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Malai Kofta
August 12th, 2008 filed under Paneer (Indian Cheese)
Malai kofta is a delicious and rich main dish for any special occasion.
Recipe serves 4 to 6.
Ingredients:
- Kofta:
- 1 cup boiled mash potatoes
- 1 cup mash paneer
- 2 tablespoon minced cilantro (hara dhania)
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin seed (jeera)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 small finally chopped green chili
For Batter:
- 2 tablespoon all purpose flour (maida, plain flour)
- 4 tablespoon water
Also needed:
- Oil to fry
- Gravy:
- 2 tablespoon oil
- Generous pinch asafetida (hing)
- 1 teaspoon cumin seed (jeera)
- 2 medium tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon shredded ginger (adrak)
- 1 green chili
- 1 tablespoon coriander powder (dhania)
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric (haldi)
- 1/4 teaspoon red chili powder
- 1 teaspoon all purpose flour (maida, plain flour)
- 1/4 cup cream
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (adjust to taste)
- 1/4 teaspoon garam masala
- 2 tablespoon minced cilantro (hara dhania)
Method
Kofta
- Mix all the ingredients together for kofta,
- With oiled hands, divide the mixture into 14 to 16 equal parts.
- Make them in round balls.
- Mix flour with about 4 tablespoons of water and mix well until batter is smooth.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan on medium high heat.
- The frying pan should have at least 1 1/2 inch of oil. To check if the oil is ready, just put one small piece of mix in the oil, it should come up right away but not change color.
- Dip the paneer balls in the batter one at a time and slowly drop into the frying pan.
- Turn them occasionally. Fry koftas until golden-brown all around.
Gravy:
- Blend the tomatoes, green chilies and ginger to make a puree. If you prefer mild take the seeds out of green chili before blending.
- Mix cream and flour and keep aside.
- Heat the oil in a saucepan. Test the heat by adding one cumin seed to the oil; if it cracks right away oil is ready.
- Add the hing and cumin seeds.
- Add the tomato puree, coriander powder, turmeric, red chili powder and cook for about 4 minutes on medium heat.
- Tomato mixture will start leaving the oil and will reduce to about half in quantity.
- Add milk and flour mix, salt and one cup of water and let it cook covered for 7 to 8 minutes on medium heat.
- Add the garam masala, salt and cilantro. Let it cook for another minute.
- Add koftas as soon it comes to boil turn off the heat. Note: koftas will expand to about 11/2 times, if you like more gravy this is the time to add some more boiled water and adjust salt.
- Koftas are very soft they should be added to the gravy when you are ready to serve, otherwise koftas will break.
Dear All
I was reading the comments for substitution of cream….how bout using a paste of skimmed milk powder mixed with water ???
Anuradha
Looks really yummy… gonna make it for my hubby tonight…
Manjulaji
Your recipes are awesome….
Regarding Malai kofta gravy can I use 2% milk instead of cream??? Also Is the gravy same for Vegetable Kofta too?
Hi Bharathi,
I have done recipes making the gravies little different, wanted to show that you can play around with ingredients as per your taste. Just experiment and make the changes.
hello aunty,
i want to know how to make white gravy of malai kofta.
Dear Aunty,
How are you?
I tried your malai Kofta came very well. But i used sweetned condensed milk.
Please tell me what is cream? (evaporated milk? or condensed milk? or whiped cream? ) please calrify my doubt as soon as possibe aunty.
Is possible to make cream at home?
Cream is basically milk with more fat. You should find it in the same section of the store that has milk. It will be labeled “light cream” or “heavy cream”. Use either. The only difference is heavy cream has more fat in it.
The other items you listed will are not cream.
Hello Manjula,
I can not wait to try your Malai Kofta recipe, your video made it look quite easy.
Thank you,
Lisa
Can I make the kofta balls with cottage cheese intead of paneer
hello Manjula Aunty,
I’ve tried many of ur recipes specially snacks n sweets and they always comes out very well.
The quantity u give is so much perfect for a small family.Today i tried malai kofta……but koftas
started to break when i turned them while frying.Can u pls tell me what could be the reason?
Anyways thanks a lot aunty for proving so many recipes.
Hi Manjulaji,
I like the way u show how to cook which seem so differnt from reading and know how much to add to the recipe. Your recipes r very easy and come out the exact way they should be. Can u pls show how to make plain eggless cake.
Thank you
Hi Aunty,
i love your recipes b’coz, u do not add onions and garlic as my husband don’t not eat onion and garlic as he is in the art of living. I used to search for the recipes that do not have onion and garlic.thanks for ur recipes.