Curry Balls!

We're sure you must have often heard people saying vegetarians do not have much food options to feast on! Though we don't believe so and that's the reason, we are here to add another amazing vegetarian dish to your veg palate, th recipe of Courgette Kofta Curry. Here's how and what all you need to prepare.

COURGETTE KOFTA CURRY

INGREDIENTS

• 1 tbsp sunflower oil
• 2 onions, roughly chopped
• 1 green chilli, roughly chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
• 1cm piece fresh ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
• 2 tomatoes, roughly chopped
• 2 tbsp tomato purée
• 1⁄2 tsp salt
• 1⁄2 tsp sugar (any will do)
• 1⁄2 tsp chilli powder
• 1⁄2 tspgaram masala
• 1⁄2 tsp ground turmeric
• 1 tsp dried fenugreek leaves (kasurimethi – see Know-how)
• 1 tbsp double cream
• 2 small courgettes (about 350g total weight)
• 50g gram flour (chickpea flour, also known as besan

Method

We will start with preparing the curry first, take a pan and keep it on flame. After it’s a little heated put some chopped green chillies into it. Then add chopped onions and cook it for 10 minutes until its turns golden brown in colour. Add garlic and ginger too and cook for another minute.

L’Officiel India DigitalRead L’Officiel India in the digital libraryEvery issue and every cover story, on TCG Media.Read now

Take a grinder and make tomato puree out of two or three tomatoes, then cook it for 10 minutes in the pan. After the mixture cools down, add little water, sugar, salt and spices and again heat it for approximate 5 minutes.

After the curry preparation is done, time to make koftas. Start with grate the courgettes and squeeze it and allow the excess water to drain. Take the remaining courgettes into a bowl, mix it with gram flour, and add spice and salt to the mixture. You can also put amchoor to add flavours.

After the kofta mixture is prepared, start making the balls out of it, and give it a shape by pressing it slightly into patties.

Once the patties are done, heat a frying pan, and fry the koftas slightly in low to medium heat. Remember that the flame should be medium so that you don’t burn the most important part of the dish.

Lastly, put the koftas in the curry as you serve the yummy Courgette kofta to your guests and family. You can serve it with rice or chapatti both.