malai cofta recipe
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What is malai cofta recipe?
Hello friends welcome to the Healthy vegetarian recipes blog, today I brought to you my most popular healthy tasty and rich recipe *malai cofta recipe* it is a vary special dish for guests. Malai koftas are not only popular in Indian cuisine, but are also popular in Middle Eastern, Balkan and Asian cuisines. Malai Kofta is made in two ways in India. One with white gravy and the other with orange gravy. This recipe adds to the glory of festivals and parties. This vegetable is preferred to be prepared on special occasions Malai kofta recipe is a very tasty, healthy and nutrition rich vegetable dish. Paneer khoya and gram flour ball-shaped koftas are a melt-in-the-mouth royal curry made with a fine gravy of onions, tomatoes and cashews. It's taste is very wonderful, in North India people eat it with great fervor, pppp People make it with potato and corn flour but I prefer to make it with gram flour, I like the taste of gram flour. After tasting this once, you feel like eating again and again.
You can eat it with puri paratha rice tadoori roti or naan This vegetable is mainly made in lunch and dinner.
Time to cook 1, 1/2 hour
Ingredients for kofta
200 gram Paneer
100 gram Khoya
2 table spoon gram flour (besan)
1 table spoon corn starch
1/2 tea spoon cumin seeds
1/2 tea spoon chopped garlic
2 table spoon chopped dry fruits raisins and almonds
1/2 tea spoon Salt
1-1/2 table spoon chopped coriander leaves
1/2 fine chopped green chilli
1/4 tea spoon garam masala
1/4 tea spoon red chilli powder
1 table spoon sugger or hunney(optional)
Oil for frying
Water as needed
Instuctions to malai kofta
How to make restaurant style Malai cofta recipe at home?
Take a deep mixing bowl add 200 gram greated paneer,100 gram Khoya, 2 table spoon full gram flour ( besan ),1 table spoon corn starch, 1/2 tea spoon full cumin seeds, 1/2 tea spoon salt, 1/2 tea spoon red chilli powder, 1/2 tea spoon fine chopped green chilli, 1 table spoon chopped almonds, 1 table spoon chopped raisins, 1/2 tea spoon chopped garlic 1-1/2 table spoon chopped coriander leaves, 1/4 tea spoon full garam masala powder, 1 table spoon sugger or hunney, mix properly all the ingredients add water as needed, make dough
Divide equally in 8 parts, give properly smooth shape them like round balls.
Now take a frying pan put oil inside the pan and heat it on the low flame
Fry all the kofta balls on the low flame till they turn golden brown. Remove them from oil.
Ingredients for kofta gravy
1 bey leaf (optional)
2 big onions
2 big tomatos
2 - 3 green cardamom
3 cloves (optional)
1/2 inch peace of cinnamon (optional)
15 to 18 cashew nuts
1 tea spoon ginger garlic paste
Salt according to taste
1/2 tea spoon full red chilli powder
1/4 tea spoon termerik powder
1 table spoon oil
2 table spoon cream for garnish
1 tea spoon coriander leaves for garnish
1 glass of water or milk (your choice)
Make smooth gravy
Take a pan with oil and put it on the cooktop, put 1 bey leaf, green cardamom, cloves, ginger garlic paste. Saute them for 60 seccons, put ruffly cutted onions , saute them turn light pink, add ruffly cutted tomatoes and saute for 3 - 4 minutes add cashew nuts, cinnamon peace, salt, termerik powder, red chilli powder, garam masala,green cardamons, saute them for 2-3 minutes. Now pour 1/2 cup of water and cover the pan with lid until all ingredients turned soft. Let it some cool, blend it with a power full blender and make a super smooth texture
Now put this mixture in the pan and cook until the mixture leaves the bottom and the smell of raw onion and garlic goes away, after that add a glass of water or milk and cook for 10 to 15 minutes If you feel that the gravy is too thick then add some more water or milk. your super smooth gravy is ready.
Note if you add milk instead of water then its taste increases manifold.
Serving suggetions
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Now put all the koftas in a serving bowl, pour gravy on top and sprinkle with cream and coriander leaves.Garnish and serve with roti, naan, puri paratha or jeera rice and win lots of compliments for yourself.
Health benefits of Malai kofta
Malai Kofta ia rich source of Fat and Protein, it's main ingredients are Paneer and Gram flour, both are rich source of Protein, Paneer is rich with Calcium also. Both are very good for our health, Protein helps to make our mussels and produce new body tissues. Calcium is good for bones health.
FAQa
Q.1 What is Malai kofta ?
Malai Kofta is most popular Punjabi Dish, fried Kofta made by Gram flour and Paneer with rich gravy of onions tomatoes ginger garlic paste and cream.
Q.2. Which is the taste of Malai Kofta?
The taste of Malai Kofta creamy, light sweet and salty.
Q.3. Is Malai Kofta healthy?
Malai Kofta is not too much healthy but it's main ingredients like Paneer and Gram flour is very healthy, the both ingredients are healthy
Q.4. Can we make Malai cofta as a vegan cueseni?
If you want to make Malai cofta as a vegan cueseni, you can use Toffu instead of Paneer, you can avoid dairy products.
Nutrition values of Malai Kofta
43% Fat 33.3 gram
60 % Saturated fat 12 gram
20 % Cholesterol 60 mg.
34% Sodium 773 mg
5% Dietary Fibre 1g
9% Protine 5 gram
9% Total Carbohydrate 24 Gram
38% Vitamin A338 mcg
4% Vitamin C 12mg
10 ‰ Iron 1.8 mg
4% Calcium 50 mg
Conclusions
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