Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, malai kofta. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Malai means cream and kofta are fried balls. So malai kofta literally translates to koftas dunked in a creamy sauce. It is a popular Indian vegetarian dish in which potato paneer balls are served with a.
Malai kofta is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Malai kofta is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook malai kofta using 25 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Malai kofta:
Prepare 1 cup cottage cheese/paneer
Take 1 medium boiled potato
Take 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
Take 1 medium sized onion
Make ready 2 large tomatoes
Prepare 8 cashew nuts
Prepare 1 tablespoon Ginger-garlic powder
Prepare 1/2 teaspoon grated ginger
Make ready 1 tablespoon chopped corriandar leaves
Prepare 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
Prepare 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
Get 1 teaspoon corriandar powder
Take 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
Prepare 2-4 green cardamoms
Prepare 2-3 cloves
Prepare 1 black cardamom
Make ready 7-8 peppercorns
Make ready 1 bay leaf
Get 1/2 teaspoon sahi garam masala
Make ready 1 teaspoon kasoori methi
Take 2 cups oil
Get 2 tablespoon heavy cream/ful fat milk
Get 2 teaspoon salt
Prepare 2 teaspoon sugar
Prepare 2 green chillies
Serve them with Naan bread or homemade flatbread! 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. Malai Kofta is a super popular Punjabi curry.
Steps to make Malai kofta:
1st mix cottage cheese,boiled mashed potatoes, coriander leaves,all purpose flour,salt,garam masala powder, 2 tablespoon powdered milk & finely grated ginger together & make medium sized balls out of it.
Then heat oil in a pan & deep fry the kofta balls until golden brown & keep aside.
Now In a saucepan add some water and into the water add diced whole onion, tomatoes & cashews & boil until the onion becomes translucent.
Cool down the mixture a bit & make a smooth paste out of it.
Now in another pan heat up some oil & add whole spices (bay leaf, green cardamoms,black cardamom & clove, peppercorns) & wait untill the aroma comes out from the spices then add 2 green chillies.
Now in that oil add a water mixture of Ginger-garlic paste + cumin powder+ coriander powder + red chilli powder + turmeric powder.Then stir & mix well the spice mixture until the oil separates from it
Once the spice mixture is done add the tomato-onion paste & incorporate everything together. Then add the salt & sugar & cover the pan & simmer for 10 minutes.
After that if the gravy is too thick add some lukewarm water to it then add heavy cream or full fat milk & simmer for 5 more minutes.
Finally add sahi garam masala & crushed kasuri methi to it & turn off the flame.
Arrange fried Koftas in a serving platter & pour the gravy slowly onto the Koftas. Garnish it with chopped coriander leaves & serve hot with rice or rotis.
Make sure the paneer is fresh and. 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 classic North Indian dish originated from the Mughlai cuisine. Malai refers to the cream and koftas are deep fried paneer and vegetable dumplings in rich and creamy tomato gravy.
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