Malai Kofta Curry

Ingredients

For making koftas

Boiled potatoes – 250 gm

Chopped carrot – 100 gm

Chopped French beans – 100 gm

Chopped cauliflower – 100 gm

Garam masala – 1 tsp

Chilli powder – 1 tsp

Bread slice – 1

Bread crumbs – 2 tbl.sp

Lemon juice – 1 ½ tsp

Garlic cloves – 8

Ginger – 1 inch

Green chillies – 8 or as per taste

Salt as per taste

Oil for cooking

Ingredients for gravy

Onions – 3

Garam masala – 1 tsp

Tomatoes – 5

Corn flour – 1 tbl.sp

Chili powder – 1 tsp

Sugar – 1 tsp

Butter – 4 tbl.sp

Garlic cloves – 10

Ginger – 1 inch

 Green chillies – 4

Cloves – 4

Cinnamon – 1 inch

For baking

Grated cheese – ½ tbl.sp

Fresh cream – 1 tbl.sp

Method

 

For making kofta

Boil peas, steam cauliflower, carrot, French beans. Mash boiled potatoes and add these vegetables to it to make dough. Soak bread slice in water and remove, squeeze the water and add to the masala, add 1 tbl.sp bread crumbs. Make a paste of garlic, ginger and green chilli and add to the masala along with garam masala, chilli powder, lemon juice and salt and mix well and make round balls. Roll these koftas in the bread crumbs and deep fry in oil till it turns golden brown. Keep aside.

For the gravy

Blanch tomatoes and blend into a puree after peeling off the skin or you can even use tomato puree available in the market. Make a paste of onion by adding little water to it. Make a paste of ginger, garlic and green chilli.

Heat butter; add onions and sauté for five minutes till it turns light brown.  Put cloves, cinnamon, ginger garlic paste and again sauté for two minutes. Then add tomato puree and cook for two minutes, then add corn flour paste, sugar, garam masala, chilli powder, salt and pepper and cook for 5 to 7 minutes.

Put the koftas in a baking dish; pour gravy on top of it and then fresh cream. Sprinkle grated cheese on top and bake for 10 to 15 minutes at 200 degree centigrade till the cheese melts.