Malai Kofta

A rich creamy tangy spiced tomato curry with soft kofta's served with hot ghee rice. Navratri wishes to all my readers and do try this recipe to celebrate special occasions with your near and dear ones.


Ingredients

Kofta

• 1 cup paneer crumbled
• 1 cup boiled mashed potato
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger paste
• 1 small onion finely chopped
• 2 table spoon cornflour
• 1/2 teaspoon garam masala
• handful of coriander chopped finely
• salt

Gravy

• 3 medium tomatoes sliced
• 2 onions sliced
• 10 cashewnuts
• 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
• 1 teaspoon Kashmiri chilli powder
• 1 teaspoon garam masala
• 2 green chillies chopped
• 1 teaspoon kasuri methi
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• 2 tablespoon cream 
• 1 tablespoon butter

Mix all the ingredients in kofta recipe to make around 10 to 15 lemon sized koftas. Dust these koftas in cornflour and deep fry them.

In a pan add tomatoes, onions, cashew nuts, 1 teaspoon redchilli powder along with half cup water and cook until the tomatoes are soft and mushy. Once it has cooled, blend this to a fine smooth paste. Melt butter, to this add ginger garlic paste, green chillies,garam masala and sauté for 3 minutes. Pour the blended gravy plus 3/4cupwater  and let this simmer in low flame for about 10 to 15 min. Cover and cook the gravy to avoid messy cooktops. Once the gravy is reduced add the koftas, sugar and cream. Simmer for 5 minutes and garnish with coriander and kasuri methi leaves. Serve warm with rice, phulkas or nan.

 Do Note

• Some prefer koftas stuffed with dry fruits. For that chop almond, raisins and cashews and stuff it while making koftas.