Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, malai kofta. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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 popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Malai kofta is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have malai kofta using 25 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Malai kofta:

1. Get 1 cup cottage cheese/paneer
2. Prepare 1 medium boiled potato
3. Take 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
4. Get 1 medium sized onion
5. Take 2 large tomatoes
6. Get 8 cashew nuts
7. Prepare 1 tablespoon Ginger-garlic powder
8. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon grated ginger
9. Make ready 1 tablespoon chopped corriandar leaves
10. Take 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
11. Take 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
12. Prepare 1 teaspoon corriandar powder
13. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
14. Get 2-4 green cardamoms
15. Make ready 2-3 cloves
16. Make ready 1 black cardamom
17. Take 7-8 peppercorns
18. Take 1 bay leaf
19. Take 1/2 teaspoon sahi garam masala
20. Take 1 teaspoon kasoori methi
21. Take 2 cups oil
22. Prepare 2 tablespoon heavy cream/ful fat milk
23. Get 2 teaspoon salt
24. Take 2 teaspoon sugar
25. Get 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:

1. 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.
2. Then heat oil in a pan & deep fry the kofta balls until golden brown & keep aside.
3. Now In a saucepan add some water and into the water add diced whole onion, tomatoes & cashews & boil until the onion becomes translucent.
4. Cool down the mixture a bit & make a smooth paste out of it.
5. 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.
6. 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
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Finally add sahi garam masala & crushed kasuri methi to it & turn off the flame.
10. 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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