Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, malai paneer. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Malai Paneer is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Malai Paneer is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine 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 recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have malai paneer using 25 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Malai Paneer:
- Get 200 gm paneer
- Prepare 1 big onion
- Make ready 4 large tomatoes
- Take 10-15 cashew
- Take 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- Make ready 6-7 garlic
- Prepare 1 small piece ginger
- Make ready 2 green chillies
- Prepare 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Take 2 green cardamom
- Make ready 5-6 black peppercorns
- Get 3 cloves
- Make ready 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon Kashmiri red chilli powder
- Take 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- Take 2 teaspoon kitchen King masala
- Take 1 teaspoon sugar
- Take to taste Salt
- Take 1 tablespoon tomato sauce
- Get 2 tablespoon oil
- Make ready 1 tablespoon butter
- Take 2 tablespoon milk cream
- Get 1 teaspoon kasuri methi
- Prepare 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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