Butter Paneer
By: Alka
Website: http://sindhirasoi.com
Rating
Rating: 3.4 / 5 stars - 12 vote(s).
Category: Vegetarian
Dish type: Main Dish
Key ingredients: Paneer(cottage cheese), onions,tomato
Time: Less than 1 hour
Procedure:
Ingredients:
* Paneer(cottage cheese) 150 gms
* Onions 3 +1(???…explained below !)
* Tomato 2 small
* Green chillies 2
* Ginger
* Garlic 5 cloves
* Milk 1 cup
* Turmeric powder 1/4 tspn
* Garam masala powder 1/4 tspn
* kitchen king less than 1/4 tspn
* kasuri methi 1/4 tspn
* Salt
* Butter 1 tspn(optional)
* Fresh cream 2 tspn or Unsweetened mawa(optional) 2 tspn or more
* Cashews 5
* Tejpatta(Bay leaf) 1
* Cloves 2
* Javitri(mace) just two small strands
* Dal chini(cinnamon stck)just a bit
Method:
* Cut the paneer into cubes and keep them is salted water
* Peel and slice 3 onions
* Shallow fry them in 1 tbspn of oil,in a heavy bottom kadai/pan/nonstick pan,on medium flame,till evenly browned(do not char the onions)
* Meanwhile grind ginger garlic with little of water to make a paste
* Boil cashews in a cup of water for 2 min,then grind them to make cashew paste
* Grind tomato and green chillies and keep aside
* Peel and grind one onion (this expalins 3+1 onions in ingredients list) with little of water and make a paste.Keep it aside
* Now finally grind browned onions(phew…..so much of grinding !) and keep this paste aside too
* Now in the pan/kadai,put some oil,and saute a tejpatta ,javitri,cloves,dalchini,and add ginger garlic paste
* Saute it till the paste changes to pinkish colour,then add raw onion paste
* Saute it properly till onion paste turns brownish(this paste give the dense smooth texture to gravy) .You can also boil the onion first and then make paste
* Now add browned onion paste,tomatochilly paste,salt,turmeric powder,garam masala powder,kitchen king,kasurimethi and mix properly till the oil separates out
* Now add cashew paste,milk ,butter(optional),fresh cream/unsweetened mawa(optional)(….i never use them,i prefer adding milk) and adjust the seasoning
Finally add paneer cubes and mix properly
* Let it simmer (add some water if needed) for few minutes
* Garnish with coriander leaves and/or grated paneer/fresh cream and serve with roti/phulka/naan
* Note: This gravy taste better if curd is used(1/2 cup),in that case reduce the quantity of tomato But since i avoid using curd and milk together in gravy,u can proceed with adding curd and skipping milk
