The Complete Ayurvedic Cookbook - The Eumundi Medicine Man

Ingredients:
VEGETABLE KOFTA BALLS
Great for spaghetti and pasta in 20 minutes!
Zucchini, cauliflower, potato and cabbage. Chickpea
flour, Self raising flour, Saindhava Ayurvedic Rock Salt,
Turmeric Powder, Ghee for deep frying.
Quick Sauce: Ghee, Asafoetida, Cloves, Cumin Seeds,
water or whey.
Parsley, Basil or Corriander, Parmesan Cheese.
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Simply grate zucchini,cauliflower and potato. Shred the cabbage - total veggies
should be about one cup per person. Add a little chickpea flour and self raising flour -
no more than a level tablespoon per cup of veggies. The idea is to use just enough
flour to hold the mix together. If there is too much the Koftas are like flour balls, too
little and they fall apart ... hey better to use too little. Mix the flour and veggies with a
heaped teaspoon of Ayurvedic salt and equal turmeric powder, mix well.
Begin to heat your ghee for deep frying.
Take a walnut size amount of kofta mix, squeeze out any liquid and mold into a ball,
place on a plate, repeat until all the kofta are lined up.
When the ghee is very hot, close to smoking but not, pick up each kofta, squeeze once
more to bind them and remove any more excess liquid, then slip into the hot ghee,
repeat.
When they have settled in and developed a skin, gently turn them. Turn down the
ghee slightly and cook for 6-8 minutes.
Drain in a colander and on kitchen paper if you wish. You may have to do two
batches through the ghee.
Here is a quick sauce if you don't have time to make the fresh tomato sauce on page
41.
Place ghee in fry pan on a medium heat, add a pinch of Asafoetida, a little Clove and
Cumin powder. Immediately add a cup of water (or even better, whey) then add
organic tomato paste and a ½ teaspoon of salt. Bring to the boil and turn off.
The koftas will soak up liquid so if the sauce is a little thin do not worry. When ready
to serve add the cooling or cooled koftas into the boiled sauce. Add a some greens on
top, basil, parsley or coriander. Add parmesan cheese also if you like. Serve with
Spaghetti or rice - Ayurveda meets Italian!
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