SWEET POTATO & POTATO PANNER KOFTHA

Ingredients :

Sweet Potato - 1

Potatoes - 2

Panner (Cottage Cheese) - 50gms

Onion - 2

Tomato - 3

Ginger Garlic Paste- 2 tsp

Spring Onion - 3 strings

Green Chillies - 2

Turmeric powder - 1 tsp

Red Chilly Powder - 1tsp

Jeera Powder - 1 tsp

Coriander Powder - 1tsp

Garam Masala - 2 tsp

Cashewnut - 6 pcs

Sugar - 1/2tsp

Salt
Refined Oil - Enough to fry and saute
Water
Coriander Leaves - a small bunch

Method / Vidhie:
1. Boil sweet potato, potatoes. Cool them peel them off and mash them well.
2. To them add the panner. Crumble the panner and add it to them.
3. Add salt, garam masala, few chopped coriander leaves and mix them well into balls and flatten them.
4. Now heat oil in a deep frying pan and fry them when the oil is nice hot.
5. Once the balls are dropped inside the oil slow the flame and fry them for1min then rise the flame so that   the balls also cook well from inside.
6. Drain excess oil and keep aside.

To make gravy:
1.Finely chop the onions
2.Slit the green chillies and de-seed them
3.Finely chop the spring onion green and onion part.
4.Boil the tomatoes in water. Peel of the skin and puree them.
5. Use red sour and sweet tomatoes.
6. Grind the cashew nut into paste and keep aside
6. In a pan 3 tbs of oil. Add onions, green chillies and saute for 3 min.
7. Once the onion turns light brown add ginger & garlic paste.
8. Fry till the raw smell fades away. Now add the tomato puree.
9. Add turmeric powder, red chilly powder, jeera powder, coriander powder, salt, sugar and saute them till oil leave the mixture.
10. Now add enough water to the gravy. Water to added on the measurement of how much gravy is required.
11. Now to thicken it add the kaju/cahewnut paste and stir well.

Finish:
Pour the gravy on to the balls which were fried before and garnish with green coriander and spring onions.

This dish goes well with Spring Onion Rice (This recipe can be found in the main menu page),
Jeera Rice, phulka, Butter Nan.