Malai Kofta

Malai kofta is a main dish that you can make on any special occasion and can serve it with roti or naan or anything like paratha, missi roti.

Ingredient

• For Kofta
2large boiled potato's
1/2 cup paneer
1tbsp Raisins
1 finely chopped green chilli
Salt to taste
Grated ginger
1/4th tsp Black Pepper
1/4th tsp Garam Masala
1 tbsp minced cilantro (Hara Dhania)
Oil to fry

• For Batter
2tbsp all purpose flour (Maida)
4thsp Water

• For Gravy
2 medium sized Tomato's
2tbsp oil
2 cups of milk
7-8 Cashew's
Pinch Of Asaeftida
1/2 tsp cumin seeds(Jeera)
Ginger
1 green chilli
1/4tsp red chilli powder
Little of turmeric powder
2 tsp Corriander powder
1/2 tsp Garam Masala
Salt to taste
1 tbsp minced cilantro (Hara Dhania)
1 tbsp fresh Cream

Method

Kofta

1. Mix all ingredients together except oil for kofta.
2. Take little bit of oil in hand and rub onto palms. Now with oily hand divide the mixture into equal parts and make small rounded bowls of it.
3. Now set oil to heat up on high flame in a frying pan.
4. Now mix all purpose flour and water for batter and mix well till it becomes smooth.
5. Now dip each bowls into this batter and then place into frying pan.
6. Turn kofta's occasionally and fry them till their color changes to golden brown.

Gravy

1. Soak cashew's in little water for 1 hr.
2. Take tomato's, ginger and green chilli and grind them together in a mixer. place this tomato paste aside.
3. Now grind cashew's also in the mixer.
4. Take 2tsp oil in a pan and fry cashew nuts paste. Once done keep it aside.
5. Now again take oil in the pan. Once its heated up add hing and cumin seeds to it.
6. Add tomato paste to it. Put turmeric powder, corriander powder and red chilli powder. Stir it until oil starts seprating from it.
7. Now add fried cashew paste to it and stir it well so that it get mixes well.
8. Add fresh cream to it and again stir well so that it mixes up properly. Now add milk to it and stir it continuously till it starts boiling.
9. Now add salt and garam masala to it.  If needed add some water.
10. At last add kofta's minced cilantro to it.

Tip

• Add kofta's to the gravy when you are just going to serve as they are very soft and if kept in gravy for long time they start breaking up.
• Before frying kofta's make sure oil is neither too hot or too cold. Check it by putting a small bowl of kofta into it. It should not break up nor should turn its colour immediately.
• If your kofta's are dispersing in oil while frying coat your kofta's with cornflour powder and then fry them. It won't let it get seprated in oil.

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