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Cream cheese filled Beetroot kofta curry

Jun-18-2017
Zulekha Bose
40 minutes
Prep Time
30 minutes
Cook Time
3 People
Serves
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ABOUT Cream cheese filled Beetroot kofta curry RECIPE

Very delicious and healthy recipe that can be served with some chapathi or roti on the side, and goes well with some steamed rice too.

Recipe Tags

  • Veg
  • Medium
  • Dinner Party
  • Indian
  • Pan fry
  • Blending
  • Boiling
  • Frying
  • Main Dish
  • Healthy

Ingredients Serving: 3

  1. For cream cheese-
  2. Milk 1 litre
  3. juice of lemons 2 numbers
  4. Fresh cream 2 tablespoon
  5. Cottage cheese left over liquid 2 tablespoon
  6. Salt 1/4.teaspoon
  7. For the Preparation of cream cheese filling for beetroot koftas-
  8. Cream cheese 150 gram
  9. Fried onions 1/4 cup
  10. Cashew broken 1 tablespoon
  11. Green chillies fine chopped 2 numbers
  12. Red chilli flakes 1/2 teaspoon
  13. cardamom powder 1/4 teaspoon
  14. Cumin powder 1/2 teaspoon
  15. Chaatmasala 1/2 teaspoon
  16. Salt 1/4 teaspoon or as per taste
  17. Mixed dried herbs 1/4 teaspoon (optional)
  18. For the beetroot kofta dough-
  19. Beet root 2 numbers( grated and squeezed)
  20. Maize flour 2 tablespoon
  21. All purpose flour 1 tablespoon
  22. Corn flour 1 tablespoon
  23. dry mango powder 1 teaspoon
  24. Salt 1/2 teaspoon or as per taste
  25. Chilli powder 1 teaspoon or as per taste
  26. For the preparation of cream cheese filled beetroot kofta -
  27. Corn flour 2 tablespoon
  28. Squeezed liquid from grated beet root 6 tablespoon
  29. Bread crumbs 3/4 cup
  30. Oil for Deep frying
  31. For the kofta gravy-
  32. Oil 3 tablespoon
  33. Onion 1 number finely chopped
  34. Onion 1 number grated
  35. Tomatoes 2 number grated
  36. Ginger garlic paste 1 tablespoon
  37. Leftover corn flour and beetroot juice mixture
  38. Leftover cream cheese filling (optional)
  39. Water as per requirement
  40. Whole spices -
  41. Bay leaf 2 numbers
  42. Green cardamom 2 numbers
  43. Cinnamon stick 1 inch
  44. Red chilli powder 1 teaspoon
  45. Whole Black pepper 4-6 numbers
  46. Dry fenugreek leaves 1 tablespoon
  47. Powder spices -
  48. Chana masala 1 tablespoon
  49. Red chilli powder 1 teaspoon or as per taste
  50. Turmeric powder 1/4 teaspoon
  51. Cumin powder 1/2 teaspoon
  52. salt as per taste
  53. Garam Masala powder

Instructions

  1. Bring milk to a boil and add lemon juice to curdle the milk and filter this curdled milk through a sieve.
  2. Keep 2 tablespoon left over liquid from curdled milk for making cream cheese.
  3. Press and squeeze out all the liquid from cottage cheese.
  4. Cool cottage cheese for 10-15.minutes.
  5. trasfer in a mixer jaar add in 1/4 teaspoon salt and fresh cream and little leftover water from curdled milk
  6. Blend nicely to make a smooth paste out of this. We need only 150 gram cream cheese only from this
  7. Now your homemade cream cheese is ready keep it aside.
  8. Clean and rinse beetroots and peelout outer skin with the help of peeler.
  9. Grate both the beetroot and squeeze out all the liquit with your hands ,keep this beetroot juice aside we need this later for corn flour mixture preparation.
  10. I used home made cream cheese you can buy readymade from the market it is easily available.
  11. Prepare the cream cheese filling of beetroot koftas, for that mix all the igredients shown in the below picture .
  12. Prepare beetroot kofta dough by mixing grated beetroot, maize flour, all purpose flour,corn flour, salt, chilli powder, dry mango powder.
  13. I used maize flour because gram flour was not available at home, but koftas came out well and tasty too.
  14. To Prepare beetroot kofta balls-pinch 2 tablespoon beetroot kofta dough and flatten it on your palm.
  15. Now keep 1 tablespoon creamcheese filling at the centre of beetroot kofta dough.
  16. Now lift beetroot kofta dough up from all the sides and cover cream cheese with the dough.
  17. Roll it in your hands and give them round shapes.
  18. In a same way prepare all the beetroot koftas.
  19. Mix corn flour in beetroot juice which we got from grated beetroot.
  20. Take out bread crumbs in a plate and keep all ready cream cheese stuffed beetroot koftas in a same plate.
  21. Now first dip one kofta in corn flour and beetroot paste then coat it with bread crumbs from all the sides.
  22. In a same way prepare all the cream cheese filled beetroot koftas and keep them aside .
  23. Now heat oil in a kadai and deep fry all the cream cheese filled koftas until crispy from outside in a medium flame.
  24. Crispy cream cheese filled beetroot kofta are ready to go in gravy.
  25. To prepare cream cheese filled kofta gravy we need all the ingrediend shown in the picture below.
  26. Heat oil in a kadai to a smoking point reduce the flame and addin all the whole spices and fry for a second and add in chopped onions.
  27. Fry onions untill light brown in colour
  28. Add in all the piwder spices and ginger garlic paste and fry for 1 minute on medium flame.
  29. Add in grated onions and fry them on high flame until raw smell of onions goes.
  30. Now add in grated tomatoes and fry.
  31. Fry until oil start separating from spices.now switch off the flame and cool this gravy and shift this into a mixer jaar to make a smooth gravy paste.
  32. After blending, gravy paste should look like this( picture shown below )
  33. Transfer this gravy paste in a kadai and switch on flame if you need you can add little water and let it boil.
  34. Now add in garam masala powder and left over cream cheese filling, salt to taste and mix all the ingredients properly with a cooking spoon.
  35. Add in remaining beetroot and corn flour mixture to the gravy and give a good stur.
  36. By doing this colour and texture of the gravy looks good ,cook gravy until it starts boiling on high flame.
  37. Add in 1/2 teaspoon sugar or honey into the gravy
  38. Now add in ready cream cheese filled beetroot kofta into the gravy.
  39. Add in dry fenugreek leaves(kasuri methi) cook for another 2-3 minutes on medium flame.
  40. Your yummy and delicious cream cheese filled beetroot kofta gravy is is ready to serve with butter naan. Kulcha. Paratha or with plane rice.

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Reema Garg
Jun-19-2017
Reema Garg   Jun-19-2017

wow...so good...

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