Nargesi Kofta (নারগেসি কোফতা)

Serves 4 people.

Ingredients:

For Kofta: Ground meat (chicken/ beef)- 1 cup (**Tips: Try to use the meat with no fat to make ground meat and grind them 2-3 times so that it become soft and sticky.Otherwise the kofta will breakdown during frying.) Hard Boiled egg - 2 Ginger paste- 1/2 ts Garlic paste- 1/2 ts Cumin powder- 1/2 ts Red chili powder- 1/2 ts Garam masala powder- 1/2 ts Tomato Sauce - 2 ts (optional) Green chili (finely chopped)- 1 ts Green onion (finely chopped)- 2 ts Coriander leaf (finely chopped)- 2 ts  Salt- 1 ts or to your choice Oil- for deep fry

For Gravy: Onion (chopped)- 1/4 cup Bay leaf- 1 piece Cinnamon- 1 stick Cardamom- 2 pieces Black cardamom- 1 piece Onion paste- 1 Tbs Ginger paste- 1/2 Tbs Garlic Paste- 1/2 Tbs Tomato paste- 1/2 cup Almond/ Cashew paste- 1/2 Tbs Cumin powder- 1/2 ts Red chili powder- 1/2 ts Garam masala powder- 1/2 ts Mace powder- 1/4 ts Nutmeg Powder- 1/4 ts Salt - 1 ts or to your taste Keoda water- 3/4 drop (optional) Sugar- 1 ts Milk- 1/4 cup Oil- 1/4 cup Ghee/Clarified Butter- 1 Tbs Green chili (slit in the middle)- 2 pieces

Procedure:

1. Take the Ground meat in a mixing bowl and add all the kofta ingredients except egg and oil. Mix them well and set aside to marinate for around half an hour.

2. Now take half amount of ground meat mixture and flatten it in your palm like a cutlet. Put one hard boiled egg in the center and wrap the meat tightly around it. Repeat this with the other egg and meat. Refrigerate the kofta for around 2-3 hours.

3. Heat oil in a deep-fryer or large saucepan. When oil is heated enough, add one kofta carefully in the oil and fry it until the kofta become light brown color and slightly crispy on the outside. It may take 10 to 15 minutes. When it is done take out on a paper tawel to soak the excess oil. Fry the other kofta in the same way.
4. Now heat 1/4 cup of oil in a pan to make the gravy for kofta. Add the chopped onion and fry them until they become light brown in color.  Then add all the masala (Gravy ingredients from 2-16) and stir them well. When the oil starts to separate from the masala, add 1/4 cup water and stir it. Then cover the pan and let it cook for 5 minutes in medium heat. Now add the milk, green chili and  ghee/ clarified butter in the gravy and stir it well. Then add the fried kofta in the gravy, add the keoda water, sugar and stir it to coat the kofta with gravy. Then cover the pan and let it cook for another 5-6 minutes.

5. When it is done, take out the kofta from the gravy on a serving dish, carefully cut the both kofta in half and then spread the gravy on top of them. Then serve your Nargesi kofta with Polao or any kind of Biryani.