How to make
pakistani kofta recipe
Basically, you make two things for this dish, the meatballs and the sauce. Both use their own spices and herbs, so when they are combined together, they will be full of aromatic flavour.
For the kofta, you just mix the lamb minced meat with finely chopped onion, all the spices, salt and flour. Mix and knead thoroughly so that you get a fairly-smooth textured minced-meat. If you like, you can use a food processor to mix. But make sure you don’t do it for too long. A few blitzes to process is more than enough.
As for the sauce, firstly, you fry the chopped onion. Then add in the ginger and garlic followed by the spices. Once you get the aroma of the spices you put chopped tomatoes in. You can use fresh tomatoes or canned tomatoes. Both work fine.
Ingredients
Kofta meatballs:
600 gr/ 21.16 oz lamb mince.
2 small size/ 100 gr/ 3.5 oz onions, finely chopped.
1 tsp garlic powder.
½ tsp ginger powder.
½ tsp ground cumin.
½ tsp ground coriander.
½ tsp paprika powder or chilli powder (see the note).
1 tsp ground black pepper.
¾ tsp salt.
2 tbsp plain flour/ all-purpose flour.
Curry sauce:
2 small size/ 100 gr/ 3.5 oz onions, chopped.
½ tsp whole cumin
1 tsp ground cumin.
1 tsp ground coriander.
1 tsp ground black pepper.
1 tsp paprika powder or chilli powder (see the note).
½ tsp turmeric powder.
½ cup tinned tomatoes.
1 cup of water.
¼ cup of oil.
½ inch ginger, minced.
4 garlic cloves, minced.
Instructions
1 : Mix all the ingredients for the meatballs in a bowl until all blends nicely. And shape the meat into small balls. Set aside.
2 : In a cooking pan, fry the onions. When they become translucent, sprinkle the whole cumin and let it cook further until the onions turn golden brown.
3 : Then put all other spices, ginger and garlic in the onions. Give it a stir and leave it to fry until it releases aroma.
4 : Add the tomatoes in and stir well. Put ½ cup of water and cook the spice mixture until it gets thickened. Keep checking and mixing every now and again. Try to mash the tomatoes so that you get a smooth sauce.
5 : As the curry sauce is cooking, add in the rest of the water little by little.
6 : When you have a not-too-thick and smooth sauce with oil separate from the edges, put the meatballs in, give them a stir until all the kofta is covered with the sauce and let them cook. You can put the lid on and cook at low heat.
7 : It takes about 20 minutes for the meatballs to thoroughly cook. And you can see the oil separates from the edges.
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