Chicken Kofta Curry/ Chicken Balls Curry/ Fried Meat Balls Curry

A few weeks back, I made some chicken cheese balls for my family. They all loved it very much and my baba asked me to make a kofta curry some day. I made it finally on this Saturday night. The entire process of making kofta curry is quite time consuming and really needs patience. There are several stages of making the curry; here I’ll describe each and every stage one by one.

Ingredients for chicken balls: chicken minced, finely chopped onion, garlic paste, small pieces of chilli, coriander powder, salt, cumin powder, black pepper powder, corn flour, a little amount of oil of your choice.

Ingredients for the curry: chopped onions, ginger garlic paste, chilli paste, tomato sauce, curd, cumin powder, coriander powder, ajwain, garam masala powder, bay leaf, salt, turmeric, black pepper powder ( if you like it to be spicy).

Stage 1# All the ingredients of the balls should be mixed together except corn flour. Take a small amount of the mixture between your palms and form medium sized balls out of it and set it aside. Make balls out of the whole mixture. In a flat dish, put some corn flour and roll the balls in it one by one so that each ball gets the coating of the corn flour.

Balls formed out of minced chicken

Balls coated with corn flour

Stage 2# Take a deep kadhai and fill it with refined oil. Bring it to the gas and wait for the oil to get hot. When the oil is hot enough, drop the balls in it and fry until lite golden. Do not fry it so much that it turns out to be hard. Keep the balls in a pot where all the extra oils can go out.

Frying balls

Fried balls

Stage 3# In a mixture grind all the items of the curry except, onion and bay leaf.

Stage 4# Take a pan, add some oil of your choice, bay leaf and fry the onions until golden. Add some salt and turmeric. And gradually add all the grinded masala. Let it cook for few minutes. After it starts secreting oil from it, add water in it, and wait until it starts boiling. The moment it starts boiling, add the balls in it and cover the lid. Let it cook for 5 to 10 minutes with flame turned high.

Balls added to the masala while it was boiling.

Chicken kofta curry

Stage 5# Open the lid, add some ghee and sugar in it (it enhances the colour). Turn off the heat. Serve the dish hot with chapathhi, parantha, polao, fried rice.

P.S# The same dish can be made with mutton also, just add some ginger paste in the balls mixture. :)