Wet cofta balls

2 lbs potatoes
200 grams (7 ozs.) besan flour
1 T. salt
1 T. sugar
1 T. fennel seeds
1 pinch baking soda
frying ghee or oil

Grate the potatoes and mix with dry ingredients, then make into desired-size balls and fry them as per previous cofta balls, leaving them in an uncovered container. Now make the sauce by following the directions below.

2 lbs red ripened tomatoes
200 grams (7 ozs.) milk (or water)
1 t mustard seed
1 t. chile powder
1 T. salt
1 T. brown sugar
1 t. turmeric
l pinch hing
3 T. ghee

Cut and blend the tomatoes together with milk or water. Place a pot on high heat and add ghee. When ghee is hot, add the mustard seed then add all the dry ingredients. Immediately add the tomato sauce mixed with milk (or water), and let it boil for about 25 minutes.

While tomato sauce is boiling, rinse the cofta balls with tap water and softly squeeze them and place them in a pot. Remove the boiling tomato sauce from the fire and pour it over the soaked cofta balls. This is called wet cofta balls, and it is ready to offer to the Lord. Wet cofta balls can also be made out of cauliflower or sweet potatoes.