Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, malai kofta in red gravy. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Check out the recipe of Malai Kofta in Red Gravy. I've already posted the recipe of Malai Kofta in White Gravy a few days ago. White gravy is little sweet in taste and red gravy is spicy in taste.
Malai kofta in red gravy is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Malai kofta in red gravy is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook malai kofta in red gravy using 34 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Malai kofta in red gravy:
- Get For red gravy-
- Prepare butter
- Prepare oil
- Make ready ginger-garlic-green chillies paste
- Take big onion very finely chopped onion
- Take medium to big tomatoes grated
- Get as per taste Salt
- Take dhaniya jeera powder
- Take jeera powder
- Take Kashmiri red chilli powder
- Prepare kitchen king masala/paubhaji masala
- Prepare turmeric powder
- Take as per taste Salt
- Make ready kasoori methi
- Get cashew nuts(soak in water for 30 min)
- Make ready magattari seeds(soak in water for 30 min)
- Make ready poppy seeds(soak in water for 30 min)
- Get fresh cream
- Prepare grated cheese
- Get milk powder
- Get For Kofta - outer layer
- Take big size potatoes
- Take corn flour
- Prepare as per taste Salt
- Get For For Kofta - stuffing-
- Make ready ginger green chillies paste
- Take chopped almond and cashew nuts
- Make ready chopped sultanas (dry grapes)
- Take salt
- Prepare cardemom powder
- Prepare milk powder
- Prepare chopped coriander
- Prepare paneer crumbs
- Take as required Oil to fry
Then they are added into smooth, rich Punjabi red gravy. This red gravy is made from onion, tomato, cashew nuts. 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 in red gravy:
- To prepare gravy, first heat oil and butter in a nonstick pan. Fry ginger-garlic-green chilli paste and then onion till it turns slightly brown.
- Add grated tomatoes, salt, chilli powder, jeera powder, kitchen king masala, and dhaniya jeera powder. Toss kasoori methi a bit till crunchy and then rub it in between your palms over the curry. Mix everything and fry well for about 3-4 min or till oil oozes. Make a smooth paste of cashew, magattari and poppy seeds using a bit of water to grind. Add it in the gravy. Combine everything.
- Lightly run the paubhaji crusher through this mixure and mash it up to get smooth texture as much as possible. Add about 1/4 cup water, mix and then add milk powder. Combine well and fry for a minute or two or till oil oozes. Add a cup or two water to adjust the consistency of the gravy. Add fresh cream and cheese. Blend everything well and fry till oil oozes on the surface. Gravy is ready.
- For kofta: Boil potatoes in salty water. Peel and mash them smooth. Add salt and cornflour. Combine everything well and ensure that there are no pieces of potatoes left in it. Combine all the items for kofta stuffing.
- Take a lemon size ball of potato, make it smooth in your palm. Press it between the palms to make thepli. Fold your palm a bit to make the pli deep in between. Fill in the stuffing and seal it gently. You can fold your palm further more to bring the edges together to make it easy to seal.
- Press and turn this ball gently like you are making laddus. This will seal the kofta well all around and shape it. Make smooth balls. Sprinkle a little corn over them. Shake a ball at a time on your fingers to spread the flour evenly and to get rid of excess flour.
- Heat oil near to smoking temperature. Put a ball on the frying spoon and gently slide it in the oil. Place a few ball like this in the oil and fry light brown. Remove from oil.
- For Serving : just at the time of serving, place the koftas in the serving plate. Pour gravy over them and garnish with fresh cream.
The gravy or curry can be kept white or colored red or brown by using spice powders and tomato puree. Both ways the malai kofta tastes good. Malai Kofta is made in a thick creamy gravy made from ground cashew nuts, onion, tomato and various spices. The red color in the gravy comes from the addition of tomatoes and red chilli powder. Malai Kofta dish goes very with all Indian breads like naan, roti, missi moti as.
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