Malai Koftas using Verka Milk and Paneer!
Malai Koftas using Verka Milk and Paneer!
Why Verka Paneer?
Malai koftas are a very popular restaurant dish. The gravy is rich and flavourful and the koftas are soft and velvety. You can easily make them at home when you use a good quality paneer like Verka Paneer. It is important to use the correct amounts of all the ingredients to prepare these delicious koftas. They can be fried, then made into a gravy-dish. They can also be served as a snack, along with a mint chutney or a tomato sauce.
Malai Koftas Recipe:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup dry bread crumbs
- 200 gm Verka Paneer
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp pepper
- ½ tsp garam masala
- 10-12 cashew nuts (or raisins)
- 1-2 tbsp maida
- 2-3 tbsp cornflour
- Oil for frying For gravy
- 2 tbsp oil
- 4 green elaichis
- ½ cup finely grated onion
- 2 green chillies
- 1¼ tbsp ginger garlic paste
- ½ tsp chilly powder
- 1 tsp each ground jeera and dhaniya
- 1 tsp salt
- 4-5 ripe tomatoes
- 15 cashew nuts
- ½ cup Verka milk
- 4 tbsp fresh cream
- ½ tsp garam masala
Method:
- Grate the paneer and mix well with the bread crumbs, salt and pepper.
- Heat the oil for frying. Place the maida and cornflour on two separate plates.
- Shape the mixture into balls, insert a piece or two in the centre of each kofta. Roll in the maida and then in the cornflour.
- Deep fry the koftas in hot oil till golden brown. Do not overcook, or the paneer can turn hard.
- Chop tomatoes and cook in a little water along with the cashew nuts.
- Liquidize in the mixie, then strain.
- Heat 2 tbsp of oil and add crushed elaichis and slit green chillies. Stir till fragrant.
- Add grated onions and cook till almost brown. Now add the ginger garlic paste, chilly powder, dhaniya and jeera powder and salt.
- Cook briefly till the raw garlic smell vanishes.
- Add 2-3 ladles of water, cook and simmer for 5-7 minutes.
- Add the tomato-cashew paste and stir in. Add a little more water if necessary and cook till well blended.
- Add Verka Milk and stir briefly. Do not boil now or the milk may curdle !
- Finally stir in the cream and garam masala. Turn off the heat.
- Arrange the koftas in a shallow bowl and pour the gravy over them. Garnish with a slit chilly and a drizzle of cream.
Fun & Yummy, right? Share the recipe with your fellows and stay tuned for more with Kandla Nijhowne & Verka!