Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, malai kofta. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Malai kofta is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, 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 nice and they look wonderful.
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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have malai kofta using 25 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Malai kofta:
- Prepare 1 cup cottage cheese/paneer
- Get 1 medium boiled potato
- Make ready 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
- Prepare 1 medium sized onion
- Take 2 large tomatoes
- Make ready 8 cashew nuts
- Get 1 tablespoon Ginger-garlic powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon grated ginger
- Get 1 tablespoon chopped corriandar leaves
- Get 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon corriandar powder
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
- Make ready 2-4 green cardamoms
- Prepare 2-3 cloves
- Take 1 black cardamom
- Make ready 7-8 peppercorns
- Make ready 1 bay leaf
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon sahi garam masala
- Prepare 1 teaspoon kasoori methi
- Get 2 cups oil
- Prepare 2 tablespoon heavy cream/ful fat milk
- Prepare 2 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 2 teaspoon sugar
- Get 2 green chillies
Malai = Heavy cream Kofta = meatballs. Traditionally kofta curry is made from meat. But here I am sharing vegetarian malai kofta curry. So, here koftas are made from grated paneer (cottage cheese).
Steps to make Malai kofta:
- 1st mix cottage cheese,boiled mashed potatoes, coriander leaves,all purpose flour,salt,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 & turned 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.
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