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Malai kofta recipe - Make the best restaurant style malai paneer kofta in delicious and creamy gravy. So malai kofta literally translates to koftas dunked in a creamy sauce. Deep fried balls (koftas) made with potato and paneer are dunked in a creamy spiced velvety smooth curry.
Malai kofta is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Malai kofta is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have malai kofta using 35 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Malai kofta:
- Take for Gravy ingredients-
- Take 1 tbsp oil
- Make ready 1 bay leaf
- Make ready 1 inch cinnamon stick
- Get 4 whole green cardamoms ,slightly crushed
- Make ready 3 cloves
- Prepare 1 tsp shahi jeera seeds
- Get 6.7 garlic,cloves roughly chopped
- Take 1 inch Ginger roughly chopped
- Make ready few Green chilli chopped
- Make ready 1 large onion chopped
- Take 2 large tomatoes, chopped
- Take 12 cashews whole & raw
- Make ready 2 cups water
- Get 2 tsp oil
- Get 1 tsp kashmiri red chilli powder
- Take 1/2 tsp salt or taste
- Get 1 tsp sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp garam masala or more taste
- Make ready 2 tsp crushed kasuri methi dried & fenegreek leaves
- Prepare 3 tbsp heavy cream
- Prepare Pinch cardamon powder
- Take as required coriander leaves to garnish
- Get For Kofta ingredients:-
- Take 1 cup mashed boiled potatoes
- Prepare 1 cup grated paneer
- Take 1 tbsp finely chopped ginger
- Prepare 1 green chilli chopped
- Prepare 1 tbsp chopped chashew
- Get 1 tbsp chopped golden raisians
- Make ready 1.5 tbsp cornstarch
- Prepare as per taste Salt
- Make ready 1/4 tsp white pepper powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp tspb cardamon powder
- Make ready as required Oil for frying
Malai Kofta - deep-fried paneer and potato balls, dunked in a creamy-smooth onion tomato based gravy! Once you taste this curry you will make it again. Malai Kofta is a very popular North Indian dish & undoubtedly tops the list of foods ordered at Indian restaurants. Malai stands for cream and Kofta is a fried dumpling of mashed potatoes, paneer (Indian.
Instructions to make Malai kofta:
- Make kofta:-Boil the potatoes using a pressure cooker,8-9 whistles on a stove to pressure cooker.you can do this on the side while making the gravy. once the potatoes are boiled let them cool a bit then peel and mash them.
- To a large bowl, now add all ingredients for kofta.boiled and mashed potatoes, grated paneer, finely chopped ginger, green chilli, cashew, raisins, cornstarch, salt, white pepper powder,& cardamom powder.
- Mix everything together with your hands to form a dough. start making koftas from the dough.take some part of the dough and roll between your palms to make it round.
- Similarly, make all the koftas 1 made 9 koftas each around 40 to 42 gmS.
- Make the gravy:-heat a pan on medium heat.once hot,add oil and then add the bay leaf,cinnamon,green cardamom,cloves and shahi jeera.
- Let the spices sizzle for few seconds and then add the chopped garlic,ginger,green chilli and onion. saute for around 2 min.do not brown the onion.
- Then add the tomatoes along with cashews and 2 cups of water and stir.
- Cover the pot with a lid and cook for around 10 to 12 minS untill tomato softens.
- Let ut cool down a bit (around 15 min if you blend it while it's hot it might blow off from the blender) then discard the bay leaf and transfer mixture to a blender.
- Blend to a smooth paste.use a strainer and strain the puree into another bowl.this makes sure the gravy is really smooth.
- Put the same pan on medium heat. again once hot and 2 tbsp unsalted butter & oil let the butter melt.
- Add in the pureed gravy and cook for 2 min. Then add the coriander powder, Kashmiri red chilli powder, salt, sugar & garam masala. let the curry cook 2.3 min.
- Add crushed Kasuri methi and then cream, cook for an additional 2 to 3 min on medium-low heat. Sprinkle cardamom powder and coriander & garnish with onion rings.
Malai kofta is a delicious and rich main dish. Paneer dumplings with rich cream gravy. One of the popular paneer dishes for any special occasion. Malai Kofta is a popular Indian vegetarian side dish made with kofta balls dunked in creamy tomato based gravy. Serve them with Naan bread or homemade flatbread!
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