This one’s a complete crowd-pleaser with a combination of distinctive flavors. Spinach and cottage cheese batter stuffed with mushrooms and fried golden, dip them in a tangy tomato gravy and serve hot.

Mushroom Kofta in Tomato Gravy
Course: Main Course, Veg Starters, VegCuisine: IndianDifficulty: Medium4
servings6
hours20
minutesIngredients
Finely chopped Palak
Finely chopped garlic
1 cup crushed cottage cheese
7 big tomatoes
4 sticks cinnamon
2 tsp garlic paste
2 tsp ginger paste
4 green chilies
1 tsp black peppercorns
1 cup of cashew nuts
1/2 tbsp wheat flour
1 tsp jeera powder
A pinch of cinnamon powder
1/2 cup of cream
1 tsp chilli powder
2 tbsp desi ghee
For the filling:
2 tsp ginger paste
1 cup white button mushrooms
10 finely chopped green chilies
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 tsp honey
Cooking oil
salt to taste
water as required
Directions
- Wash and Cut palak leaves. take pan and heat oil, add garlic, palak and salt.
- Add paneer, corn flour, wheat flour and salt. mix it with Palak and make dough. flatten the dough and make small koftas.
- For the filling:
- Take oil in a pan, add ginger paste, green chilies, finely chopped white button mushrooms and salt. saute and remove from fire.
- Add lemon juice and honey and mix well.
- Now put the filling inside the koftas, seal the edges and fry them.
- For the filling:
- Chop the green chilies. cut the tomatoes into quarters.
- Take desi ghee in a pan, add cinnamon, garlic paste, ginger paste, black pepper corns, tomatoes and salt and saute.
- Now add water and leave it to simmer. once the puree is completely cooked, leave it to cool and extract the juice.
- Take oil in a pan, fry cashew nuts. mix them with cold water and grind them to make a soft paste.
- Heat desi ghee in a pan and add garlic paste and ginger paste. when garlic turns brown, add tomato puree, cashew paste and jeera powder.
- Stir and leave it to simmer.
- Now add cinnamon powder, cream and red chilli powder. stir well and add the koftas.
- Cook for some time and serve hot.