- Servings: 3
- Preparation time: 15 minutes.
- Frying time: 10 minutes.
- Cooking time: 20 minutes.
- Total time: 45 minutes.
The first bite will overwhelm you with mouth melting kofta flavour, the next bite will delight you with the spice mix and rich taste of fresh cream. Have a unique taste of ‘Baby corn kofta curry’. The lip smacking bliss, that comes from this baby corn kofta curry.
Ingredients:
For kofta:
- Baby corn: 4 no. (150-200 gm)
- Khoa: 50 gm.
- Corn flour: 1 tablespoon
- Maida (refined flour): 1 teaspoon
- Green chilli: 1 no.
- Salt: ½ teaspoon
- Refined oil/ cooking oil: for deep frying
For gravy:
- Oil: 2 tablespoon
- Roasted cumin powder: ½ teaspoon
- Onion: 100 gm.
- Tomato: 50 gm.
- Ginger: 2” pieces
- Garlic: 4-5 flakes
- Chilli powder: 1 teaspoon
- Coriander powder: ½ teaspoon
- Turmeric powder: ½ teaspoon
- Garam masala powder: ½ teaspoon
- Salt: ½ teaspoon
- Fresh cream: 2 tablespoon
- Green coriander leaves: 20 gm.
- Water: 1 cup
Preparation:
For kofta:
- Grate the baby corn, chop green chilli, put into mixing bowl, and add all ingredients of kofta except oil mix well and make dough for kofta.
- Divide this dough into 10 -12 part, Shape this dough into balls (kofta), keep aside.
For gravy:
- Chop onion, garlic, ginger and tomato; grind to make smooth paste, keep aside.
Method:
- Heat the oil in a fry pan; deep fry the kofta (ball) till it turns golden brown in colour from all sides. Keep aside.
- Heat 2 tablespoon of oil, when it smokes, add cumin sputter for few seconds, add ground paste, stir and fry on medium low flame till liquid dries up , add salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder, and coriander powder, stir for couple of minutes on low flame.
- Add fresh cream and fry it on lower flame (2-3 minutes) add water slowly and boil the gravy. Lower the flame and boil it for couple of minutes, add fried kofta and cover it.
- Put off the flame, kofta is ready after 5-10 minutes.
- Transfer the ‘Baby corn kofta curry’ into the serving bowl, garnish with the fresh cream and chopped green coriander. Serve hot.
Baby corn kofta curry by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.