Discover the Flavors of Homemade Kadai Paneer
Ingredients:
- 250 gms paneer/cottage cheese, cubed
- 5-6 medium tomatoes/tamatar, chopped
- 1 or 2 green chilies/hari mirch, chopped
- 6-7 garlic/lahsun, crushed
- 1.5 inch ginger/adrak, half crushed and half julienned
- 2 green bell
- peppers/capsicum/shimla mirch, julienned
- 5-6 kashmiri red chilies
- 1.5 tbsp coriander seeds/dhania seeds, roasted
- 1.5 to 2 tsp crushed kasuri methi/dry fenugreek leaves
- ½ tsp garam masala powder
- ½ cup chopped coriander/cilantro leaves/dhania
- 2 tbsp salt or black salt
Instruction:
- Start by rinsing the veggies and chopping them later.
- In a kadai, heat 2 tbsp oil. Add the crushed ginger and garlic. Saute these till the raw smell disappears.
- Now add the chopped tomatoes. Saute the tomatoes till they become soft.
- Pound the coriander seeds and red chilies to a roughly fine powder.
- After 8-10 minutes, add the spice powder to the tomatoes.
- Saute the tomatoes till the whole mixture becomes like a paste and starts to leave oil.
- Now add the capsicum julienne and chopped green chilies. And saute the capsicum for some 8-10 minutes.
- add salt and garam masala powder. Mix these with the rest of the masala.
- It’s time to add the paneer. Cook the paneer for 2 to 3 minutes in the masala.
- Lastly, add kasuri methi, ginger julienne, and coriander leaves. Mix and saute for 2-3 minutes.
- serve the kadai paneer, hot with rotis or naans.
source: www.vegrecipesofindia.com
