Palak Paneer ke Kofte

Ingredients

For Koftas

2 cup finely chopped spinach

1 cup Bengal gram flour (Besan/Chick pea flour)

3-4 Potatoes, boiled and mashed

200 gm cottage cheese

1 tablespoon cashew nuts, finely chopped

1 tablespoon raisins

Salt to taste

1 tablespoon oil

1 tablespoon flour for roasting besan

Oil for deep frying

For gravy

3 Medium sized onions (make paste)

250 gms tomato puree

2 tea spoon ginger paste

1 tea spoon garlic paste

2-3 green chillies (paste)

2 tablespoon curd (yogurt)

½ teaspoon of red chilli

½ teaspoon turmeric power

½ teaspoon garam masala

½ teaspoon coriander powder

½ tea spoon jeera power (cumin)

1 cardamom

2 leaves of tejpatta (Bay leaf)

A small piece of cinnamon

2 table spoon chopped coriander leaves

2 cloves

A pinch of powder of kasuri methi (dried fenugreek leaves)(Making Kasuri Methi (dried fenugreek) at home)

Salt to taste

2 tablespoon Oil

Method

Koftas

Heat oil in a pan.

Add besan(Bengal gram flour) to it. Mix it well.

Cook it over a slow flame till besan gets little roasted, and keep stirring it.

Remove from stove.

Add spinach and mashed potatos to it and mix it well in the form of dough.

Mash cottage cheese to a smooth pulp.

Add cashew nuts, raisins and salt to it and mix it well.

Make small balls out of it

Make equal number of balls of lemon size of spinach & besan dough

Make depression (hole) in the potato spinach & besan balls and fill the small cottage cheese balls into in and bind them well.

Sprinkle little dry flour all over koftas

Heat oil in a Kadhai (wok).

Fry all koftas golden brown over a medium flame

Drain and keep aside.

Gravy

Heat oil in a pan.  Add ginger & garlic paste to it. Stir it.

Add onion paste; cook it till the paste become golden.

Add green chilli paste and keep stirring it.

Now add the tomato puree to it and cook it till the oil separates.

Add bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, garam masala, coriander powder, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, cumin powder and salt to taste, and stir it well.

Add curd and mix it well

Now add water to it and cook for 8-10 minutes.

Now add kasuri methi powder.and cook for another 2 minutes.

Arrange Koftas in a dish.

Pour the gravy on the koftas.

Garnish them with chopped coriander leaves.

Serve while hot with parantha or rice.