Nazaqat e Sooran

Description
Nazaqat-e-sooran. This delicate dish can be served with tomato ketchup but best with sesame seed chutney.


 * from: monty 10:24, 17 March 2007 (MST)
 * Please mail the comments regarding the recipe at dagguisme@gmail.com

Ingredients

 * 1 kg yam (sooran)
 * 100 g onion paste
 * 50 g pistachios
 * salt and pepper to taste
 * 1 tsp ginger paste
 * 2 g asafoetida
 * butter to shallow fry
 * ½ tsp cardamom powder
 * ¼ tsp mace powder
 * 100 g mashed cottage cheese (paneer)
 * 1 tsp roasted cumin
 * 1 tsp coriander

Directions

 * 1) Boil yam till cooked.
 * 2) Peel and mash.
 * 3) Add all the ingredients except butter & pistachios to mashed yam.
 * 4) Form the mixture in to balls.
 * 5) Stuff with pistachios and flatten.
 * 6) Shallow fry on girdle and serve hot.