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Bread kofta in palak gravy (bread kofta in spinach curry)

Servings: 4-5
Preparation time: 8-10 minutes.
Kofta frying time: 3-4 minutes(each batch).
Frying masala time: 8-9 minutes.
Cooking time: 5 minutes.
Total time: 28 minutes.

First time I made this recipe years ago, when one of my family friend visited us suddenly, I didn’t have sufficient vegetables to prepare the meal, made this recipe and they were surprise to know that it is bread kofta in palak gravy… they liked this very much.

Spinach is without doubt the most important green vegetable; it contains many different nutrients, vitamins, folic acid, which keeps our skin looking young and bright.

Ingredients:

Bread: 3-4 slices
Palak (spinach): 100 gm
Onion: 1 no. (Small)
Tomato: 2 no. (Small)
Ginger paste: half teaspoon
Garlic paste: half teaspoon
Green chilli: 2 no.
Refined Oil: deep frying
Cumin seed: half teaspoon
Clove: 2 no.
Cinnamon: 1” piece
Green cardamom: 1 no.
Mace: 1 small piece
Butter/Fresh cream: 1 tablespoon (optional)
Salt: 1 teaspoon
Turmeric powder: ½ teaspoon
Red chilli powder: 1 teaspoon
Coriander powder: 1 teaspoon
Garam masala powder: ¼ teaspoon
Fresh coriander leaves: 20 gm.
Cashew nut: 15-20 no.

Preparation:

Cut onion and 1 tomato, grind them to smooth paste. Keep aside.
Chop cashew nut, green chilli and coriander leaves and 1 tomato, keep aside.
Blanch/Boil or microwave palak for 3 minutes and grind to fine paste, keep aside.
Discard the edges of bread, soak the bread into water and squeeze it and keep it into mixing bowl, add salt, chopped green chilli, chopped coriander, cashew nut and pinch of turmeric powder, mix well and make dough, divide the dough into 10-12 part, make lemon size ball, keep aside.

Method:

Take a heavy bottom pan. Put oil in a pan, when smoke starts, add 3 – 4 bread balls (kofta), and deep-fry the kofta on medium flame till light brown in colour, remove and keep aside. Repeat till all kofta is fried.
Put 2 tablespoon of oil into the pan. When smoke starts, put whole Garam masala (green cardamom, mace, clove, Cumin seed and cinnamon), Sputter it for few seconds.
Add ground onion paste, garlic and ginger paste, Fry these masala till liquid dries up.(About 2-3 minutes on medium flame), Add red chilli powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder, fry for few seconds.
Add fresh cream and palak paste and salt, put half cup water, and just boil it, add fried kofta and bring it to boil, add Garam masala powder.
Transfer it to serving bowl, garnish with fresh cream or butter. Bread kofta in palak gravy (bread kofta in spinach curry) is ready to serve, serve hot with roti or paratha.