Paneer Gravy with fried paneer/ Home style/ mildly spiced/ Easy and delicious recepie

PANEER GRAVY WITH FRIED PANEER

Preparation time	40 mins
cooking time	40 mins
Total time	1 hour 30 mins

This Home Style Paneer gravy recipe is made with fried Paneer cubes and mildly spiced curry.  It uses freshly pound kadai masala made with whole spices.The recipe is simple and very easy to make for young beginners. 

AUTHOR- AHARIKA

CUISINE- NORTH INDIAN

SERVINGS- 4

 

INGREDIENTS:

 Oil - 6 to 7 tbs 

Onion - 5 (medium sized)

Tomato- 4 (red and ripe)                            

Cardamom- 4

Cinnamon- 1 inch

Cloves- 3 

Paneer- 200 grms 

Cashews- 6

salt- As required

Chilli Powder- 2 tbs

Garlic and Ginger Paste- 2 tbs

Corriander powder- 1 tbs

Garam Masala - half tbs (optional)

Corriander leaves- one hand full

Ingredients

To be grinned:

• Soak cashews in water for half an hour, and the make it into a fine paste and keep aside.
• Cut onions into thin slices, take a pan, add 2 tbs oil, add Cardamom,Cinnamon, cloves and sliced onion into the pan. Saute it till the onion turns golden brown. Turn off the stove once it turns brown and let it cook for  sometime and then grind it to a paste in a mixie jar and keep aside.
• Take a bowl, add 500 ml of water to it. Add full tomatoes into the water bowl and boil the tomatoes until the outer skin peels out and the tomato turns soft. Once the tomatoes turns soft, turn of the stove. Let it cool for sometime and then make a fine paste of boiled tomato's and keep aside.

  

  Pre- Preparations

Preparation:

First take a pan and heat oil. Then fry the paneer cubes till it turns slight red and keep aside.

• Then once again take the pan, pour  oil (You can use the same oil that you used for paneer fry) and  then add onion paste.
• Saute the onion till it turns brown and then add garlic-ginger paste in a medium flame for 2 mins.
• Add tomato paste and cashew paste and saute it for 2-3 mins in medium flame.
• Add Chilli powder, Coriander powder and salt as mentioned above and saute it till it becomes like a paste and starts to leave oil.
• Now, add the fried paneer cubes and corriander leaves and saute it well
• Finally  close the pan for 5 mins. so that the paneer gets cooked with masala and the gravy is enriched with the flavour of corriander leaves. 
• Turn off the stove, and serve hot with roti, naan or ghee rice.