Paneer Butter Masala

Here comes the most wanted recipe..... Many of my friend's too ask this recipe when i meet them.... I had made this for my son's birthday night for dinner... Had made quite a few other dishes as well... Will post the others shortly...

 

 

 

Ingredients:

Paneer (Cut into cubes) - 1 Cup
Onion (boiled and pureed) - 1 Cup
Tomato Puree - 1 Cup

Cashew nut (soaked for 2 hrs and ground to paste) - 2 tbsp
Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp
Salt - 3/4 tsp
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Corriander powder - 1/2 tsp

Bay leaves - 2 nos.

Cloves - 5-6 nos.

Cardamom - 2-3 nos.

Jeera - 1/2 tsp
Garam masala - 1/4 tsp
Cream - 2 tbsp
Corriander leaves and little cream - for garnish
Oil - 1 tbsp
Butter - 1 tbsp

How to make:

1. In a thick bottom pan, add oil and butter, and whole garam masala (bay leaves, cloves, cardamom).

 

2. Now add the jeera and when it splutters, add the onion puree and ginger garlic paste and saute for 2 mins.

3. Add the tomato puree and saute for a minute. Now add the chilli powder, corriander powder, garam masala and salt. Cook for 6-8 min in simmer until the raw flavour of masala disappears. Add the cashewnut paste and cook for another 5 mins.

4. Separately, fry the paneer in little oil, so that the outer crust turns slight brown and put in water. This will help the paneer to remain soft.

5. Once the masala gravy is well cooked, add the cream and blend well. Add paneer and simmer for 2 mins. Garnish with cream and corrainder leaves and serve it hot with roti or rice....

Capsicum Cheese Paratha

Another variety of stuffed paratha. A very tasty paratha....

 

 

 

Ingredients:

 

Atta dough - enough for 4 paratha
Capsicum (Finely chopped) - 1/4 Cup
Cheese (grated) - 1/4 Cup
Paneer (grated) - 1 tbsp
Corriander powder - 1/2 tsp
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Salt - 1 pinch

 

How to make:

 

1. Mix the cheese, panner, capsicum, chilli powder, corriander powder, salt together and make 4 equal balls.

 

2. Divide the dough into 4 parts and stuff each balls inside the dough. Roll it over to make paratha.

 

3. Make paratha with 1 tbsp of ghee/oil. Let it cook on simmer for 2 mins on both the sides so that cheese melts inside the paratha.

 

Masala Paneer Paratha

From a routine chappathi/ side dish wanted to have something different So made paneer stuffed paratha. It was awesome with pickle and boondhi raita. After this decided that every week we should have some stuffed paratha...

 

Ingredients:

For Stuffing

Grated Paneer - 1 Cup
Onion (Finely chopped) - 1/2 cup
Carrot (grated) - 1/2 cup
Tomato (Finely chopped) - 2 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
Green Chilli (Finely chopped) - 1 tbsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Chilli Powder - 1/2 tsp
Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
Corriander leaves (chopped) - 2 tbsp
Oil - 1 tbsp

For the dough

Whole wheat flour - 2 cups
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Water - 3/4 cup
Oil - 2 tbsp

 

How to make :

 

1. Heat the oil in a pan and add the onion and ginger garlic paste. Saute for 5 mins.

 

2. Add carrot, tomato, green chilli and saute for 2 mins. Add salt, chilli powder and garam masala.

 

3. Add the grated paneer and corriander leaves and mix well and remove from stove. The stuffing will be like this.

 

How to make the paratha:

 

1. Make a dough with flour, salt and water. Then add oil to make it soft. Knead it for atleast 10-12 mins to get a soft dough. Leave it for 15-20 mins (If you make the dough first and prepare the stuffing, it will be enough).

 

2. Make small dumplings of the stuffing and stuff in the dough and make round paratha.

 

3. Make paratha with 2 tsp of oil/butter/ghee. Cook the paratha for 4 mins (2 mins on each side).

 

4. Serve it hot with pickle and raita.

 

Malai Kofta

Ever since I started this blog, my friend has been asking me to do Malai Kofta..... Guess now its time to fulfil her wish... I'm making this after a very long time.. Generally Malai Kofta will be little sweetish, so not many like it. But i just love this... In some place atleast the kofta will be spicy.. But the actual malai kofta will not be spicy infact even that will be slightly sweet as Paneer, cashew, raisins are used. I will share my version of Malai Kofta now with you...

Ingredients:

For Kofta

Potato (Boiled & mashed) - 1/2 Cup
Paneer (Grated) - 1/2 Cup
Onion (Finely Chopped) - 2 tbsp
Cashewnut (Soaked for 1 hr) - 5-6 nos.
Raisins - 8-10 nos.
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 tsp
Corn flour - 1 tsp
Water - 2 tbsp
Bread Crumbs - 3 tbsp
Oil - for frying


For Gravy

Onion Puree (Boiled and pureed) - 3/4 Cup
Onion (finely chopped) - 2 tbsp
Tomato Puree - 1 Cup
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Cashewnut (Soaked for 1 hr) - 10 nos.
Almond (Soaked for 1 hr) - 6-8 nos.
Paneer (Grated) - 2 tbsp
Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Garam Masala - 3/4 tsp
Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
Cream - 1/2 cup
Corriander leaves - for Garnish
Oil - 1 tbsp
Ghee - 1tbsp

How to make:

First lets make the koftas......

1. Blend the mashed potato, grated paneer, salt, cashewnut (chopped finely - since its soaked it will be easy to chop), raisins, onion and sugar together. Don't add any water.
(Incase you dont want your kofta to be sweetish and want it little spicy, then remove sugar & raisins and add little chilli powder and garam masala to it. Adjust salt accordingly. You can add carrot, beans also)

2. Make kofta of your desired shape (round balls or oval shaped dumplings, etc)

3. Add the corn flour and water in a bowl. Dip the kofta's in this and roll it over bread crumbs. Freeze this for 15-20 mins.

4. Heat oil for frying, while the oil is in medium heat, fry the kofta's and take it in tissue paper to remove excess oil.

Now its gravy time.......

1. In a thick pan, heat the oil and ghee. Add the onion and ginger garlic paste. Saute for 2-3 mins. Add tomato puree and onion puree. Let it cook for 3 mins.

2. Make a paste of soaked cashewnuts and almonds. Add this paste to the pan.

3. Add the chilli powder, salt, garam masala and cumin powder at this stage. Let this cook till the raw smell disapears.

4. The gravy is almost ready now... Add the cream & grated paneer and blend well. In the serving bowl, place the kofta's and pour the gravy on top of it.

5. Garnish it with cream, paneer and corriander leaves.

Paneer 65

 

 Who doesn't love Paneer ? A super starter before food...  So here is another starter dish with Paneer.... Enjoi...

 

Ingredients:

Paneer (cut into cubes) - 200 gms
Corn flour - 2 tbsp
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
Oil - for fry

How to make:

1. Mix all the ingredients together and leave it for 15 mins.

2. Fry the marinated paneer in hot oil till it turns golden brown..

3. Serve it hot with mint chutney or tomato ketchup.

Paneer Cutlet

Again one of my favorite... You might think what this girl keeps saying most of the things as her favorite... I'm just posting most my favorites..... This is a cutlet made without potato, but no compromise on taste...  Try this absolutely mouth watering paneer cutlet and i bet you would make it very often after that...

 

Ingrdients:

Paneer (grated) - 1 cup
Onion (finely chopped) - 1/2 cup
Tomato (finely chopped) - 1/4 cup
Corriander leaves (finely chopped) -2 tbsp
Curry Leaves (finely chopped) - 2 tbsp
Green Chilli (finely chopped) - 2 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 3/4 tsp
Corn flour - 3 tbsp
Water 50 ml
Bread Crumbs - 100 gms
Oil - for frying

How to make:

1. Mix the first 9 ingredients nicely. Add 2 tbsp of corn flour and sprinkle little water to make it like stiff dough.

 

2. Roll the cutlets to your desired shapes. Mix 50 ml water with 1 tbsp of corn flour.

 

3. Now dip the corn flour water mix and roll it over the bread crumbs.

 

4. Fry these in medium heat oil for 6-8 mins till it turns golden brown...

Paneer Wrap

Wrap are so filling... Its just takes 5 mins if we have the ingredients ready. Now dont think there are too many ingredients, they are just few.... Kids will love this wrap...

Ingredients:

Chappthi - 2
Onion small size - 1
Carrot (grated) - 2 tsp
Paneer - 4 tsp (grated or chopped into small cubes)
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Sweet and sour tomato ketchup - 2 tsp ( u can  also use chilli garlic tomato ketchup also)
Mint chutney - 1 tsp
Oil - 1 tsp

How to make:

1. In a pan saute the onion, carrot with 1 spoon of oil for 1 min and add the paneer.

2.Add tomato ketchup and salt and saute for 1 more min.

3. Now in 1 side of the chappthi spread this mixture and sprinkle some mint chutney on top of it.

4. Roll this, cut into pieces and start munching....

You can make this spicy, sweet, sour.. All you have to do is to add your favorite sauce or veg to it... Non veg lovers can also add sausage to it.....

Note: If you like cheese, pls add while you spread the sauteed mixture and after rolling it, keep it in microwave for 30 sec, so that the cheese will melt. You can also add Mayonaise.... make your favorite wrap and enjoy ... !