Bidisha's Corner

Friday 28 November 2014

Banana Paneer Kofta / Kachkola chenar kofta

INGREDIENTS:
For kofta balls:
Raw Banana / Kacha kola (3). Potato (1)(sos).
Chena made by adding lemon juice or calcium lactate to 2cups of milk, and collect the solid milk.
Salt to taste.
Kofta gravy
Lemon juice (1/2 Tsp).
Finely chopped onions (1).
Chopped  green chilies (2).
Red chili powder (1 Tsp), Cumin powder (1 Tsp).
Ginger paste (1 Tsp).
Baking powder (a pinch of ) (SOS).
Maida (2 TBs).
Oil for frying.
For Gravy:
Grinded (onions(2)+ Tomatoes(2)).
Ginger paste (1 TBs).
Salt to taste.
Red chili powder (1 TBs), Turmeric powder (1 Tsp).
Bay leaves (2-3).
Green peas (a fist ful) (SOS winter is the time of green peas)
Maida(1 Tsp).
Cumin (1/2 Tsp), Cumin powder (1 Tsp), Coriander powder (1 Tsp).
Garam masala powder (1 Tsp), Sugar (a pinch of), Ghee (1 Tbs).

PROCEDURE:
Boil the raw bananas and potato in pressure cooker.
Now in another vessel consider the boiled banana and potato and mash them up.
Now add chena, salt, lemon juice, chopped onions,chili, chili powder, cumin powder, ginger paste, maida and baking powder and knead well and form a neat dough.
Now heat enough oil in a pan and as oil in done, with spoon or neat finger tips make small kofta shaped dumplings of the batter and drop them in oil, fry them golden brown on both the sides and keep aside on absorbent paper.
Similarly fry whole of dough and keep aside, remove excess oil from pan and keep the remaining for further proceedings.
Fried Kofta balls
To the oil add cumin seeds, bay leaves and as they turn brown add onion+tomato paste, ginger paste, sugar and saute with salt till oil leaves the walls of pan.
Now in a small bowl make a mixture of cumin powder, coriander powder, red chili powder, turmeric powder, maida with little water and keep aside.
As the ingredients of the pan gets cooked well, and oil leaves the walls of pan add the above prepared mixture of spices to the pan and saute well till all ingredients gets cooked and now add green peas, water as for desired gravy say about 2-3 cups.
As water starts boiling add the fried kofta balls, garam masala powder, ghee, allow it to cook for 30 seconds- 60 seconds and off the flame.
Serve it in serving bowl and enjoy its great banana-paneer combi taste.

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