Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, paneer malai kofta (cheese balls in spicy creamy gravy). One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Malai Kofta Recipe / Paneer and aloo Kofta. Malai means cream and Kofta are fried dumpling balls. Usually they are made up of mashed Shape them into medium sized balls.
Paneer Malai Kofta (cheese balls in spicy creamy gravy) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Paneer Malai Kofta (cheese balls in spicy creamy gravy) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook paneer malai kofta (cheese balls in spicy creamy gravy) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Paneer Malai Kofta (cheese balls in spicy creamy gravy):
- Take 1/2 Pound paneer (Indian cheese)
- Make ready 1/2 Cup Cashewnuts
- Get 1 onions (big)
- Prepare 2 Tomatoes (roma)
- Make ready 1 Tablespoon garlic paste
- Prepare 1 Tablespoon ginger paste
- Take 1 Tablespoon chilli powder
- Take 1 Tablespoon Garam Masala Powder
- Make ready 1 Cup milk
- Get green chilli
- Get cilantro
- Prepare , 1 cloves Cardamom Cinnamon ,
I could certainly trade my kitchen for a bowl of malai kofta! Paneer combined with potatoes to make koftas. The koftas are served in a rich tomato onion based gravy. Hope you all remember about my attempt to make Malai Kofta sometime back and how it ended up with cheese balls.
Instructions to make Paneer Malai Kofta (cheese balls in spicy creamy gravy):
- Grate Paneer (cheese). Mix finely chopped green chili, cilantro, salt and black pepper to taste. Mix them well and knead them into 1 inch diameter balls (or any shape you want). Soak cashew nuts in milk for 15 min and make a paste of it.
- Put some vegetable oil in a sauce pan and shallow fry the balls until golden. Set aside.
- In the same pan with some oil, put Cardamom, cloves, Cinnamon and fry for 30 sec in medium flame until aromatic. Put finely chopped onions and fry until golden brown. Add ginger paste, garlic paste and fry until the raw smell of ginger and garlic is gone.
- Add finely chopped (or pureed) tomato. cover and cook until the tomatoes are soft and mushy.
- Add all the spice powders along with salt and black pepper to taste. Fry for 2-3 min and add the cashew nut paste. Cook for 2 more min.
- Add little water if the gravy is too dry. add in the paneer (cheese) balls.Cook for 5 more mins and garnish with chopped cilantro. Serve hot with rice, bread or pulav.
Repeat with remaining potato balls and filling. Roll each kofta in flour, dip in the beaten egg, then roll in the breadcrumbs. For the gravy, blend together the onions, garlic, ginger, poppy seeds and nuts in a food processor to a purée. Malai Kofta gets a healthier makeover however they have the same delicious melt in mouth flavour in creamy gravy. I have posted recipes of Shahi Paneer, Palak Paneer, Butter Chicken and Pindi Cholley and they all come out better Luckily few were left to be dunked in the creamy spicy gravy.
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