Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy
Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, malai kofta with spinach gravy. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

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 first prepare a few components. You can have malai kofta with spinach gravy using 24 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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

Instructions 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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