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Vegan Malai Kofta Recipe

 ·  ☕ 5 min read  ·  ✍️ Melvin Barber

Vegan Malai Kofta
Vegan Malai Kofta

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, vegan malai kofta. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This Restaurant-Style Vegan Malai Kofta recipe is the ultimate Indian comfort food. Vegan malai kofta is a delicious Indian dish. Vegan Malai Kofta will be a new dinnertime favorite! Today, we bring you one of our all-time favorite Indian dishes, vegan Malai Kofta.

Vegan Malai Kofta is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Vegan Malai Kofta is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook vegan malai kofta using 24 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Vegan Malai Kofta:
  1. Get 4-5 Potatoes
  2. Get 1 lb extra firm tofu, firm will do as well
  3. Take 1/2 cup or as needed corn starch
  4. Get 2 tbsp minced cilantro with stems
  5. Make ready 1 inch ginger
  6. Get 4 green chilli
  7. Take 1 tbsp lemon juice
  8. Get 1/4 tsp black pepper
  9. Take 1 3/4 tsp salt
  10. Take 1 cup frozen green peas
  11. Get oil for frying or baking
  12. Make ready Curry Tomato Cream Sauce
  13. Make ready 1 large pink onion, coarsely chopped
  14. Get 4-5 diced tomatoes
  15. Make ready 1/4 cup cashews
  16. Get 4 cloves garlic, chopped
  17. Prepare 1 * ginger, chopped
  18. Take 1 1/2 tsp garam masala
  19. Prepare 1 tsp ground turmeric
  20. Take 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
  21. Prepare 1 tsp salt
  22. Make ready 1 (15 oz) can coconut milk
  23. Take 1 tbsp kasoori methi (dried fenugreek leaves)
  24. Take Fresh cilantro, for garnish (optional)

Preparing vegan malai kofta with cashew curry doesn't have to be rocket science. A dish fit for the kings, malai kofta is quite easy to make but can take quite some time to complete. Мaлай кофта - жареные сырные шарики в сметане. Malai kofta recipe - Potato paneer koftas served with a delicious creamy curry. Malai means cream and kofta are fried balls.

Steps to make Vegan Malai Kofta:
  1. In a large heavy bottomed pot add the onions, tomatoes, cashews, garlic, ginger, garam masala, turmeric, cayenne, and salt.
  2. Cover the pot and bring it to a simmer over medium heat. Let simmer covered for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  3. Transfer the onion and tomato mixture to a blender and blend until smooth, making sure it's cool down or vent it properly so hot air doesn't build up in the blender.
  4. Pour the creamy mixture back into the pot and add the coconut milk, reserving little back to serve and crush the methi in your fingers and add to the pot. Mix together and cover the pot and set aside until the kofta are ready.
  5. In a large mixing bowl, mash the tofu by squeezing it until it becomes creamy and no chunks remain. The texture required of ricotta. Or you can blend it in food processor until smooth.
  6. Add the mashed potatoes to the mashed tofu along with the corn starch, minced cilantro, lemon juice, ginger chilli paste, black pepper and salt. Mix together and test the consistency by forming a lemon sized ball. It should hold together.
  7. It can stick to your hands a little, but if it is very sticky or too wet and falling apart, you can add a bit more corn starch.
  8. This can vary on the variety of tofu. Mix in the frozen peas. Shape the kofta and deep fry.
  9. To fry the kofta: Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan over medium-low heat. Test the oil temperature with a small piece of the kofta mixture: the oil should bubble around it and the kofta should float to the surface quickly after being dropped in.
  10. Fry the shaped kofta in batches, and fry until the kofta is a beautiful dark golden brown color, flipping halfway through for even cooking. This should take 5-10 minutes, depending on the temperature of your oil.
  11. When the kofta are cooked, transfer to a paper towel lined plate with a wire strainer.
  12. When ready to serve, pour the gravy /sauce over the kofta (only use the amount you will eat in one sitting, as the kofta get soggy once in the sauce), then pour the reserved coconut milk over top the kofta. Garnish with cilantro if desired. Enjoy with Indian flatbread and/or basmati rice.
  13. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Malai kofta recipe - Potato paneer koftas served with a delicious creamy curry. Malai means cream and kofta are fried balls. So malai kofta literally translates to koftas dunked in a creamy sauce. Kofta - Mostly made with boiled potatoes and crumbled or grated paneer plus few spices. These vegetable paneer balls are then.

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