Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy
Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, malai kofta with spinach gravy. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Malai kofta recipe - Make the best restaurant style malai paneer kofta in delicious and creamy Malai means cream and kofta are fried balls. So malai kofta literally translates to koftas dunked in a How is malai kofta made? Malai kofta recipe - This restaurant style malai kofta recipe is very easy to make at home.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook malai kofta with spinach gravy using 24 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy:
  1. Make ready 200 grams Paneer (cheese) -
  2. Take 100 grams Mawa -
  3. Take 2-3 Potatoes -(boiled)
  4. Make ready 7-8 Cashew nuts
  5. Prepare 1 inch Ginger long piece(grated)
  6. Get - 15 to 16 Raisins
  7. Get as needed Oil -to fry Koftas
  8. Take For Spinach Gravy:
  9. Get 1 bunch (500 grams) Palak(spinach)
  10. Take 1/2 tsp Sugar
  11. Take 3 to 4 Tomatoes - (medium sized)
  12. Make ready 2 to 3 Green chilli
  13. Take 1 pinch Heeng(asafoetida)
  14. Get 1 inch Ginger
  15. Make ready 2 tbsp Oil
  16. Take 1/2 tsp Jeera(cumin seeds) if you want
  17. Prepare 2 tsp (if you want) Kasuri Methi
  18. Prepare 2 tsp Gram flour
  19. Make ready 2 tbsp Cream/malai - (if you want)
  20. Take add to taste (1 tsp) Salt
  21. Take 1/4 tsp Garam masala
  22. Make ready 2 tsp (if you prefer more of sour) Lemon juice
  23. Get add to taste Salt -(1/2 tsp) -
  24. Make ready 2 tbsp Corn flour/arrowroot -

Usually they are made up of mashed potatoes, mix vegetables or paneer. In this delicious restaurant style malai kofta recipe. Malai or creamy kofta is the classical mughlai recipe from India. Malai or creamy kofta is the classical mughlai dish originated from North India in Mughals era.

Steps to make Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy:
  1. Malai Kofta - - Boil the potatoes and peel them. Cut off the stem from the raisins, wash and cut the cashew nuts(1 nut into 5-6 pieces). Take Mawa and Paneer in any utensil, put in the boiled potatoes after breking them to pieces. Add salt and corn flour then mash well. Mash till the mix looks like a smooth dough. Put in grated ginger or ginger paste and mix. The mixture needed to make Kofta is ready.
  2. Pour oil in a non stick pan(kadhai). Take some amount of the Kofta mix at a time and flatten a bit with your hand. Place 2-3 pieces of cashew nut and 1 raisin on it, wrap up the piece from all sides and round it into a ball. Similarly make balls with the remaining mixture, you will get at least 15-16 balls. Put these balls in hot oil, you can put 3-4 Koftas at one time. Move the Koftas very carefully when turning sides and fry on a medium flame till they turn brown.
  3. Keep the fried Koftas on a plate and fry the other Koftas. Repeat this process with the remaining balls. Koftas are ready, let us prepare the gravy.
  4. Palak/Spinach Gravy - - Break off the stems from the Palak, wash the leaves twice with clean water and keep in a utensil. Put 1/4 cup water and sugar in the utensil, cover and place it on the gas to boil. Palak will be boiled in 5-6 minutes. Turn off the gas.
  5. Wash tomatoes, chop into pieces. Cut off the stems of the green chilies, then wash them. Peel, wash ginger and make 3-4 pieces of it. Put all of these in the mixer and make a fine paste.
  6. Pour oil in a frying pan(kadhai), put Heeng and Jeera in hot oil. After Jeera is roasted add Kasuri Methi(stems removed) and gram flour, fry the two. Now put tomatoes, ginger, green chilli paste and stir fry the spices for 2-3 minutes. Pour the cream or malai and fry a little more, fry till oil floats over these spices.
  7. Once the boiled Palak is cooled, put it in the mixer to make a fine paste. Mix Palak paste with the fried spices. Add water and salt according to how thick or thi you want the Tari. After it comes to boil put Garam masala followed by the Koftas prepared earlier. Allow to cook for 1 minute Malai Kofta Curry with Spinach Gravy is ready. Garnish with cream and serve.
  8. If you want onion in your dish then finely chop 1 onion. After Jeera is roasted put the chopped onion and fry till it turns light brown. Now follow the above given instructions to make Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy.

Koftas are first fried with cheese in thick tomato soup which is then mixed with cream and. I have had malai kofta only once in my life time. This is the second time but I made it myself. First time I had in a restaurant, it was a stuffed version, with cheese or dry fruits I do not remember. I had no idea trying this at home as well.

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