Malai kofta (healthy version) with Jeera rice. Malai kofta is a popular as well as most sought after vegetarian Indian dish in restaurants. In this delicious restaurant style malai kofta recipe, the kofta are made with paneer and potatoes. Malai kofta is best served with roti or paratha or naan or roomali roti.

Paneer and Potato combine in a magical way to form this popular dish. Malai Kofta - Paneer or Cottage Splutter jeera. Malai Kofta is a very popular North Indian dish & undoubtedly tops the list of foods ordered at Indian The recipe has evolved over time to this vegetarian version. You can cook Malai kofta (healthy version) with Jeera rice using 26 ingredients and 25 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Malai kofta (healthy version) with Jeera rice

Prepare of Kofta balls.
It's 4 of boil potatoes.
You need 100 gm of grated paneer.
It's of Cornflour.
Prepare of Gravy.
You need 3 of roughly chopped Tomato.
You need 1 of roughly chopped Onion.
You need 5 of cashew nuts.
You need of Few Melon seeds.
It's 1 of Tej patta.
You need 2 of cardamom.
You need 2 of cloves.
It's 1 tsp of Cumin seeds.
Prepare 2 of green chillies.
It's of Curd.
You need of Oil.
It's of Masale.
It's of Tumeric powder.
Prepare of Red chilly powder.
Prepare of Garam masala.
You need of Salt.
You need of Black pepper.
Prepare of Jeera Rice.
It's 1 cup of Rice.
It's of Water.
Prepare of Coriander leaver.

There are many varieties of Kofta Malai Kofta dish goes very with all Indian breads like naan, roti, missi moti as well as with various varieties. Malai Kofta is a well recognized Indian curry dish which is traditionally very rich. Serve hot with Naan or Rice. Prefer healthy version of koftas, use appe pan to cook your koftas - like I did in non fried lauki koftas.

Malai kofta (healthy version) with Jeera rice step by step

Soak the rice in water for about an hour..
Now take a vessel and add boil potato, grated paneer, chopped 1 green chilly, 1tbsp corn flour..
Add salt to taste, black pepper and mix well..
Now take little oil in hand and make kofta balls. Cover the balls in dry cornflour..
Now take appam pan and drizzle little oil in it. Cook the balls on all side nicely in appam pan until balls are crispy..
If you want you can also fry these balls. The previous step is for making it in healthy way..
Keep these balls aside amd start preparing for gravy..
Take a pan and heat little oil..
Add cloves, cardamom, tej oatta, cumin seeds,chopped green chillies..
Add onion and little salt in it..
When onion becomes translucent,add tomatoes and cashew nut..
Keep cooking until tomatoes are soft and mashy..
Now turn off the heat and allow it to cool..
Once it is cool, transfer it in mixer and grind it into fine paste. Add little water as needed..
Filter this paste in a vessel with the help of chhanni so that any granule part is removed and smooth gravy comes out.
Again add little oil in the pan and add 1 tsp red chilly powder and add tgis gravy instanty..
After mixing you will see a nice colour is added due to previous step. Now add 1/2 tsp tumeric powder, 1/2 tsp garam masala, black pepper to taste and mix well..
Cook untill gravy is cooked well and it leaves oil from its side. At this stage add salt to taste and 2 tsp curd..
Add little water and mix and let it boil and cook for 5 minutes..
For jeera rice, boil the rice and heat little ghee in a pan..
Add 1 tsp cumin seeds and 1/2 cup of roughly chopped coriander leaves..
Add salt to taste and black pepper to taste..
Add rice in it and mix well. Cook it for two minutes..
Tadaaaaa... Evrything is ready...now take a plate and placed rice in it. Take a katori, add kofta balls and then add gravy in it..
Enjoy these no fry or less oil malai kofta with jeera rice😁😋😋.

Malai Kofta is a classic North Indian staple dish. Malai Kofta is a classic North Indian staple dish. With Malai Kofta, it is always celebration time! You could microwave or shallow fry the koftas if you Malai Kofta recipe with step by step photos. For the koftas of the Malai Kofta.