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Malai kofta is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Malai kofta is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
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.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have malai kofta using 23 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Malai kofta:
- Get 2 cups grated lauki
- Make ready 5 tablespoon gram flour
- Get 2 tablespoon rice flour
- Take 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 green chilli finely chopped
- Prepare 1/2 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
- Take 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
- Get As needed Oil for deep frying
- Take to taste Salt
- Get for gravy
- Take 2 medium tomatoes
- Make ready 2 tablespoons cashew nuts soaked in water for 20 minutes
- Take 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Prepare 1/2 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
- Get 2 medium onions, finely chopped
- Get 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- Get 1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder
- Take 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Take 1/4 cup thick curd
- Get 3/4 cup water
- Make ready 2 tablespoon oil
- Prepare to taste Salt
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:
- Peel and grate lauki. Squeeze out the water completely and keep that water for making gravy.
- Take squeezed grated lauki in a large bowl.add gram flour, rice flour, turmeric powder, ginger garlic paste, finely chopped green chilli, finely chopped onion and salt.
- Mix all ingredients well. Mixture should have a thick consistency to make round shaped balls. If it is watery then add 1-2 teaspoon gram flour and mix. Do not keep this mixture idle for long time since lauki releases water over time and it will make mixture soggy and you will not be able to make kofta balls.
- Meanwhile heat the oil in kadai for deep frying,grease your hand with some oil. Take small portion and make round balls.
- By the time, oil should be hot enough to fry. Drop the kofta carefully into hot oil and fry it till they are golden brown from all the sides. Keep moving the koftas.
- Once kofta are brown from all the sides remove them on paper towel lined plate.
- Take all ingredients for paste (onion,tomato,ginger, garlic, green chilli) in grinder.
- Grind into a smooth paste.
- Heat the oil in a pan on medium heat. Once hot add whole spices. Fry it, till you get nice aroma of the spices.
- Then add prepared ground paste.
- Cook it till all the moisture evaporates and oil start to leave from the sides.do stir in between.
- Add turmeric powder,red chilli powder, cumin powder, coriander powder and salt.
- Mix it well and cook for a minute.
- Then add lauki water to make the gravy consistency.
- Lower the heat and then add whisked yogurt.
- Add immediately stir it well till everything is mixed.
- Add garam masala and kasoori methi. Mix it well.
- Add kofta, stir gently and serve.
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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