Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy
Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy

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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’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Malai Kofta with Spinach Gravy is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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

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

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.

Usually they are made up of mashed potatoes, mix vegetables or paneer. In this delicious restaurant style malai kofta recipe. Delicious spinach and paneer balls in tangy creamy tomato gravy. Deep fried balls (koftas) made with potato and paneer are dunked in a creamy spiced velvety smooth curry. The literal translation of this dish is malai=creamy/buttery and kofta=spiced balls (in this case made of potatoes and paneer).

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