Nargisi Egg Kofta Recipe

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Directions

• Soak almonds in warm water and put in microwave for 2 minutes and peel off the skin.
• Soak poppy seeds for 30 minutes and make a paste of peeled almonds and poppy seeds.
• Hard boil the eggs in enough water and once done, remove the skin and keep it aside. 
• Dry roast cumin, coriander seeds along with peppercorns till they start releasing aroma and coarsely crush these in mortar and pestle.
• Dry roast chickpea flour or besan till it turns golden in color and starts releasing aroma and make a paste of ginger and garlic.

For Egg Kofta

• In the minced meat, add ginger garlic paste, chili powder, salt, 1 tablespoon of crushed cumin, coriander, and peppercorns, roasted chickpea flour (besan), sliced onions and egg.
• Mix all this together in a blender so that you have finely minced meat.
• Grease your palms with little water and take minced meat in your palm and coat egg with meat.
• Meat should be slightly more than a size of the egg so that you get a good coating of meat around the eggs.
• Heat oil in a deep pan and when oil is hot, transfer eggs to it and fry till golden brown. make sure eggs are not over fried.
• In case you want to bake these eggs, keep meat coated eggs in greased baking tray.
• Transfer the baking tray in preheated oven at 200'C around 400 F for 30-35 minutes or till cooked.

For The Curry

• Heat oil in a pan or kadhai and add thinly sliced onion and fry till golden brown in color and take them out on a paper towel..
• Make a paste of fried onions with yogurt in a mixer.
• In the pan with oil add the paste of almonds and poppy seeds and cook for a minute.
• Add ginger garlic paste, red chili powder, and turmeric powder, and cook it.
• Once masala starts to stick to the pan, add onion and yogurt and cook for 2-3 minutes on a low flame.
• Add water to the masala mixture to make curry and adjust the quantity of water to make the gravy consistency of your choice.
• Add kofta in curry and let it simmer for 2-3 minutes and roll gently without breaking the koftas.
• If you like, you can keep koftas ready and add in curry just when serving.
• Garnish with chopped coriander.

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Meghna Nath