Kofta Curry, the earliest known recipes are found in early Arab cookbook and call for ground lamb. Kofta means a meatball, and kofta curry or koftay ka salan (meatball in curry) is a classic Pakistani curry which is prepared by first making meatball with mince meat and then putting them to cook in flavourful curry made with onion and yogurt.
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Kofta Curry is made in two steps.
- Meatball / Kofta preparation.
- Gravy preparation.
Ingredients:
| 1st Ingredients Meatball / Kofta preparation) | 2nd Step Ingredients (Gravy preparation) | ||||
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1 |
Beef mince. (washed and dried). | 500 gm. |
1 |
Cooking oil. | 01 cup. |
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2 |
Onion. (sliced) | 01 medium. |
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Onion paste. | 04 medium. |
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3 |
Ginger paste. | 01 tsp. |
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White cumin seeds. | 01 tbsp. |
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4 |
Green Chilli. (roughly cut) | 02 in No. or to taste. |
4 |
Black Pepper. | 06-08 in No. |
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Garlic paste. | 01 tsp. |
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Cinnamon. | 01 piece. |
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Salt. | 01 tsp. or to taste. |
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Cloves. | 03 in No. |
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Crushed White Cumin seeds. | 01 tsp. |
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Ginger/garlic paste. | 01 tbsp. |
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8 |
Whole spice powder. | 01 tsp. |
8 |
Coriander powder. | 01 tbsp. |
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9 |
Red chilli powder. | 01 tsp. or to taste. |
9 |
Salt . | 01 tbsp. or to taste. |
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10 |
Mint leaves.(finely chopped). | 1/2 cup. |
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Coriander leaves.(chopped). | 02 tbsp. |
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11 |
Roasted black chickpea powder. | 02 tbsp. |
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Turmeric powder. | 1/2 tsp. |
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12 |
Egg. | 01 in No. |
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Red chilli powder. | 01 tbsp. or to taste. |
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Thick Yogurt. | 02 tbsp. |
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Yogurt. | 01 cup. |
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Coriander leaves (finely chopped). | 1/2 cup. |
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Whole spice powder. | 1/2 tsp. |
Procedure:
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1 |
Firstly take beef mince, sliced onion and green chilli in a chopper which turns into fine chopped mixture. |
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2 |
Put chopped mince in a bowl and add all first step ingredients in a bowl and mix well. |
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3 |
Grease hands with oil and make medium sized balls from this mince mixture. |
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Heat oil in a vessel, add meat balls, fry them till light golden colour, now take out from oil. |
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For gravy making. take another vessel, put sieved oil of frying, add white cumin seeds ,black pepper, cloves and cinnamon piece fry for few seconds, add ginger/garlic paste, onion paste, fry it and dry all water until oil is separated. |
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Now add red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, salt and half cup of water, sauté all spices as such oil is separated, now add yogurt and again cook it until oil separated then add water as per your taste for gravy. |
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7 |
Add fried meatballs, cover and cook it for 7-8 minutes on low flame. |
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Now add whole spice powder and chopped coriander leaves and mix it. |
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Delicious Kofta Curry is now ready, serve hot. |
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