Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, malai kofta with spinach gravy. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Malai Kofta is a very tasty dish to relish, and it gets much better with Palak gravy. Prepare Kofta on a special occasion or if you have any guests coming Now follow the above given instructions to make Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy. You can prepare the gravy in different ways, Cashew nut gravy.
Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have malai kofta with spinach gravy using 24 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy:
- Prepare 200 grams Paneer (cheese) -
- Prepare 100 grams Mawa -
- Make ready 2-3 Potatoes -(boiled)
- Take 7-8 Cashew nuts
- Take 1 inch Ginger long piece(grated)
- Get - 15 to 16 Raisins
- Take as needed Oil -to fry Koftas
- Prepare For Spinach Gravy:
- Get 1 bunch (500 grams) Palak(spinach)
- Get 1/2 tsp Sugar
- Make ready 3 to 4 Tomatoes - (medium sized)
- Make ready 2 to 3 Green chilli
- Get 1 pinch Heeng(asafoetida)
- Make ready 1 inch Ginger
- Make ready 2 tbsp Oil
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Jeera(cumin seeds) if you want
- Take 2 tsp (if you want) Kasuri Methi
- Take 2 tsp Gram flour
- Prepare 2 tbsp Cream/malai - (if you want)
- Take add to taste (1 tsp) Salt
- Make ready 1/4 tsp Garam masala
- Get 2 tsp (if you prefer more of sour) Lemon juice
- Take add to taste Salt -(1/2 tsp) -
- Make ready 2 tbsp Corn flour/arrowroot -
So malai kofta literally translates to koftas dunked in a How is malai kofta made? Firstly a smooth and creamy gravy is made with onions, tomatoes, cashews. Malai kofta is a popular as well as most sought after vegetarian Indian dish in restaurants. Malai means cream and Kofta are fried dumpling balls.
Steps to make Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Usually they are made up of mashed potatoes, mix vegetables or paneer. In this delicious restaurant style malai kofta recipe. Delicious Paneer kofta in rich palak gravy is a delightful dish indeed! The kofta melts in the mouth and the flavors of paneer and the dry fruit make you. Deep fried balls (koftas) made with potato and paneer are dunked in a creamy spiced velvety smooth curry.
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