Bidisha's Corner

Thursday, 15 May 2014

Echorer Kofta/ Gulli Kebab

Echor is Raw Jack fruit. Echor er kofta is made by dressed  raw jackfruit and cutting it into small pieces and boiling them for softening.

INGREDIENTS:
FOR KOFTA:
                   Boiled Echor (200gms).
                   Boiled potato (1big).
                   Fried Masala powder (1 Tablespoon).

                   Salt to taste.
                   Oil for deep frying.

FOR GRAVY:
                   Grated onion (2 big).
                   Grated tomatoes (2 big)
                   Oil (2 Tablespoons).
                   Jeera(cumin) powder, Coriander powder ( 1-2 Teaspoons each).
                   Jeera a pinch, bay leaves (2-3).
                   Salt to taste.
                   Red chilli powder and turmeric powder as per requirement.
                   Green chillies (3-4).
                   Ginger paste ( 1 Teaspoon).
                   Ghee (1 Tablespoon), Garam masala powder (1 Teaspoon).

PROCEDURE:
Take a bowl and mix all the ingredients of kofta except oil and mix properly knead properly so that no lumps are found. Make small small kofta balls out of it and deep fry them in heated oil in simmer. Its important to fry kofta balls in simmer or else only the external part will be fried and inner part wont be cooked.
Now remove extra oil from the kadai so that gravy can be cooked, add jeera, bay leaves, grated onions and fry well, add grated tomatoes, ginger paste and salt and cook till oil leaves from the ingredients and walls of kadai, now add jeera powder, coriander powder, chilli powder and turmeric powder, if required add little water so that ingredients don't burn up, once you see the ingredients got cooked add water about 200ml and bring it to boil by closing lid, now as water is boiling add fried koftas and green chillies, once the whole thing comes to boil add little ghee and garam masala powder and off the stove, and garnish with malai(sos), serve it with rice, paratha, roti or puris. Its yummy to have fried koftas as a snack item which goes good with tea or coffee.

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