Restaurant Like Paneer Malai Kofta Recipe

Paneer Malai Kofta is a popular vegetarian Indian dish. It consists of fried paneer dumplings and creamy rich curry and is extremely delightful.

The dumplings, that are called Kofta, are easy to melt in your mouth.  And the gravy is rich, creamy, and slightly sweet due to the natural sweetness of the onion in it.

You can experiment a little here and there in the gravy. Either make a paste of cashew nuts like we make in here. Or else, you can use cream to get the consistency in your gravy. You can also add butter to give your gravy to make the texture glistening and silky.

These Koftas are also great as snacks. Just make it crisper while frying. You will have your own unique snack that you can enjoy with sauce.

Paneer malai kofta tastes best with roti, paratha, naan, phulkas or roomali roti. Jeera rice or steamed rice also goes well with this recipe.

It is generally white in color when we eat it in restaurants. Tomatoes or ingredients that add color is not to add in it. But we can give our own twists to the recipe and make it more colorful. It is good either way.

To make it more delicious, it will be good to prepare even the paneer at home. Add tofu to this recipe, leave the cream and you will have a vegan version of this dish.

Try our similar recipes like Cauliflower Kofta Gravy and Palak Kofta Curry.

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Ingredients of Paneer Malai Kofta

• For Kofta

• Potato - 2 large pcs (boiled & crumbled)
• Paneer - 150 gms (crumbled)
• Red Chili Powder - 1 tbsp
• Garam Masala - 3/4 tsp
• Salt - 1 tbsp
• Corn Flour - 2 tbsp
• Dry Green Raisins - 20 gm
• Corn Flour - For Coating
• Cooking Oil - to deep fry

• For masala

• Cooking Oil - 3 tbsp
• Almonds - 10-12 pcs (Whole)
• Cashews - 10-12 pcs (Whole)
• Ginger - 2 inch pcs a handful
• Green Chili - 2 pcs
• Garlic - 10-15 pcs (Whole)
• Onion - 2 pcs small size (Cut)

• For curry

• Cooking Oil - 4 tbsp
• Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
• Red Chili Powder - 1 tbsp
• Coriander Powder - 1 tbsp
• Salt - 3/4 tbsp
• Tomato Puree - 1 bowl medium size
• Coriander - 1 bowl small size (Chopped)
• Water - 3/4 glass
• Milk Cream - 1 small bowl

Steps for Paneer Malai Kofta

• For kofta

• Take a bowl. Add potatoes, paneer, red chili powder, garam masala, salt, and cornflour. Mix well.
• Now make balls out of the mixture. Put Raisins and coat the balls with cornflour. Make balls out of all the mixture.
• Now take a deep vessel and add cooking oil. Heat the oil to deep fry the koftas.
• Add koftas one by one and deep fry them. Make sure they don't burn or open during frying. Your koftas are ready now.

• For masala

• Take a pan, add cooking oil. Now add almonds, cashews, ginger, green chili, garlic. Saute everything for 2 minutes.
• Now add cut onions and mix well. Saute onions for a minute. Take out the mixture in a bowl and let it cool down.
• Now grind the mixture and take it out in a separate bowl.

• For curry

• Turn on the flame, heat the pan, and add cooking oil.Add turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder, salt, coriander powder and tomato puree. Mix everything well.
• Now add the sauteed and ground masala. Mix again.
• Add chopped coriander and mix well. Cook the thick paste for 2 minutes.
• Add water and mix. Cook again for a minute then turn off the flame.
• Now add malai. The malai must be at room temperature. Mix the malai in the gravy.
• Now place all kofta carefully into the gravy. Make sure you don't splash the gravy with kofta while putting them in. Do it gently.
• Paneer malai kofta is ready.

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