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Kofta Biryani (Meatball Biryani)

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Kofta Biryani is a customised version of Biryani, mostly in Pakistan you get mutton biryani, beef biryani and chicken biryani, so I tried to make something innovative, so here is Kofta Biryani that can also be called meatball biryani. Do try this and I am sure that you are going to love this one …

Believe me this is the world’s tastiest biryani, I am eaing it rite now and the wonderful flavours that are coming are forcing me to eat it more, its lovely, do do do try this if you realy want to enjoy your day …

Ingredients:

RICE

  • 1 ½ cups of basmati rice
  • Water to soak and boil
  • Few drops of yellow colour
  • Few strands of saffron

FOR MEATBALL MASALA

  • 6 – 8 meatballs
  • Oil for frying
  • 1 onion chopped
  • 1 tomato chopped
  • Few cumin seeds
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 green cardamom
  • 1 black cardamom
  • Few curry leaves
  • 1 dried red chilli
  • A piece of cinnamon
  • 2 – 4 cloves
  • 4 black peppercorns
  • 3 tbspns yogurt
  • ¼ cup oil
  • 4 – 6 tbspns homemade Biryani masala

Procedure:

-Boil salted water and add soaked rice. When they are 80 – 90 % cooked drain them and keep aside.

-Heat oil and add whole garam masala along with some cumin seeds. When they begin to splatter and onions and fry on low medium heat until they lose their stiffness.

-Add tomatoes and mix. When tomatoes are cooked add 1 tbspn of Biryani masala and mix. Add yogurt and rest of the Biryani masala and cook on low heat for 2 minutes.

-Heat oil for frying and fry meatballs until they are slightly golden.

-Take them out on an absorbent paper and then add them to the curry.

-Do not use water in your curry.

-Mix and let them simmer. When gravy is pretty thick add rice.

-Add few drops of yellow food colour and a pinch of saffron strands and cover your dish with an airtight lid.

-Let it cook for another 5 minutes on very low heat.

-Lift and serve.

Outcome:

Tasty kofta Biryani is ready to serve.

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Ayesha's Kitchen

Tips:

-Serve immediately.

-Use non stick, thick bottomed deep pan to make Biryani.

-If using the normal stainless steel one then be careful while cooking it covered. Place you pan on a flat pan and then cook.

-Use lid that is airtight.

-For more detailed tips visit tips page.

-Click on the links to find out the recipes of meatballs and Biryani masala.

Servings:

This will serve 4 persons easily.

Narigisi Kofta

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Nargisi Kofta is a famous delicacy of Pakistan, women over there used to do these kind of experiments but this was one of their successful inventions, people appreciated it and now this dish is often served on weddings or other occasions, do try them and let me know your remarks, if you cant understand anything please ask me, email me (About page) …

Ingredients:

FOR KOFTAS

  • ½ kg chicken/lamb/ beef mincemeat
  • Some salt
  • ¼ tspn turmeric powder
  • 4 – 8 dried red chillies (even 12 if you want really spicy)
  • 1 tbspn dried coriander whole
  • A small (1 cm) pc. Of cinnamon stick
  • ½ tspn nigella seeds
  • ¼ tspn carom seeds
  • 1 green cardamom pod
  • A pinch of garam masala powder
  • 4 – 6 hard boiled eggs
  • Oil for frying

FOR CURRY

  • ¼ cup oil
  • An onion chopped
  • A tomato chopped
  • ½ lemon squeezed
  • Salt to taste (keep in mind, meatballs also have salt in them)
  • ½ tspn red chilli powder
  • 1 dried red chilli
  • 1 lemon squeezed
  • ½ tspn funnel seeds (saunf) (powdered)
  • ¼ tspn nigella seeds
  • ½ tspn cumin seeds
  • 2 – 4 dried curry leaves
  • 1 big green chilli shopped
  • Few coriander leaves chopped
  • ¼ tspn methi dana
  • ½ tspn dry whole coriander
  • 2 – 4 cracked black peppercorns
  • Some water
  • 3 tbspns yogurt

Procedure:

-Combine all the dry spices given for meatballs in a spice blender and make a fine powder.

-Add this powder to mincemeat and mix well, use food processor if needed.

-Now very carefully, take some mincemeat and make it into egg sized balls. Now coat this mincemeat around boiled egg and deep fry in hot oil.

-When its golden brown in colour take it out and keep aside.

-Do the same with the remaining eggs and mincemeat.

-Now for curry, heat oil and add curry leaves, cumin seeds, cracked coriander and dried red chilli. When they begin to splatter add onions. Cook for some time and then add all the spices except nigella seeds, saunf and methi dana.

-Blend nigella seeds, saunf and methi dana in spice blender to make fine powder. Keep it aside.

-Now add tomatoes in the curry and mix well until they lose their stiffness, cook them on low heat.

-Now add water and let it simmer. Add yogurt, powdered masala and lemon juice and let it simmer for some time. Add fried koftas and with a spoon pour over the gravy on it.

-Cook on low heat for 2 minutes and then garnish with coriander leaves and green chillies and serve hot with chapattis.

Outcome:

Tasty nargisi koftas are ready to serve.

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Ayesha's Kitchen

Tips:

-I like these koftas with simmered curry, if you want to make a bit gravy kind of thing, add 1 cup of water.

-Adjust salt and pepper according to your will.

Servings:

This will serve 3 – 4 persons easily.

Keema Omelette

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Keema Omelette is a unique recipe of Pakistan. Like we make keema samosa, keema kachori, keema paratha, etc. same we make keema omelette. It is like keema Filling is wrapped in egg wrap. Do try this, its awesome …

Ingredients:

Procedure:

-Heat oil and spread it all over the pan.

-Crack two eggs in a bowl and beat well.

-Now pour this mixture on the pan and cook it on low heat without any disturbance.

-Now when it is a little bit cooked, spread mincemeat all over it. Now Fold and turn Frequently. When its golden red dish it out and serve hot with bread or Fork.

Outcome:

Tasty treat For non vegs is ready to serve.

 

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Ayesha's Kitchen

Tips:

-Do not add salt because it is already there in mincemeat.

Servings:

This will serve 1 – 2 person.

Keema* Biryani

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Keema Biryani is one of the special dishes of Ayesha’s Kitchen, believe me its awesome, i made it yesterday and my family loved it, do try this and let me know about your comments …

Ingredients:

  • 1 ½ cups of basmati rice
  • Few drops of yellow Food colour
  • Some water to soak and boil
  • Few drops of kewra essence

FOR KEEMA

  • ½ kg mincemeat
  • An onion chopped
  • A tomato chopped
  • 1 green chilli slitted
  • 1 cup water
  • A cardamom pod
  • A green cardamom pod
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • ¼ tspn cumin seeds
  • A small piece of bay leaf or few curry leaves
  • 2 – 4 peppercorns
  • 4 – 8 tbspn olive oil

MASALA POWDER

  • ½ tspn methi dana
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 big cardamom whole
  • 2 pcs. Cinnamon
  • 3 green cardamom pods
  • 4 – 6 black peppercorns
  • 8 – 10 dried red chillies or pods
  • 4 – 6 curry leaves
  • ½ tspn dry coriander
  • 1 tspn cumin seeds
  • ¼ tspn turmeric

Procedure:

-Take all the ingredients given for masala in a spice blender and make fine powder. Keep aside

-Soak rice For at least 10 minutes (no more nor less).

-Heat some water in a vessel, add some salt and boil it. When it comes to boil add soaked rice and when they are all white and 80 percent cooked drain the water and keep them aside.

-Now in a separate vessel heat oil something around 4 – 6 or 8 tbspns and add whole garam masala or all the spices that are given (not the powdered one). When they begin to splatter add onions.

-When onions are slightly brown in colour add tomatoes and cook them on low heat, avoid adding water at this stage. Add powdered masala and mix well. When tomatoes lose their stiffness add mincemeat and fry for some time.

-Add a cup of water and cook it covered. When the water begins to simmer and a dry mixture of mincemeat is formed add boiled rice layer by layer. Add few drops of yellow food colour and kewra essence and cook it covered on very low heat.

-After 5 – 10 minutes when rice are 99 percent cooked serve your Biryani hot with some mint sauce and Fresh salad.

Outcome:

Tasty and mouth watering Keema* Biryani is ready to serve.

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Ayesha’s Kitchen

Tips:

-Avoid adding too much of kewra just a small drop and same goes with food colour.

-See tips for Biryani rice given on Tips page.

Servings:

This will serve 4 persons easily.

Keema Samosa

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Keema samosa is one of the customised Forms of samosas, mainly they are stuffed with potatoes and peas but just to try something different, I think this is the best thing to have …

Ingredients:

  • Oil For Frying

FOR FILLING

FOR PASTRY

  • Samosa dough
  • Some lose Flour

Procedure:

-Take a little bit of samosa dough and Flat it with the roller pin. Use lose Flour if necessary.

-Make a thin Chapatti like thing. (Thin and round disc like shape)

-With a sharp knife divide it into half.

-Now place a tbspn of roasted mincemeat in the middle of the half chapatti.

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Ayesha's Kitchen

-Now take point “A” and pin it with point “P”. Like This,

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Ayesha's Kitchen

-Then take point “B” and seal it with point “P” too.

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Ayesha's Kitchen

-Press the seal with your Fingers.

-Do the same with others.

-Heat oil and deep Fry them.

Outcome:

Tasty Keema* samosas* are ready to be served.

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Ayesha's Kitchen

Tips:

-Use lose Flour only when its needed.

Servings:

This will serve 6 – 12 persons easily.

Keema* Paratha*

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Keema Paratha is a lovely, non – vegetarian stuffed paratha and believe ,me its awesome …

Ingredients:

FOR FILLING

FOR PARATHAS        

Procedure:

-Marinade mincemeat with all the ingredients given under the heading of Filling. In a thick bottomed pot, place this whole mixture and cook it covered on very low heat.

-After 30 – 45 minutes, it will be cooked, take it out in a plate and allow it cool.

-Now make a kiwi Fruit sized ball and roll it on a lightly Floured surface. Place some Keema*, mixture on it and close all of its edges with Filling trapped in.

-Now roll it again into a nice chapatti and place it on hot Flat pan, tawa*.

-After sometime change its side and spread 1 tbspn of ghee on it and then change its side again.

-On the other side spread 1 tbspn of ghee and then change its side again.

-Change its sides Frequently and when it is hot red, remove From heat and serve hot with yogurt or sour cream.

-Do the same with others.

Outcome:

Tasty Keema parathas are ready to be served.

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Ayesha's Kitchen

Tips:

-Cook meat well.

-No need of adding water while cooking mincemeat.

Servings

This will serve 4 persons easily.