Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, malai kofta. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Malai Kofta is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Malai Kofta is something which I have loved my whole life.
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 a popular Indian vegetarian side dish made with kofta balls dunked in creamy tomato based gravy.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have malai kofta using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Malai Kofta:
- Make ready curry
- Take 3 big onions, chopped
- Prepare 100 grams cashews
- Take 1 tsp powdered Indian spices
- Get 200 ml milk cream
- Prepare vegetable oil
- Get corriander powder
- Take 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Make ready white pepper powder
- Get kofta
- Take 4 potatoes boiled
- Make ready 20 grams cashews
- Take 20 grams almonds
- Get 1 grated carrot
- Get 100 grams grated paneer or tofu
- Prepare 1 tbsp ghee
- Get 200 grams all purpose flour
- Prepare 1 water
- Make ready 1 oil to fry kofta
Malai kofta is a delicious and rich main dish. Paneer dumplings with rich cream gravy. One of the popular paneer dishes for any special occasion. Malai kofta is a popular as well as most sought after vegetarian Indian dish in restaurants.
Steps to make Malai Kofta:
- For the gravy : heat oil in pan . Saute onions till it changes transparent . Add cashews to it and saute till cashews turn light brown .
- Let the onion cashew mixture cool . Blend it to a smooth mixture . Set it aside
- For the kofta : Boil the potatoes . After they cool down, add the grated carrot , tofu or paneer , salt to taste , white pepper powder and mash it well .
- In a separate pan , heat the ghee and saute the broken cashews and almonds till they turn golden brown .
- Now make the mashed potato tofu mix into smooth small round balls and keep the dry fruit stuff inside it . Make similar balls .
- Take the all purpose flour and mix into a batter . Dip the potato balls into the flour batter . Batter should not be very thick . Take about 400 to 500 ml of oil in a pan . Now heat oil in the pan and fry these balls until golden brown on medium flame . Set aside .
- Heat 1 teaspoon of oil in a pan . Put a few cumin seeds and after they pop , add the onion cashew blend and stir slowly on low flame . Add the spices , sugar , salt , chilli powder and pepper , stir slowly . It is better to add minimum spice as the speciality of this curry is its subtle non-spicy flavour . After the raw smell of onion is gone , add 100 ml of cream in the pan and stir .
- When you are about to switch off the pan , add the kofta balls into the curry . Set it for about 5 min inside the curry on low flame . Switch off the heat and set the dish aside .
- Serve your malai kofta with chapathi or paratha or even pulao . It is going to taste yum ! Serve hot with corriander garnish .
One of the popular paneer dishes for any special occasion. Malai kofta is a popular as well as most sought after vegetarian Indian dish in restaurants. In this delicious restaurant style malai kofta recipe, the kofta are made with paneer and potatoes. I have had malai kofta only once in my life time. And finally once got it too and thought I should post malai kofta in this.
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