Hara Bhara Kabab is a popular Indian appetiser made with Spinach, green peas, green pepper, potatoes and spices. How about dunking some kebab in chutney/ tomato ketchup or serve it as a filler inside your slider buns.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time30 minutesmins
Total Time10 minutesmins
Course: Appetizer, Side Dish
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: kabab, kebab, vegan appetiser, vegetarian side dish
Servings: 15Kebab
Calories: 19kcal
Author: Sandhya Hariharan
Ingredients
500gspinach
1Cupfrozen green peas
1Large Green pepper or capsicumchopped into chunks
3/4tspClove - Cardamom- Cinnamon powderor 1/4 Tsp of each powder
1tspCumin Seeds
Salt to taste
Instructions
Blanch the spinach. Squeeze out the water and set it aside.
Heat Oil in a kadai, add the cumin seeds. Once they splutter add in grated ginger, green chillies . Saute for 1 minute.
Add chopped Green peppers and saute for about 2 minutes. Its time to add frozen green peas to the pepper mixture. Saute for another 5 minutes.If the peas are not tender, you may cook for a little longer.Add the spinach, coriander leaves along with dry spice powders and mix well. Saute until all the moisture is reduced. Ideally the mixture needs to stick to the pan. Remove from heat and set the mixture said to cool down. Grind them into a rough paste in your blender.
To the Green paste, add 1 Large grated boiled potato, breadcrumbs and cornflour. Mix them with a ladle until they combine well. Shape them into round patties, dust them into the breadcrumbs.
Heat oil in a pan. Shallow fry them for 3-4 minutes or until bottom surface turns light brown. Turn the kebabs and repeat the process.
Repeat the process for the remaining 14 of them.serve hara bhara kebab hot with chutney’s.
Notes
The mixture for hara bhara kebab needs to be well done, not runny. Even after adding 1 potato, if the mixture needs more binding agent, do add one more potato and pop them back to the pan. Saute until most of the moisture is removed.For preparing Clove - Cardamom - Cinnamon Powder, dry roast the whole spices in equal proportion(1/4 cup each). Allow it to cool and powder them. You may store them and use them in other delicacies.