Oven Baked Potato Aloo Kofta
Updated Apr. 29th, 2024
Looking for your new favourite Indian dish? Look no further! While these potato aloo kofta balls are surprisingly easy to make, you’ll feel happier eating them knowing the crispy texture comes from the work of an oven and not an artery clogging deep fryer. Serve this dish as an appetizer, or add a delicious homemade curry sauce to go with it.
- Dairy Free
- Corn Free
- Egg Free
- Vegetarian
Ingredients:
| 2 cups diced potatoes, boiled for 10-12 minutes | 1 tablespoon fresh garlic, diced | 1 tablespoon ground cumin |
| 1 cup cooked green lentils | 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, diced | 1 tablespoon fennel seeds |
| 1 cup diced cauliflower, boiled for 5 minutes | 1 tablespoon garam masala | 1 tablespoon chaat masala |
| 1 cup diced carrots, boiled for 5 minutes | 1 teaspoon salt | 2 teaspoon grapeseed oil + 2 tablespoon for rolling |
| 1 tablespoon ground coriander | 1 tablespoon turmeric | 1 tablespoon chickpea flour |
Directions
Preheat oven to 375F
- Bring a large pot of water to boil over medium heat. Add in your chopped potatoes first to give them a five-minute head start. Next add in your cauliflower and carrots. Bring to a boil until they are tender, and easily poked with a fork.
- In another small saucepan, follow the labels of your lentils and cook them. Making sure to strain the excess water, and set aside.
- While you’re waiting for the boiling, measure out 2 tablespoons of grapeseed oil, and pour onto a large plate or rolling surface. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, bring all of your ingredients together and mash thoroughly by hand of with an electric beater. The most important part of this process is to ensure all the spices and mixture becomes tacky enough to stick together – small chunks of vegetable are fine to keep.
- Using your hands, get enough dough to form a small ball. Once it is formed into the desired size (no larger than a golf ball!) roll the ball around in the plate of oil until it has a thin coating – this ensures they get a crispy outside without being deep-fried!
- Place the balls onto a baking sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes, until they are your desired crispiness.
Make It This Way
If you’re looking to make this dish paleo, swap out the potatoes for sweet potatoes and use almond flour instead of chickpea flour. Remove the lentils altogether.
This would make the perfect appetizer to your Indian night, or it would make a great addition to add into your curry sauce instead of meat. Just be sure to add them last so they don’t get too soggy.
Try This
Turn this into an Indian-style vegan burger by creating patties instead of ball-shapes. Serve with your favourite toppings and enjoy!
These Oven Baked Potato Aloo Kofta looks delicious! I love that it is vegan, and baked! I find it much easier on my stomach when things are baked and such a great idea to have an easy and healthy option. I love potatoes and lentils and these look like they would be the perfect thing to make in bulk, freeze, and use for meal prep! I will have to find a curry sauce to put on or use as a dipping sauce too to help compliment them, thanks for sharing :)
Hello,
These are quite delicious. It's nice the recipe includes so many vegetables and they're easy to make. To add flavour like you mentioned, you can try the broth from this curried soup recipe to drizzle over them:
https://www.nationalnutrition.ca/articles/healthy-recipes/easy-curried-lentil-soup/
Have a healthy day!
I have been making curry for breakfast a lot: hey, don't knock it until you try it! Typically, I do just red lentil curry or red lentil curry pasta. So, while I am enjoying it...well, the lack of variety has me feeling it is a bit of a rut. So, this recipe was a nice save for me. Potatoes are very filling (one of the highest if not the highest on the famous satiety scale) and rich in carbohydrate which is good fuel for the beginning of the day. This recipe is also great for me because I have a few bags of green lentils which I just have lying around that I haven't figured out anything to do with (since I got them when buying red lentils since they were on sale although I prefer the red ones haha)