
Ingredients:
• For the koftas:
• 1 cup – soy beans
• 1 – large Potato
• 1 – small Onion
• 1 to 2 – green chillies, finely sliced
• Few Cilantro sprigs for garnish
• Juice and zest of one Lemon
• Salt to taste
• About 1/2 to 1 cup – soya chunks
• For gravy:
• 1 – onion, chopped finely
• 1 tbsp – ginger-garlic paste
• 1 tsp – Cumin seeds
• 1 tbsp – Tomato paste
• 1/4 to 1/2 cup – Tomato puree
• 1/4 tsp – Turmeric
• 1 tsp – Garam Masala
• 1 – Bay Leaf
• Salt to taste
Method:
- Soak the soy beans overnight. Cook them in a pressure cooker.
- Steam the potato in the steamer with the skin.
- Now mix all the ingredients for the koftas together except the soya chunks.
- Mash them with your hands or pulse it in food processor.
- Spread the soy chunks on a plate and coat the balls with soy flour.
- Bake for about 10 to 15 minus at 400 deg Fahrenheit in an oven.
- Heat 1/4 tsp oil in a skillet.
- Add and fry onions till light pink.
- Saute the cumin seeds along with onions, ginger garlic paste and the spices together for a minute until soft.
- Add the tomato paste and the puree.
- Add enough water to make sufficient gravy and boil.
- Thicken it up with a little soy flour/corn-starch and bring it to a simmer.
- Remove the koftas from the oven and pour half the sauce over each of the koftas until they are soaked in the gravy.
- Bake them for another 10 mins and before serving top with remaining gravy.
- Recipe courtesy: Dhivya Karthik
- http://chefinyou.com/