Malai Kofta

Ingredients for the Kofta:

Potatoes - 4 no,boiled
mashedPaneer - ½ cup
Heavy Cream - 4tspn
Beans - ¼ cup,boiled
Peas - ¼ cup, frozen/Boiled
Green chillies - 4no,crushed
Onion - ½ cup,chopped
Raisins - 5 no,chopped
Red chilli powder - 1tspn
Dhaniya pwd - 1 tspn
Garam masala pwd - ½ tspn
Besan - 2 tspn
Salt to Taste
Oil for frying & cooking

Ingredients for gravy:

Onions,chopped - 2 no
Tomato - 1,boiled and pureed
Garlic - 2 no, crushed
Ginger - 1" inch size piece,crushed
Red chilli pwd - 1tspn
Turmeric - a pinch
Garam masala pwd - ½ tspn
corainder pwd - ½ tspn
Poppy seeds pwd - 4 tspn,fried witout oil
Cashewnuts pwd - 15 no

Method:

1. Mash the boiled potatoes and add grated paneer and all the ingredients one by one and make the mixture into cylindrical size shape with 3" size and keep it aside.
2. Adding Besan to kofta stops splitting while deep frying.Deep fry these koftas to golden brown color.
3. Drain and place koftas on a tissue paper to remove excess oil.
4. Heat Oil in a sauce pan and fry onions until translucent and chopped garlic,ginger and fry along with onions .
5. Remove from fire and grind it into a paste.
6. Heat a tsp of oil and fry this onion paste for 1 minute and add tomato puree andmix and cook until raw smell goes and starts thickening.
7. At this stage ,add garam masala pwd,dhaniya pwd,red chilli pwd,and stirr well.Grind the fried poppy seeds,cashewnuts into a fine paste by adding a ¼ cup of milk(Optional water).
8. Add this ground paste to gravy and mix well and add salt .
9. Cook til the gravy becomes thicken and add malai /heavy cream to make more thicken.
10. When the gravy is ready to serve ,add the koftas and remove from fire.
11. Garnish with Coriander leaves.
12. MalaiKofta goes well with Chapathi,Naan,Kulcha,Roti.