Kadhai Paneer
(from Presi’s recipe box)
Kadhai Paneer,as per the name is paneer in a Kadhai(wok).This is a Punjabi favorite where fried paneer and green bell peppers are cooked in a spicy creamy tomato sauce and flavored with Kasoori Methi(dry fenugrek leaves) and coriander leaves.
Categories: Curry
Ingredients
- Ingredients:-
- Paneer cubed – 100 gms
- Green Peppers/Capsicum cut into squares – 2 medium sized
- Onion quartered and layers seperated – 1 medium sized
- Ginger julienned – a 1/2″ piece
- Garlic cloves chopped fine – 4
- Tomatoes chopped – 2 big
- Green Chillies chopped – 4
- Coriander powder – 2 tbsps
- Chilly powder -1 tsp
- Kasoori Methi – 2 tbsps
- Chopped Coriander leaves – 1/2 cup
- Oil – as needed
- Ghee – 1 tsp
- Salt – to taste
Directions
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Heat ghee in a pan and fry the paneer pieces until they turn slight brown on its sides.Remove and drain into a tissue paper.Now to the same pan add more oil and fry onion and capsicum till onion turn translucent.Remove them from oil and reserve.Now add finely chopped garlic,ginger and chilli to the same pan.Fry it for a while and then add sauteed onion and capsicum into it.Stir in chilly powder and coriander powder.Then add the tomatoes,mix well and cook until tomatoes melt and the oil seperates.Add kasuri methi and salt and stir them together.(If you wish,add a little tomato ketchup at this stage to make it slightly sweet and more creamy.) Finally add the paneer pieces mix well,cover the pan with a lid and simmer for few minutes.Now add chopped coriander leaves,stir and switch off the heat.Again cover and let it stand for few more minutes.Serve hot with rotis.