Ingredients:
For the Kofta :
450 gm / 1 lb - raw bananas
50 gm / 1/3 cup - onions
15 gm / 4 tsp - ginger
15 gm ½ cup - coriander
5 - green chillies
3 gm / ½ tsp - white pepper powder
Salt
Ghee to deep fry
The Gravy
75 gm / 6 tbs - ghee
8 - green cardamoms
5 - cloves
1 - stick cinnamon (1-inch)
50 gm / 1/3 cup - onions
15 gm / 2 ½ tsp - ginger paste
15 gm / 2 ½ - garlic paste
500 gm / 2 ½ cup - tomatoes
5 gm / 1 tsp - red chilli powder
Salt
20 gm / 4 tsp - butter
75 ml / 1/3 cup - cream
1 tsp - honey
1 gm / ½ tsp - mace powder
Garam masala to sprinkle
Method :
- Boil bananas for 30 minutes, cool, peel and mash.
- Kofta: Peel, wash and finely chop onions.
- Scrape, wash and finely chop ginger.
- Remove stems, wash, slit, deseed and finely chop green chillies.
- Mix these chopped vegetables, white pepper, and salt with the mashed bananas.
- Divide into 16 equal portions and make balls.
- Heat ghee in a wok, and deep fry the kofta over low heat until golden brown.
- Remove and keep aside.
- Gravy: Peel, wash and chop onions.
- Wash and roughly chop tomatoes, put in a blender and make a puree.
- Heat ghee in a pot, add cardamom, cloves and cinnamon, stir over medium heat for 30 seconds, add onions and saut� until transparent.
- Add the ginger and garlic pastes, saut� until onions are light brown.
- Then add the fresh tomato puree, red chillies and salt, fry until the fat leaves the masala, add water (approx. 400 ml / 1 1/3 cups) and bring to a boil.
- Remove, pass the gravy through a soup strainer into a separate pot, return the strained gravy to the heat and bring to a boil.
- Reduce to medium heat, add butter and stir until incorporated.
- Stir in cream.
- Remove and add honey.
- Adjust the seasoning.
- Grease an oven-proof pot or casserole, arrange the kofta in it, pour on the gravy, sprinkle mace and garam masala, cover with a lid, seal with dough (or silver foil) and put on pressure in pre-heated oven for 8-10 minutes (275oF).
Break the seal (or tear off the foil) and serve from the pot (or casserole) with rice, bread/roti
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