Indian Recipes: Kadai paneer

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Kadai paneer

Ingredients:

  • 8-10 cashew nuts
  • 2 tsp peanut oil
  • 1 cup fresh curd
  • 1 tsp red chili powder
  • 1 tsp turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp coriander powder
  • 1 tsp garam masala powder
  • 2 tsp kasuri methi
  • 1/2 lemon juice
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil for deep fry
  • 2 tsp puree ghee
  • Fresh coriander leaves chopped
  • 1 tsp fresh cream

Directions:

  1. Heat up a Kadhai, put sufficient oil.
  2. In a hot oil deep fry the paneer pieces and keep aside on tissue paper.
  3. Soak Cashew Nuts in  warm water for 10-15 min and grind them into a fine paste.
  4. Remove oil from the kadhai and add ghee.
  5. Add cumin seeds, green chillies and ginger-garlic paste and saute well.
  6. Add chopped onion and cook for a minute on medium high flame.
  7. Add tomatoes and capsicum.
  8. Add salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and coriander powder, and cook for 5 minutes.
  9. Add cashew paste and curd, mix well.
  10. Add 1/2 cup water and stir for 2-3 minutes.
  11. Add garam masala powder and mix all the spices well in the veggies.
  12. Now you can add fried paneer along with kasuri methi and cook for 2 minutes.
  13. Cook on low flame so that the aroma of spices and methi spreads well into the       curry.
  14. Add lemon juice and mix well.
  15. Kadhai Paneer is ready to rock.
  16. Garnish with 1 tsp of fresh cream and fresh coriander leaves.

"Now the kadai paneer is ready to serve"

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