www.facebook.com/nivedita Hara bhara kabab recipe
Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Starter
Prep Time: 15 mins | Cook time: 25 mins | Makes: 12
Prep Time: 15 mins | Cook time: 25 mins | Makes: 12
Ingredients
Potato - 2
Green peas - 3/4 cup
Spinach/ Palak - 2 cups
Green chilli - 2
Ginger - 1 small piece
Besan/ gram flour/ kadalai mavu - 2 or 3 tblsp
Garam masala powder - 1 tsp
Amchoor powder - 1 tsp
Salt - As needed
Sugar - 2 pinches
Green peas - 3/4 cup
Spinach/ Palak - 2 cups
Green chilli - 2
Ginger - 1 small piece
Besan/ gram flour/ kadalai mavu - 2 or 3 tblsp
Garam masala powder - 1 tsp
Amchoor powder - 1 tsp
Salt - As needed
Sugar - 2 pinches
How to make hara bhara kabab step by step method
- Cook potatoes, I boiled it, you can pressure cook along with green peas for 2 whistles in medium flame. Wash and clean spinach. Remove the thick stalk part.
- Boil water and add spinach along with sugar to it. Let it boil for a minute. Drain and wash with cold water to retain its green.
- Drain the green peas (I microwaved frozen peas). Grind ginger, green chilli, palak, green peas to a paste. Make sure you drain/ squeeze everything without any water.
- Crumble or grate the potato. Mix ground green paste, amchoor, garam masala powders, salt, gram flour.
- Make equal sized balls out of it. Grease your hands with water to make sure its not sticky. Make patties and arrange.
- Heat a tawa and drizzle some oil. Cook the kababs both sides to golden and crisp outside in medium flame or low flame.
Notes
- Never overcook potatoes or peas or palak as it will retain water and make the mixture gooey.
- Also do not mash potato too much. Just crumble it or grate it.
- Adding sugar to palak and washing with cold water ensures to retain its green color.
- In case its very sticky and gooey, you can add more besan but it may remain uncooked if you add too much.
- For crispy and tight kababs, make sure no water is retained in palak and spinach while grinding. You need not grind it smoothly as well.
- I tried grilling in oven too. I preheated in grill mode with a tray and placed greased kababs for 7 mins each side. If you want you can also bake at 220 deg C. The texture was crispy outside and soft inside.
I had with tamarind dates chutney store bought. Any tangy curd based dip also can go well with this.