Monday, February 27, 2012

Kadhai Paneer

Ingredients:-
1:-
Tomato puree- 3 cups( canned or made from 8 tomatoes)
Ginger-25gm
Garlic- 1 pod
Green chillies-2
Bay leaf-1 small
Cardamom-1
2:-

Paneer-400gm cubed
Ghee-4 tblspns
Oil

3:-
Onion-1 big quartered
Capsicum red and green- 1 each
Kashmiri chilly-2 tspn(heaped)
Cumin pwdr- 1 tspn(heaped)
Coriander pwdr-2 tblspn(heaped)
Pepper crushed- 2 leveled tspn

Kasoori methi- 2 tblspn ppwdered
Coriander leaves- 3 tblspns chopped
Salt to taste

Direction:-

  • Cook the first set of ingredients with one cup of water in a medium low flame for 15min. Make a puree of it.
  • Meanwhile fry paneer with some salt in ghee and required oil. It is just a shallow fry.
  • In the residue oil fry onion and capsicums till they turn crunchy and not fully cooked. 
  • Add spices and fry the mixture at high flame for 2 min so that the spices get cooked.
  • Now add the tomato puree and fried paneer. Stir well and let it sit in low flame ( gas mark-2) for 10min. Add kasoori methi and coriander leaves. Add salt to taste and stir well . Switch off the stove .
  • Serve hot with chappathi, paratha, cumin rice, naan, bathura etc.
BON APPETITE:)






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