Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, malai kofta. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Malai kofta is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Malai kofta is something that I’ve loved my entire 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 have to first prepare a few components. You can cook malai kofta using 23 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Malai kofta:
- Take 250 gm Paneer/Cottage cheese (grated)
- Make ready 2 Potatoes (grated)
- Make ready 2-3 tablespoon All purpose flour
- Get To taste Salt
- Get 3-4 Tomatoes (medium size and chopped)
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 teaspoon Red chilli powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon Coriander powder
- Take 1 teaspoon Garam masala powder
- Take 1 teaspoon Dry fenugreek leaves
- Take 1/2 teaspoon Cumin seeds
- Get 1 teaspoon Sabji masala
- Make ready 2 Green cardamom
- Get 1-2 teaspoon Sugar/ Honey
- Get 3-4 tablespoon Cream
- Make ready 2 Bay leaves
- Get 4-5 Cloves
- Get 1 Cinnamon stick
- Prepare 10-12 Almonds (4-5 finely chopped)
- Take 8-10 Cashew nuts (2-3 finely chopped)
- Make ready 5-6 Pistachios (finely chopped)
- Make ready 15-20 Raisins
- Take 1 cup Oil
Malai stands for cream and Kofta is a fried dumpling of mashed potatoes, paneer (Indian. 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! Vegan malai kofta is a delicious Indian dish.
Steps to make Malai kofta:
- In a bowl, combine grated paneer and potatoes, 1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder, 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder, 1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder, 1/2 teaspoon sabji masala, salt and mix it well.
- Now add all purpose flour into it and mix it and form a dough.
- Now cut small balls from it and then flatten those balls and into it stuff chopped, almonds, pistachios and cashew nuts and raisins and make balls of it and deep fry them.
- In a grinder, add tomatoes, almonds and cashew nuts and grind it into fine paste.
- Now heat 1-2 tablespoon oil in a pan, into it and cumin seeds, bay leaves, green cardamom and cloves and allow it to crackle.
- Now add tomato paste, salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander powder, sabji masala, garam masala powder, dry fenugreek leaves and honey in it and saute it for 10-15 minutes in low flame.
- Now add cream in it and cook it for another 2 minutes or till it start leaving sides of the pan.
- Now add water as per your need and cook it for 8-10 minutes.
- Then add fry balls in it and cook it for 2-3 minutes and switch of the flame.
- Your malai kofta is ready to serve.
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. 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. this recipe post of malai kofta recipe, i have used the aloo anyway, before wrapping up the recipe, i would like to include some tips, suggestions and variation to malai kofta recipe. firstly, i would heavily. Malai kofta is a delicious and rich main dish.
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