Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, malai paneer. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Malai Paneer is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Malai Paneer is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Malai Paneer, as the name suggests, it's a paneer curry prepared in a fresh milk cream based rich and spicy gravy where almond and cashew nut paste brings in rich texture while dried fenugreek leaves bring a subtle but definite flavor. Sometimes, the paneer comes in a packaged version where it is pre-cut into small cubes. Similarly to tofu, there are also versions where you'll have to do the cutting yourself.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have malai paneer using 25 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Malai Paneer:
- Take 200 gm paneer
- Make ready 1 big onion
- Prepare 4 large tomatoes
- Get 10-15 cashew
- Get 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- Prepare 6-7 garlic
- Take 1 small piece ginger
- Make ready 2 green chillies
- Get 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Get 2 green cardamom
- Make ready 5-6 black peppercorns
- Prepare 3 cloves
- Make ready 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- Take 1 teaspoon Kashmiri red chilli powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Get 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- Prepare 2 teaspoon kitchen King masala
- Get 1 teaspoon sugar
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Get 1 tablespoon tomato sauce
- Make ready 2 tablespoon oil
- Make ready 1 tablespoon butter
- Get 2 tablespoon milk cream
- Make ready 1 teaspoon kasuri methi
- Make ready 1 cup water
This Malai paneer is a perfect gravy for potlucks, parties and family nights. Paneer or cottage cheese, is cooked in creamy. Malai Paneer Recipe - Creamy Malai Paneer Gravy Recipe in Step wise pictures. This is a delicious curry to make and taste yummy with chapati or poori or bhaturas.
Instructions to make Malai Paneer:
- Cut paneer in square cubes and keep aside, slice onion, tomatoes and keep aside
- In a kadai heat 1 tablespoon oil add cumin seeds, cardamom, black pepper, cloves, green chillies
- Once the aroma comes add sliced onions and fry till they are nicely cooked now add chopped ginger and garlic and fry till raw smell goes
- Add cashews and poppy seeds and fry now add chopped tomatoes and some salt.
- Cover and cook till tomatoes are mushy switch off the flame.
- Allow the mixture to cool down, now blend the mixture adding little water
- Once it's blended nicely keep aside.
- In a kadai add 1 tablespoon oil and butter, add kashmiri red chilli powder, lower the flame and add the blended mixture.
- Mix nicely, allow it to cook for 3-4 minutes, now add all the dry masalas, and mix properly
- Allow to cook for some more time till oil separates from sides add tomato sauce and sugar.
- Add half the cream and mix nicely.
- Now add water depending on the consistency you prefer, once it's slightly boil add paneer cubes, keep 2-3 cubes aside
- Cover and cook for 5 minutes.
- Once done crush and add kasuri methi, grate the remaining paneer pieces and mix, now add remaining cream and garnish with coriander leaves.
- Serve it with butter naan, chapati or any bread of your choice.
Its been a while since i shared any paneer recipes, so i decided to make this curry and share it with you all. Methi=fenugreek leaves, Malai=heavy cream, Paneer=Indian cottage cheese. If you put all these together, it means creamy, mild to medium spicy gravy with fenugreek leaves and paneer. If you are not familiar, fenugreek leaves have a bitter taste. Every bunch of leaves has a different level of bitterness.
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