Beet paneer kofta curry

A dish is usually cooked up in the mind before being cooked in the kitchen; that's the story of a home chef! Variety is the spice of life and good food nourishes the soul. On that note, those cooked beets in the fridge needed to go in a dish besides a salad or beet raita. The blanched spinach in the freezer was doing nothing more than taking up space. Time to get them married off in a dish!
The gravy, made in the Instant pot is super easy with no saute needed there is no compromise on flavors.

Ingredients
KOFTA-

• Grated Boiled beets (I cook them in Instant pot)- 2
• Grated Boiled potato- 1
• Grated paneer- 1/2 cup
• Corn startch- 1 tbsp (can substitute with all purpose flour or skip altogether)
• Chopped green chillies and giner- 1 tbsp
• Oil to grease the Appe pan
• Salt to taste

CURRY/GRAVY-

• Tomatoes chopped- 2 large
• Green chilly- 1
• Ginger- 1 small piece
• Garlic- 2 cloves 
• Onion chopped- 1
• Butter or ghee- 1tbsp
• Cumin- 1 tsp
• Spinach (optional)- 1 cup
• Cashew pieces- 2-3 tbsp
• Spice potli- cardamom, star anise, black pepper corn, cinnamon, cloves wrapped and tied in a small cloth pouch. (Can substitute with a tsp of garam masala)
• Bay leaf- 1
• Water- 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Sugar- pinch
• Sour cream, heavy cream or plain Greek yogurt 

Method

Combine all the Kofta ingredients in a mixing bowl and form a dough. Heat the appe pan with some oil in each section and place the kofta balls, cover and cook on medium flame for about 4-5 minutes on one side. Flip and cook for another 2-3 minutes. Kofta can be fried alternately. 

Place all the gravy ingredients in the Instant pot except the sour cream/heavy cream. Cook on high pressure for 7 minutes. Release the pressure after 10 minutes and blend in a blender after removing 

the spice pouch and the bay leaf. Transfer to a pan on the stove top and heat. Adjust salt as needed and a pinch sugar to balance the flavors.

Place the Kofta in the gravy right before serving and garnish with sour cream/heavy cream or greek yogurt. Enjoy with Roti or Naan (or by itself if on a low carb diet!!). 

NOTE- The gravy can be made in pressure cooker or stove top as well. 

Place all 

Combine all the gravy ingr