Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, malai kofta. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Malai kofta is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Malai kofta is something that I’ve 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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook malai kofta using 21 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Malai kofta:

1. Take 200 gms paneer
2. Take 2 large potatoes boiled
3. Get 2 medium onions chopped
4. Prepare 2 medium tomatoes chopped
5. Prepare 12 pieces cashew
6. Make ready 1 tsp ginger paste
7. Make ready 1 tsp garlic paste
8. Take 1 bay leaf
9. Prepare 1 tsp cumin seed
10. Make ready 4-5 black pepper
11. Make ready 3 green cardamoms
12. Take 3 cloves
13. Make ready 1 cinnamon sticks
14. Make ready 7-8 raisins
15. Prepare 1 tsp sugar
16. Prepare 1 tsp coriander powder
17. Take 1 tsp garam masala powder
18. Prepare 1 tsp kasuri methi
19. Get as required Coriander leaves
20. Take 2 green chillies
21. Prepare as required Oil and salt

Malai stands for cream and Kofta is a fried dumpling of mashed potatoes, paneer (Indian. 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 is a popular Indian vegetarian side dish made with kofta balls dunked in creamy tomato based gravy.

Steps to make Malai kofta:

1. In a pan take 3 tbsp of oil. Heat it. Add 8 cashew nuts. Fry, it then takes it out of the pan.
2. Now add all the whole spices. Cook for a minute add chopped onion fry until light brown. Add ginger-garlic paste. After that add chopped tomatoes. Add salt. When tomatoes are soft add coriander powder, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, sugar in it. Cook well.
3. Then cool the mixture and grind it to a smooth paste with water.
4. To make koftas, in a bowl take paneer and boiled potatoes chopped green chillies coriander leaves two tbsp of maida. Mash well.
5. Take a small portion of mixture. Fill the centre with chopped cashew and raisins. Make a round shape then roll it in dry maida.
6. Take a karahi add oil heat it over a medium flame. Fry all the koftas untill golden brown in colour.
7. Now in a pan add some butter and oil. Heat it. Add onion mixture in it. Add water. Then add garam masala powder, kasuri methi, coriander leaves. Cook the grevy for five minutes.
8. In a serving plate place the koftas and pour the curry over koftas. Garnish with coriander leaves and drizzle cream over it.
9. Serve it with jeera rice.

Serve them with Naan bread or homemade flatbread! 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 - deep-fried paneer and potato balls, dunked in a creamy-smooth onion tomato based gravy!

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