Easy to make from scratch beef koftas in a creamy coconut curry sauce served with potato and spinach sag aloo, rather than the usual rice, make the perfect week night dinner, ready and on the table in 45 minutes. Fakeaway at its best! Naturally gluten and dairy free.
Ingredients box services like HelloFresh offer great convenience and versatility. We love them as you still get to enjoy cooking of an evening, but there is no hassle. You choose your meal and everything you need is delivered all portioned and ready for you to cook. They’re also really useful at home when friends are round, or to place an order for delivery to a rented cottage on holiday.
But there’s more to HelloFresh than the food boxes as they have a huge database of their meal box recipes on website, all with their trademark step by step instructions so you can make your favourites again and again. The recipes have been refined over the years in reponse to customer feedback so you can feel confident that they will work.
Divided into seven categories: quick meals, low calorie meals, vegetarian recipes, world cuisines, most popular recipes, most recent recipes, and easy to cook, it’s straightforward to choose. The content is perfectly optimised for mobile so you don’t have to either print the recipe or blaance their laptop or tablet on the kitchen worktop.
I really like the way that a drop down menu lets me select the number of people I’m cooking for, and the recipe will automatically be scaled to that number making your shopping easy.
We tried their beef koftas with sag aloo are easy to make, delicious, and a huge improvement in terms of both taste and saving money from having food delivered.
How do you make beef koftas with sag aloo?
First, chop and fry the onion until soft. Add garlic and cook for a minute. Set aside half of this mixture.
Add the spices to the pan; stir while cooking for a minute. Add chopped potato and water, and stir in half the concentrated chicken stock. Cover and leave simmering for 15-20 minutes, until the potato is cooked.
While the potatoes are cooking, season the mince and add chopped coriander. Mix together will and form into balls about 2cm across. Fry in a hot frying pan, turning frequently.
Take the koftas out of the frying pan and replace with the fried onion previously reserved. Add the tandoori paste and cook briefly, before adding coconut milk and chicken stock pot. Simmer for 5 minutes, then add back the koftas, and cook for a further 3-4 minutes.
Reduce the sauce in the sag aloo. Add spinach and remove the pan from the heat and cover with a lid. Leave for 5 minutes, then stir all together.
Before serving, stir lime juice into the koftas. Serve with a garnish of chopped coriander.
How did we get on?
Firstly our dish looked pretty similar to the HelloFresh version. Our meatballs are not as perfectly round as theirs and the sauce is a slightly different colour (most likely due to a different brand of the curry paste). It took Ed 50 minutes from start to finish rather than the suggested 45, aside from bread making, he isn’t a natural or especially fast cook so that was fair enough.
Instructions were easy to follow and the dish worked perfectly and was delicious, with the portion size being spot on. I’d have preferred just a little more seasoning, but I like strongly flavoured foods. Definitely one to repeat!
Easy to make from scratch beef koftas in a creamy coconut curry sauce served with potato and spinach sag aloo, rather than the usual rice, make the perfect week night dinner, ready and on the table in 45 minutes. Naturally gluten free.
- 1 Red Onion
- 1 Garlic Clove
- 1 King Edward Potato
- ½ bunch Coriander
- ½ tsp Cumin
- ½ tsp Turmeric
- ½ tsp Mustard Seeds
- 1 Chicken Stock Pot
- 250 grams Beef Mince
- 1.5 tsp Tandoori Paste
- 200 ml Coconut Milk
- 1 Baby Spinach
- ½ Lime
- 150 ml Water
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Halve, peel and chop the red onion into roughly 2cm pieces. Peel and grate the garlic (or use a garlic press). Chop the potato (no need to peel!) into 2cm cubes. Roughly chop the coriander (stalks and all). Put a splash of oil in a large saucepan on medium heat. Add the onion and cook until soft, 5 mins. Add the garlic, stir and cook for 1 minute more. Then take out half of this mixture and set aside in a bowl or on a plate.
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Add the ground cumin, turmeric and mustard seeds to the remaining onion in the pan and stir continuously for 1 minute. Add the potato and water (amount specified in the ingredient list) and half the chicken stock pot. Stir to dissolve the stock pot. Cover with a lid, turn the heat to low and simmer until the potato is just cooked, 15-20 mins. TIP: The potato is cooked when you can easily slip a knife through.
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Meanwhile, put the beef mince in a mixing bowl with a pinch of salt, a good grind of black pepper and half the coriander. Mix it all together. TIP: The best way of doing this is by using your hands! Shape the beef mixture into four little balls per person. Heat a splash of oil in a frying pan and fry, stirring occasionally, until browned all over and cooked through, 10-12 mins.
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Take the koftas out of the pan and set aside. Add the reserved onion mixture to the same pan (no need to wash it) along with the tandoori paste. Stir together and cook on medium-low heat for 1 minute before adding the coconut milk. Mix in the remaining chicken stock pot and simmer for 5 mins. Add the koftas back in and gently simmer again to reduce the sauce slightly, another 3-4 mins.
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When the potato is cooked, take the lid off and allow the mixture to bubble away for a few minutes more, until the liquid has almost gone, stirring frequently to make sure it doesn't burn. Add the baby spinach, then take the pan off the heat, put the lid on and leave to the side for 5 mins. Stir through the spinach. This is your sag aloo!
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When the kofta curry has reduced slightly, squeeze over a little lime juice and stir it through. Serve the beef kofta curry sprinkled with the remaining coriander and the sag aloo on the side. Enjoy!
- This recipe is 24 Weight Watchers Smart Points for the entire dish
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Recipe for beef koftas with sag aloo provided and sponsored by HelloFresh. All images aside from our version of the finished dish courtesy of HelloFresh
Amanda
A mouthwatering meal, it looks amazing. I’d be more than happy with this for my supper any day of the week.
Helen
It is a very tasty meal, worth waiting for.
Kristy D
I think Hello Fresh are brilliant. It is so good to have decent and easy to make recipes, and the portion control is ideal for people like me that always make too much! This looks like a really tasty dish.
Helen
All too easy to make too much food, portion control can be so difficult.
Grace L
I really like the ideal of dipping in to recipes and finding something suitable, as well as tailoring it to your needs. This meatball sag aloo looks yummy.
Helen
A very handy and useful database of recipes.
Diana Black
A very tasty dish, and relatively easy to make. I’d probably do this kind of thing on a Saturday night when I have the time. Good alternative to getting takeaway.
Helen
We do like making a good fakeaway, so much cheaper.
Bryan B
This sounds like a good way of having access to some handy meals. Sometimes you just don’t know what to make, and any inspiration is appreciated. I’ve found Hello Fresh to be really popular with many friends. I think Ed did a sterling job. Looks good enough to eat!
Helen
It was very tasty and Ed did do very well.
Lisa | Garlic & Zest
I’ve never used those box delivery services for dinner recipes — but these koftas look so good, it makes me want to try. So does it come with just everything portioned out — like 1.5 teaspoons of tandoori paste — or do you have to measure?
Helen
Everything is measured so you don’y end up with half a jar or tub of anything. I love them as everything comes in a box and all you need to do is cook – no hunting for ingredients.
Shadi Hasanzadenemati
Super tasty! I can have this every day! I love the ideal of being able to make your favourite meal box meal again and again.
Helen
There are some really delicious meal ideas.
Claudia Lamascolo
seriously a mouth watering recipe and I love that step by step photos that come with the Hello Fresh meals. I just want to dive right into the dish and devour these!
Helen
They are really easy to follow recipes, with everything ready to go.
nicole triebe
I love anything curry! This sounds like a perfect weeknight meal!
Helen
Curry is always such a good choice, very tasty.
Chrissy
This looks incredible! We’re trying to mix in meals from different types of cuisines to our meal plan, so I’m definitely adding this to my list.
Helen
It’s an easy to make flavoursome dish, very nice.
Traci
Omgosh I am sooo adding this to my “make that” list! I have most of the ingredients. Never worked with Tandoori paste…can’t wait to try that out. Just pinned this beauty and YUMMM! Oh and I lovvve the dials on your range top!
Helen
Tandoori paste a really handy ready made spice mix.