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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- From: Andy Behrens <andyb@coat.com>
- Subject: Kofta Balls
- Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950406191112.6555P-100000@leda>
- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 05:08:22 GMT
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- Here is a Malai Kofta recipe that was posted a few years ago.
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- There are two parts to the preparation. I start with the Kofta
- (vegetable) balls. While baking (or deep fry if you like grease) the
- Kofta balls, prepare the Malai (Hindi for "cream") sauce.
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- KOFTA BALL INGREDIENTS:
- 2 yellow squash
- 2 zuchini squash
- 1 white or yellow onion
- ~2 cups chickpea (garbonzo) flour.
- 1 Tablespoon ground Coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon Cayenne
- bit of salt.
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 egg (optional)
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- Heat oven to 425 or so.
- In large bowl, grate the squashes and onion
- add spices
- add optional egg
- mix chickpea flour till breaddough consistency
- form kofta "dough" into 1 inch diameter balls.
- place on cookie sheet, bake for 25 minutes or so.
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- While cooking: mix Malai sauce
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- MALAI SAUCE INGREDIENTS:
- 4 large tomatoes
- 1 hot chili (serrano or Jap). Remove seeds if wimpy.
- 1.5 inch fresh ginger. or full teaspoon powdered.
- 2 cups cream
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- Puree above in blender.
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- Heat 4 tablespoons peanut oil in saucepan
- Mix 2 teaspoons ground Cumin with:
- 3/4 teaspoon Turmeric
- 2 teaspoons Garam Masala
- 2 teaspoons Paprika
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- add the above spices all at once to hot oil for 1 minute.
- add tomato(e) puree to spices.
- add 1 more cup cream to spices and the puree.
- Boil.
- reduce heat, simmer for 10 minutes.
- add half of the cooked Kofta balls.
- simmer another 10 to soften them.
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- Serve with brown rice, chapatis, vinegar soaked onions and chilies.
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- HUERISTICS:
- 1) slightly wet hands when forming Kofta balls
- 2) Freeze other half of Kofta balls and use with next batch of Malai
- to save time.
- 3) keep Kofta balls seperate from Malai sauce till needed. (they absorb
- the liquid from sauce)
- 4) milk can be substituted for some of the cream. Have not tried soy milk
- 5) add 1 drop red and 1 drop yellow food coloring to vinegar to make
- reasonably authentic orange onions (a la Akbar's)
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