Paneer Curry Recipe (Restaurant Style Gravy)
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Recipe by Dassana's Veg Recipes.
Ingredients
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- 1¼ oz or 1 large onion (– roughly chopped)14 cal
- 2⅛ oz or 2 large tomato (– roughly chopped)10 cal
- ⅓ oz or 12 to 15 cashews (– soaked in ½ cup hot water)0 cal
- ⅓ tsp ginger garlic paste1 cal
- 2⅜ oz paneer (Indian cottage cheese, cut in cubes or squares)65 cal
- 1 tbsp oil133 cal
- a pinch of turmeric powder1 cal
- 3 pinches of red chilli powder (or add as per taste)1 cal
- 3 pinches of coriander powder1 cal
- 3 pinches of garam masala1 cal
- ⅔ green chilies (– slit)0 cal
- ⅓ tbsp coriander leaves (– chopped)7 cal
- salt (as required)0 cal
- ½ cup water (or add as required)0 cal
- 3 pinches of kasuri methi (dry fenugreek leaves)0 cal
- ⅔ tbsp light cream (or low fat cream or 1 tablespoon whipping cream)19 cal
- a pinch of sugar (– optional)2 cal
- ⅓ tbsp chopped coriander leaves (– for garnish)7 cal
Contains milk, tree nuts
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Method
- 01
First soak 12 to 15 cashews in hot water for 20 to 30 minutes.
- 02
When the cashews are soaking, roughly chop 2 large tomatoes, 1 large onion, 1 inch ginger and 6 to 7 small to medium garlic cloves. Crush the ginger and garlic to a paste in mortar-pestle.
- 03
In a blender jar or grinder jar, take the chopped onions. Without adding any water grind or blend to a smooth paste.
- 04
Remove the onion paste in a bowl and keep aside.
- 05
To the same grinder jar, add chopped tomatoes. Also add the soaked cashews.
- 06
Again without adding any water, grind or blend both tomatoes and cashews to a smooth paste. Keep the jar aside.
- 07
Heat tablespoons oil in a thick bottomed pan or kadai.
- 08
Add the onion paste.
- 09
On a low heat begin to sauté the onion paste. Keep on stirring often while sautéing the onion paste. Sauté till the onion paste becomes light golden or golden.
- 10
Then add the crushed ginger-garlic paste. If using ready ginger-garlic paste, then add 1 teaspoon of it.
- 11
Stir and saute for a few seconds or till the raw aroma of ginger-garlic goes away.
- 12
Now add the tomato+cashew paste. Be careful as the mixture can splutter.
- 13
Mix everything very well and begin to saute the masala on a low flame.
- 14
While the masala is getting sauteed, add 1.5 cups water in the grinder jar. Swirl the jar so that the tomato paste at the sides and at the bottom get mixed with the water. If you want you can even run the mixer once, so that everything gets mixed well. Keep aside.
- 15
Saute the onion-tomato masala till you see some fat releasing from the sides. The masala will also become glossy.
- 16
Then add turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander powder and garam masala powder.
- 17
Stir and mix the spice powders very well.
- 18
Add 1 or 2 slit green chilies.
- 19
Add the water which was mixed with the leftover tomato+cashew paste in grinder jar.
- 20
Season with salt as required. Also add 1 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves.
- 21
On a low to medium heat, simmer the cottage cheese curry till it thickens a bit and you see oil specks on top.
- 22
Then add paneer cubes.
- 23
Add ½ teaspoon kasuri methi, which has been crushed. Mix well and switch off the heat.
- 24
Then add 2 tablespoons low fat cream or light cream or 1 tablespoon of whipping cream.
- 25
Mix the cream very well with the rest of the cottage cheese curry. Switch off the heat.
- 26
Serve this paneer gravy garnished with some coriander leaves accompanied with chapati, paratha, naan or steamed rice or cumin rice or saffron rice.