Malai Kofta / Paneer Dumplings

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Updated: 31 Mar, 2019 • 0 • min read

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malai kofta is a pop equally good equally most sought afterwards vegetarian Indian dish inwards restaurants. malai means cream together with kofta are fried dumpling balls. They are made upward of mashed potatoes together with paneer. This oval and crispy koftas amongst a gorgeous dry out fruit filling are soaked inwards a flavorful gravy to give your children a perfect weekend meal.

One to a greater extent than rich together with creamy recipe for kids. For to a greater extent than paneer recipes you lot tin give the sack see Butter paneer, shahi paneer, paneer labadar and paneer tikka

INGREDIENTS

For Kofta:

1 loving cup boiled potatoes

1 loving cup mashed or grated paneer

1 TSP finely chopped ginger

ii tbsp finely chopped cashews( optional)
1 tbsp finely chopped raisins (optional)

ii tbsp cornflour

Salt together with chilli to taste

Generous amount of freshly chopped coriander leaves

For Gravy:

1 TSP oil

iv TSP butter

1/2 stick cinnamon

2-3 bay leaves ( tej pata)

2-3 cloves ( laung)

1 dark cardamom( badi elachi)

ii greenish cardamom (choti elachi)

1 TSP cumin( jeera)

1/4 tsp nutmeg (jaiphal)

1 loving cup around sliced onions

ii cups around chopped tomatoes

1 TSP finely chopped ginger

6-8 garlic pods

1 TSP turmeric pulverization ( haldi powder)

1 TSP chili pulverization ( LAL mirch )

1 TSP coriander pulverization ( dhaniya powder)

1 TSP cumin pulverization ( jeera powder)
1 tsp dry out fenugreek leaves (kasuri meethi)

1 1/2 loving cup water
1/2 tsp saccharide or 1 tsp beloved

6-7 cashews

Salt to taste

METHOD

For Kofta:

1. Grate boiled potatoes or squelch it.Grate or squelch paneer.

2. Add all the ingredients mentioned nether Kofta. Mash it well.

3. Using your hands give it Kofta shape. You tin give the sack brand both oval together with circular shape depending on your preference.

4. I took out a modest amount to banking concern gibe the binding, earlier frying koftas, drib the fiddling ball to banking concern gibe if it's non breaking, inwards case, it breaks or slits add together 1 to a greater extent than teaspoon of cornflour.

5. After giving it Kofta shape continue inwards refrigerator past times the fourth dimension laid your curry.

6. Once you lot are done making curry, deep fry kofta's on depression to medium flaming till dark-brown together with crisp.

7. Remove on absorbent newspaper together with allow it come upward downwardly to room temperature.

8. Before serving, commencement set kofta on serving bowl together with pour hot curry over it.

For Gravy:
1. Add crude oil together with melt butter inwards pan, add together cumin, allow it splutter.

2. Add cinnamon stick, bay leaf, cloves together with cardamoms. Grate merely 1/4 tsp of nutmeg.

3. Add around sliced onions, saute till they are translucent. Don't plough them brown.

4. Add tomatoes, ginger-garlic together with cashews amongst all the spices mentioned above.

5. Pour inwards water, embrace amongst hat together with ready on medium flaming till tomatoes together with cashews larn soft together with tender.

6. Turn off the flaming together with allow it come upward downwardly to room temperature. Remove bay leafage together with blend it to brand smoothen paste.

7. Strain the gravy using strainer.

8. Transfer it dorsum inwards pan, add together 1-2 to a greater extent than tbsp of butter.

9. Add salt, sugar, kasuri meethi together with ready on depression flaming for 10-15 minutes or till gravy becomes till thick.

10. Add coriander leaves, plough off the flaming together with add together cream.

11. For serving, commencement set kofta on serving bowl together with pour hot curry over it.

NOTES:

1. I grated both potatoes together with paneer for smoothen together with fifty-fifty texture. If you lot squelch it brand certain it should last smoothen together with evenly mashed.

2. Keep Kofta earlier frying inwards refrigerator for nigh 15-20 minutes for best results.

3. Don't over add together nutmeg else it volition give likewise rigid flavor.

4. Don't allow gravy larn likewise thick, equally afterwards coming downwardly to room temperature till thickens further.

Pictorial:

1. Grate potato.

2. Grate paneer.

3. Add salt, chili together with balance of the ingredients mentioned nether it.

4. Mix together with squelch well.

5. Make koftas.

6. Once all done, continue inwards refrigerator for 15-20 minutes.

For Gravy:

1. Heat crude oil together with melt butter.

2. Add cumin seeds, allow it splutter.

3. Add tej pata, clove, cardamom.

4. Grate nutmeg.

5. Add onions.

6. Saute till soft, no ask to plough it brown.

7. Add tomatoes.

8. Add ginger-garlic, cashews together with all the spices mentioned.

9. Add water.

10. Cover together with ready till tomatoes together with cashews larn soft.

11. Let gravy come upward downwardly to room temperature.

12. Transfer inwards blender jar.

13. Sieve it to larn fine together with creamy paste.

14. Add fiddling H2O if glue is thick.

15. Transfer inwards same pan, add together 1 tbsp butter.

16. Add salt, saccharide together with kasuri meethi. Cook on depression flaming for v minutes.By the fourth dimension gravy is getting cooked let's fry koftas.

17. First fry fiddling fleck of kofta or you lot tin give the sack fry i kofta at a fourth dimension to banking concern gibe it's non getting scattered.

18. Keep flaming depression to medium.

19. Make certain crude oil is hot together with don't over-crowd the vessel.

20. Deep fry till crisp together with brown, don't plough koftas really oftentimes merely i time or twice. Take them on absorbent newspaper together with continue aside.