Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, vegan malai kofta. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegan malai kofta using 24 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Vegan Malai Kofta:
- Take 4-5 Potatoes
- Take 1 lb extra firm tofu, firm will do as well
- Prepare 1/2 cup or as needed corn starch
- Take 2 tbsp minced cilantro with stems
- Get 1 inch ginger
- Make ready 4 green chilli
- Prepare 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Make ready 1/4 tsp black pepper
- Take 1 3/4 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 cup frozen green peas
- Make ready oil for frying or baking
- Prepare Curry Tomato Cream Sauce
- Get 1 large pink onion, coarsely chopped
- Make ready 4-5 diced tomatoes
- Get 1/4 cup cashews
- Prepare 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- Get 1 " ginger, chopped
- Get 1 1/2 tsp garam masala
- Make ready 1 tsp ground turmeric
- Make ready 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Take 1 (15 oz) can coconut milk
- Get 1 tbsp kasoori methi (dried fenugreek leaves)
- Take Fresh cilantro, for garnish (optional)
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Steps to make Vegan Malai Kofta:
- In a large heavy bottomed pot add the onions, tomatoes, cashews, garlic, ginger, garam masala, turmeric, cayenne, and salt.
- Cover the pot and bring it to a simmer over medium heat. Let simmer covered for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This can vary on the variety of tofu. Mix in the frozen peas. Shape the kofta and deep fry.
- 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.
- 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.
- When the kofta are cooked, transfer to a paper towel lined plate with a wire strainer.
- 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.
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