Ingredients:
3 or 4 green bananas
2 boiled potatoes
1 medium sized onion roughly chopped
1 or 2 green chillies finely chopped
A handful of besan (gram flour)/ maida (fine wheat flour)/ atta (wheat flour). We used atta (KK)
6 or 7 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp whole cumin seeds
2 washed and split bay leaves
3 whole cardamoms, 2 cloves and an 1 inch cinnamon stick
paste of 1 medium onion
1 tbsp garlic paste
Tomato puree of 1 tomato
A quarter tsp each of turmeric powder and red chilli powder
1 tsp cumin powder
1tbsp powdered garam masala
2 cups of water
salt to taste (1/2 teaspoon)
Step 1
1. Cut the green bananas, with their skin, in 3 or 4 pieces.
2. Cut the potatoes, with their skin, in two halves.
3. Boil the cut pieces of the green bananas and the potatoes together in a pressure cooker. Throw away the water after they are boiled. Be careful that the black water, due to high iron content in the green bananas, does not spill on your clothes as the marks will never go away even after washing the clothes
Step 2:
4. Peel the skin of the boiled green bananas. Mash the green bananas well. Add salt, chopped onions and green chillies to the mix.
5. Take a handful of besan/ maida/ atta and mix it with the mashed boiled bananas as a binding agent.
6. Now form medium shaped balls with the banana dough with the mix and keep them aside.
7. Heat 4 tbsp of white oil in a non sticky pan. After that, lower the heat.
8. Put the banana balls in the oil and fry them in medium heat. Turn them over when one side becomes brown. You can also fry them in batches if you cannot manage all of them at a time.
9. When they look golden brown, take them off the fire and set them aside in a bowl.
10. In a wok, put 2 tbsp white oil and heat it up. You can add 1 more tbsp oil later, if you need.
11. Lower the heat and put the whole cumin seeds, bay leaves, crushed cardamoms, cloves and the cinnamon stick (broken into pieces).
12. When nice flavour starts coming out, put the onion paste in the oil and stir. After a while, add the garlic paste and stir.
13. Then put the peeled boiled potatoes, cut into cubes, and fry them along with the onion and garlic paste.
14. Pour the turmeric, red chilli and cumin powders (made into a paste with some water) on the potatoes.
14. Stir the spices for a while along with other things. Then add the tomato puree. Keep stirring till the oil gets separated.
15. Pour 2 cups of water and add salt to taste. Let it boil on medium heat for sometime.
16. Then put all the fried balls in the gravy.
17. Immediately sprinkle garam masala powder. Stir for a minute and then take the wok off the gas and cover it for 5 minutes.
18. Please do not boil the balls for more than 1 minute as they will turn soggy. The banana balls soak up quite a bit of gravy. So make allowance for that.
19. Pour the banana 'kofta' curry in a bowl and serve it with roti/paratha/puri or rice
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