Stuffed Spinach kofta in Cashew-Tomato gravy

Spinach kofta with paneer filled with dryfruits are in cashew-tomato gravy.
It is rich dish which goes well chapati, naan, puri, parantha and rice.
In this recipe I am presenting Spinach kofta  in healthy manner.



                   



Ingredients

Kofta
1 1/2  cup finely chopped , washed and dry Spinach
3/4 cup grated Paneer
1 medium size boiled mashed Potato
1 tsp green chili paste
1 tsp grated ginger
1 tsp salt


Stuffing 

6-7 finely chopped cashews
6-7 finely chopped raisins
6-7 finely chopped almonds
A pinch of cardamom powder




Gravy

1/2 cup cashew
2 tomatoes
1 onion  (optional)
1 green chili
A small piece of ginger
1/4 tsp red chili powder
1/4 tsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
11/4 tbsp salt
1 1/4 tsp sugar (optional)
1/4 cup water ( or as required )
1 cup half & half (or can use milk or cream)

1 tbsp oil


Garnishing

some grated paneer
few finely chopped cilantro leaves


Method


Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan.
Add roughly chopped tomato,  cashew, onion , green chili and ginger and 2 tbsp water. Cook for 4-5 minutes or until they become little tender

In the mean time, we make koftas
In a bowl , add spinach, paneer ,potato, chili ,ginger and salt. Mix well and make some rough dough.
In another bowl, add all stuffing ingredients. mix well.

  

Now tomato onion become tender. keep it aside for cool down.

Now come to koftas.
Divide the dough into equal balls.
Take one ball and press in it in the middle and fill the 1/8 tsp filling and cover it properly and and roll it between the palms.
Prepare all koftas. and keep aside

(Sry I forget to take pics of stuffing the koftas)

Now Make the puree. For puree blend the cashew-tomato mixture into blender and make puree.

Heat oil in a pan. After few seconds when oil is hot, then add puree and red chili powder, coriander powder and cook for 7-8 minutes on medium gas.

in the mean time when our  puree is cooking

we make koftas.
Take appe pan. just drop some oil in every circle.
Now drop the koftas and cook the koftas on the appe pan on medium gas heat.
turn the koftas by side-by -side. It will take around 10-12 minutes to cook properly.







Now the puree has cooked. Add half & half and stir for 2-3 minutes. Add sugar , salt, garam masala and water. stir for 2-3 minutes more. Turn off the gas. Add pinch of cardamom powder . Your gravy is ready.






Now koftas is also ready.

koftas is very tender so koftas don't need to cook in the gravy.
For serving , add koftas into gravy , garnish with cilantro and paneer.

Stuffed Spinach kofta with cashew-tomato gravy is ready in the healthy manner.

 Note:-
Here I am giving my recipe to do parallel work. I don't want take double time.
Gravy and koftas are preparing together in a same time. 

Instead of half & half, you can use pure milk or pure cream.
Koftas will take time to cook on appe pan. you can also deep fry .
You can also shallow fry koftas on skillet or tawa, give the tikki shape and shallow fry.

Whenever you are going to serve then add koftas in gravy otherwise koftas will break.

While making koftas, spinach should be dry, otherwise mixture will be sticky.
If you find koftas mixture is sticky, you can add some binding agent like corn flour, besan, bread crumbs etc.(My kofta mixture was completely dry)



Onion is optional. you can make it without onion

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