CHICKEN KOFTA

INGREDIENTS

Chicken minced meat - 250 grams
Gramflour or cornflour - 50 grams
Green chillies - 4
Onion - 3 medium sized
Garlic - 6-7 flakes
Ginger - half inch cube
Coriander leaves - a small bunch(25 grams)
Tomato puree - 50 grams
Garam masala powder (Mixture of black and green cardamoms, cinnamon, cloves, mace, jayatri, white pepper corns and white cumin seeds) - 1 tsp
Salt - 1-2 tsp
Oil - 1 cup
Cumin and coriander powder - 1 tsp

PROCEDURE

Put chicken minced in wok and cover in water. Boil on high flame for 10 minutes or till the water dries up. Drain out water if any by putting boiled minced meat on a colander. When cool enough, mix with the meat - half tsp salt, 1 chopped green chilly, 1 chopped onion, 2 flakes of garlic and 2 tbsp of gramflour or cornflour. Shape into lime sized balls. Roll the balls evenly in gramflour or cornflour. Heat the oil in a wok. Shift in oil as many balls as possible when oil smokes. Fry on high flame till light brown. Keep fried balls on a tissue.

Drain away most of the oil from the wok leaving behind only 4-5 tsp of oil. Grind the 2 onions, 4 garlic flakes and ginger into a paste. Heat the oil in the wok. When oil smokes add the slit green chillies. Now add the paste of ginger, garlic and onion. Add the tomato puree too. Fry all on high flame stirring continuously till light brown in color. Add 1 cup of water. When it boils add the chopped coriander leaves,the garam masala and last of all the koftas. Shut off the heat. If you want a thicker gravy add 1 tsp or more of gramflour paste to the boiling gravy. Your chicken koftas are ready.
Serve hot with rice or roti. This is a delicious side dish.

Posted by Keya