Paneer Masala recipe
Paneer Masala is a Dhaba-style recipe featuring aromatic paneer gravy, where paneer is marinated in basic spices and simmered in a semi-thick onion-tomato-based sauce.
Ingredients
For marination
- Paneer 200gm
- Gram flour 1 tblsp
- Red chilli powder 1 tsp
- Salt as needed
- Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
- Lemon juice 1 tsp
- Water 3 tblsp
- Ginger garlic paste 1 tsp
Other Ingredients
- Oil 2 tblsp
- Ghee 2 tsp
- Onion 2
- Tomato 2
- Capsicum 1/2
- Red chili powder 1 tsp
- Cumin powder 1/2 tsp
- Chaat masala 3/4 tsp
- Garam masala 1 tsp
- Kasoori Methi 1 tsp
- Salt as needed
- Cumin seeds 1 tsp
- Water 1/2 cup
- Green chili 1
- Coriander leaves few
Instructions
- Cut the paneer into cubes.
- Let’s marinate the paneer cubes.
- In a wide bowl add the paneer cubes, ginger garlic paste, gram flour(besan), red chili powder, salt, lemon juice and water.
- Mix well and let the ingredients coat nicely on the paneer. Add the marinated paneer and cook till the paneer becomes golden brown.
- Keep it aside for 10 minutes.
- If you are comfortable in deep frying, go ahead and deep fry.
- In a non stick pan, add 2 tblsp oil and 2 tsp ghee.
- Add the marinated paneer and cook till the paneer becomes golden brown.
- Keep it aside.
- Finely chop the onions and puree the tomato.
- Cut the capsicum into cubes and slit the green chili.
- In the same pan add the remaining 2 tblsp oil and 2 tsp ghee.
- Add the cumin seeds and slit green chili.
- Add the finely chopped onions to the pan.
- Cook till the onions become translucent.
- Add the capsicum cubes to this.
- Cook for a minute.
- Add in the tomato puree to this.
- Mix well.
- Add the red chili powder, cumin powder, garam masala, kasoori methi and chaat masala to this.
- Add salt to taste.
- Mix well and let this cook in low flame for 2 minutes.
- Add 1/2 cup of water to this.
- Let this cook till the raw smell of the masala goes off.
- The water must be evaporated by this time.
- Add in the paneer cubes, which we have kept aside.
- Mix well and add 1/2 cup of water.
- As the paneer cubes are marinated in gram flour, the gravy will thicken in 2 minutes.
- Switch off the flame.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
- Serve hot with rotis or kulcha or naan.
- This paneer masala goes well with peas pulao too.
- Heat a piece of charcoal and place it in a steel bowl.
- Place that inside the pan and add a drop of ghee on the charcoal and immediately cover the pan.
- Leave it for a minute.
- Let the smoke get infused into the curry.
- Mix well and serve.
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