Ingredients: 2 Sweet Potatoes – skin peeled and cut into chunks,1 cup Spinach – chopped,2 tablespoons Gram flour (besan),1 Onion – chopped,4 cloves Garlic – chopped,1 teaspoon Dried Thyme Leaves,2 teaspoons Dried oregano,2 teaspoon Red Chilli flakes,1 teaspoon Black pepper powder,1 Lemon juice,Salt – to taste,Sunflower Oil,1/2 cup Coriander (Dhania) Leaves,1/2 cup Mint Leaves (Pudina),4 cloves Garlic,1 teaspoon Black pepper powder,1/2 teaspoon Cumin powder (Jeera),1 Red Chilli flakes,2 teaspoons Dried oregano,Salt – to taste,1/2 cup Coconut milk
Time in minutes: 50 Servings: 4 Course: Lunch Diet: Vegetarian
Instructions: To begin making the Spinach and Sweet Potato Kofta in Green Curry Recipe, we will boil the sweet potato in a pressure cooker with water for about 4 whistle. Till they are just soft. If you over boil the sweet potato then it will be hard to shape them to balls. Heat a kadai with oil, add chopped garlic and saute until they soften. Add chopped onions and saute them till they turn translucent.Add spinach leaves and saute till the spinach leaves leave out water and completely dries up. Add all the seasonings mentioned including dried thyme leaves, dried oregano, red chilli flakes and black pepper powder.Add in the cooked sweet potato and sprinkle salt according to your palate and also add besan flour. By using potato masher, mash them well and combine the mixture together.Switch off the heat and allow it cool down. Shape them into medium sized balls and keep it aside.Heat a kuzhi paniyaram pan with little oil in each cavities. Place the kofta balls in the pan’s cavities; drizzle the kofta’s with a little oil and pan fry them until golden brown on both sides.You will have to flip the kofta balls so they fry on all sides evenly. Keep it aside.To make the CurryGrind the coriander leaves, mint leaves and garlic in a mixer with water to a smooth paste.Heat a big casserole and add the ground paste, with all the seasonings and add coconut milk. Leave it to boil.Check for salt and adjust the seasonings as per your requirements. Switch off the heat and add the koftas one by one and serve hot.Serve the Spinach and Sweet Potato Kofta in Green Curry Recipe along with Butter Garlic Naan Recipe and Kelfulachi Bhaji Recipe (Banana Floweret Stir Fry Recipe) for a complete meal.