Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, malai kofta. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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 one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Malai Kofta is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have malai kofta using 25 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Malai Kofta:

1. Get 250 gm Paneer (grated)
2. Take 2 Potato (boiled & grated)
3. Take 3 Tomato (medium size and diced)
4. Make ready 2 Onion (medium size and sliced)
5. Get 2 Green Chilli
6. Take 2 teaspoon Ginger-garlic paste
7. Prepare 10-12 Cashew nuts
8. Prepare 10-12 Almonds
9. Prepare 7-8 Raisins
10. Get 8-10 Pistachios
11. Take 3 tablespoon Cream
12. Prepare 2-3 tablespoon All purpose flour
13. Take 1 teaspoon Garam masala powder
14. Prepare To taste Salt
15. Get 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder
16. Prepare 1 teaspoon Red chilli powder
17. Get 1 teaspoon Coriander powder
18. Get 1/2 teaspoon Cumin powder
19. Prepare 2 teaspoon Kasuri Methi
20. Make ready 1 Bay leaf
21. Take 1 Cinnamon stick
22. Prepare 2 Elaichi
23. Make ready 4-5 Cloves
24. Get 4-5 Pepper corn
25. Get as needed Oil

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. Take a bowl, add grated paneer (take out little bit from it for garnishing), granted potato, salt, garam masala powder and maida into it and mix it well make a dough of it.
2. Cut small peices out of it and and and flaten it with your palm and stuff it with some finely chopped almonds, cashew nuts, pistachios and raisins and make ball of it.
3. Meanwhile, heat some oil in a pan and drop stuffed balls into it, one-by-one and deep fry it and try to fry it with spoon rather than with some spatula. (Don't fry a lot of balls in one batch, try tofry 4-5 balls at once.)
4. Put another pan on the flame and put some oil into it and fry some almonds and cashew nuts in it.
5. Then add onion into it and saute it well and add green chillies, ginger-garlic paste and tomato into it and let it cook till tomato get mushy.
6. Switch off the flame and allow it to cool for some time and grind in into fine paste without using water.
7. Again put a pan on the flame,add some oil and heat it. Then add pepper corn, elaichi, cinnamon stick and bay leaf into it and fry it well.
8. Into that oil add some turmeric powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder, cumin powder into it and let it cook and then quickly add the grinder mixture into it and allow it cook for some time till it leaves the sides of the pan.
9. Then add water as per your requirement and add salt, kasuri methi into it and let it boil properly.
10. Then add some fresh cream and garam masala powder into it and mix it well
11. Then drop fried balls into it and cook it for some 4-5 minutes.
12. Switch off the flame. Serve it in some dish and garnish it with some grated paneer, chopped almonds, cashew nuts, pistachios and raisins.

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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