Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Paneer Receipes

Paneer Butter Masala:


Ingredients

  • paneer (fried and soaked in water) - 100 gms

  • tomatoes- 250 gms

  • ginger - 10 gms

  • garlic - 10 gms

  • red chilli powder -1 tsp

  • coriander powder - 5 gms

  • onions - 15 gms

  • butter 10 - gms

  • kasoori methi - 1/2tsp

  • garam masala - ¼ tsp

  • cream - ½ tsp

  • chopped coriander - ½ tsp

  • sugar - a pinch

  • Method
    1. Blanch the tomatoes. De-skin.
    2. Make a coarse paste of tomatoes.
    3. in a kadai, heat oil and add cumin, chopped onion.
    4. Fry for a while. Add ginger-garlic paste.
    5. Add chilli powder and coriander powder.
    6. Cook for a minute. Then add pureed tomatoes and cook well.
    7. Finish by adding fried paneer and kasoori methi.
    8. Take out in a bowl and garnish with garam masala powder and chopped coriander.
    9. Finish by adding the garam masala powder, kasoori methi and chopped coriander.



    Chilli Cheese:



    Ingredients
  • paneer - 1\2 kg (sqaure or finger cut)

  • For Paste:
  • maida - 1 tbsp

  • cornflour - 1 tbsp

  • soya sauce - 1 tbsp

  • ajinomoto - 3\4 tbsp

  • salt and black pepper

  • little water


  • For Masala:
    butter or oil - 1 tbsp
    green chillies - 6 to 7 (cut length wise)
    capsicum - 2 (cut length wise)
    onion - 2 or 3(cut length wise)
    ajinomoto - 1\2 tbsp
    soya sauce - 1 tbsp
    tomato sauce - 2 tbsp
    water - 1\2 cup
    tomato color - 1 pinch
    black pepper
    salt to taste

    Method
    For Paste: 1. Mix all these things and make a thick paste.
    2. Put paneer pieces in it and mix it and fry like pakoras.

    For Masala:
    1. Heat butter in a karai and saute green chillies for a minute.
    2. Now add all above ingredients and saute for a minute.
    3. Now add paneer pieces and mix


    Palak Paneer:


    Ingredients
  • 2 - fresh palak bunches

  • 5 - garlic flakes

  • 1 inch - ginger piece

  • 1 cup - boiled milk

  • 250 gms - paneer

  • 2 to 3 - medium sized onions

  • 2 - green chilies

  • 2 tbsp - olive oil

  • salt to taste


  • For Paneer:
    1. Cut about 250 gms of paneer into cubes.
    2. Heat oil at medium temperature and then fry the paneer pieces.
    3. Once fried, add them into milk.
    4. Milk helps to keep them soft.

    For Palak:
    1. Chop the cleanly washed palak, along with leaves.
    2. Stem can be added only if they are tender.
    3. Add the chopped palak and a small piece of ginger into the boiling milk (1 cup).
    4. Let it boil till the palak becomes very soft.
    5. Remove milk and keep palak aside to cool.
    6. The significance of using milk is to remove the typical raw smell of palak that usually exists even after cooking whereas ginger adds extra flavour to it.
    7. Cut 2 of medium sized onions and green chilies into thin long pieces.
    8. Fry onion, chilies in little oil till onion turns golden brown in colour.
    9. It is very important to add onions proportionately as excess of onion may result in loss of palak colour (usually palak looks black instead of green)
    10. Add fried onions and chilies along with palak, 5 garlic flakes and ginger into the blender. Blend well till it becomes a fine soft paste.
    11. Fry the finely chopped onion in rest of the oil till its colour changes to golden brown.
    12. Add the palak paste to this and add salt to taste.
    13. Addition of salt while cooking results in the oil to float at the top at a faster rate.
    14. Floating of oil indicates that the palak is sufficiently cooked.
    15. Add the paneer pieces in the palak.
    16. Let it cook for another 5 mins.
    The dish is ready to serve.


    Paneer Makhan Wala:



    Ingredients
    paneer - 100 gms
    onion - 100 gms
    tomato - 100 gms
    oil - 1/4 cup
    cashew / kuskus paste - 80 gms
    milk - 1 cup
    chilly pdr - 1 tb spn
    dhaniyapdr - 1 tb spn
    turmeric pdr - 1/2 tsp
    tomato sauce - 2 tb spn
    ginger paste - 1 tsp
    garlic paste - 1 tsp
    butter - 1 tb spn
    jeera - 1 tsp
    kasuri methi - 1 tb spn
    pudina chopped - 1 tsp
    coriander chopped - 1tb spn

    Method
    1. Chop onion and tomato finely.
    2. Fry paneer and keep aside (optional).
    3. Pour oil in a kadai, season jeera ,kasuri methi, chopped pudina and chopped onion.
    4. Fry till golden brown, add tomatoes and saute till it becomes pulpy.
    5. Then add ginger, garlic paste and stir for few secs.
    6. Then add all powders and when oil shows separate, add milk and tomato sauce.
    7. Add salt. When the gravy thickens, add paneer.
    8. Allow it to boil for few secs. Garnish with coriander leaves.
    9. Serve hot with any type of Indian bread.