- Garam masala powder- 1/4 tea spoon
- Rosted chana powder-or gram flour (rosted)- 3 table spoon full
- White poppy seeds powder ( khas- khas 1/4 tea spoon)
- Ginger-garlic paste- 1/2 tea spoon
- Turmeric-1/2 tea spoon
- Red chili powder- 1/4 tea spoon
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| kofte |
- Salt- 1/2 tea spoon
For filling
- Coriander/ mint leaves-chopped-1-table spoon
- Green chili-chopped- 4-5
- Onion(chopped)-1 small
- Ginger (chopped)-1/2 tea spoon
Method
Wash well minced meat in the sieve then drain well. Finely grind minced meat in the mixer grinder, add other ingredients and spices all together and blend it well.
Well mixing is very important to make your kofta smooth other wise,meat balls may break while cooking.
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| Meat balls with soya ,palak, methi saag |
Put small quantity of prepared minced meat on your palm , fill chopped mixture of coriander, green chili,onion- ginger in it and make small balls.
Keep it aside and start preparation for gravy.
For that you will be needing-
Ingredients for gravy
- Spinach( palak chopped)-1k.g chopped
- Dill leaves( soya leaves)-1table spoon
- Fenugreek leaves green( hari methi )-3 table- spoon /or dry leaves-1tea spoon
- Onion paste-2 table spoon
- Mustard oil/ refined oil-4 table spoon
- Garlic-Ginger paste-1/2 teaspoon
- Salt-1/2 tea spoon
- Green chili-5 (chopped)
- Turmeric-1/2 tea spoon
- Red chili powder-1/2 tea spoon
- Coriander powder- 1/2 tea spoon
How to do -
To prepare gravy, heat the mustard oil in the deep pan, add onion, garlic ginger paste, stir a little,now add turmeric, red chili,coriander powder salt, stir 2-3 times,add 1/4 cup of water and let it cook till the water dry. Now add chopped hari palak, methi,soya leaves, mix it all with gravy well. When palak cooked a little, add meat balls in the gravy care fully , just move the pan a little so that gravy mix with the meat ball.
Do not use ladle to move meat balls till it cooked a little. Stir time to time. Cook this dish on the medium flame. You need not to add water in it because palak leaves its water itself. While cooking you can smell the aroma of hari soya- methi
leaves which can make you impatient to eat it. So
have patience till the dish is ready.
When the kofta turned soft and well cooked with palak. let the water dry of the dish, parch it well. Adjust the salt again. When oil started separate from the gravy. Turn off the heat. palak soya- methi kofta is ready...
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| Meat balls with soya -palak -methi ka saag |
Now last but not the least... garnish your dish with your love and affection... believe me it will make your dish richer and tastier. Have it with roti plain rice.its tastes sooooooooooooo delicious.
Happy cooking!!!
Arshia zaidi
