“Kadhai Paneer-Dhaba Style”

“Kadhai Paneer-Dhaba Style” Recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Lunch/Dinner
Prep Time: 40 mins    | Cook time: 50 mins     | Serves: 2-3

 Milk is one of most useful and in-demand ingredient of every kitchen… If you have sufficient milk in your kitchen then use it to make either paneer, dahi etc etc..with paneer you can either prepare sweet dish or use it to make any spicy gravy recipe or make paneer pakora’s etc etc…you can easily get paneer from market but homemade one is best due to its freshness, taste and better quality. Using fresh paneer for gravy like that for kadhai paneer is too delicious. Here I give you recipe to make homemade paneer as well as kadhai paneer with lots of spicy masala ingredients...so let's have a look.

 Ingredients:

2 onions (chopped)

2-3 tomato (chopped)

2 baby onion

4-5 pieces of capsicum

1 teaspoon cumin seeds

1 teaspoon ginger garlic green chili paste

1/2 Cinnamon stick
1 teaspoon oil

3 teaspoon butter
1 star anise
1 tejpatta

Pinch of food color

Turmeric powder
1 cup milk and cream
Salt as per your taste

½ cup Water

Masalas to grind Ingredients:

1 teaspoon coriander seeds

2 black cloves

2 red chili

1 black cardamom

½ cinnamon stick

1 teaspoon fennel seed

1 teaspoon kasoori methi

2 green cardamom

4-5 black paper

Kitchen utensils required:

• 2 non-stick pan (I prefer: Vinod Zest Non- Stick Friendly Pan)

• 2 Spatula (I prefer: PINDIA Wooden Curved Spoons)
• 18 bowls (I prefer: Borosil Mixing Bowl)
• 1 Mixer-grinder( I prefer: Prestige Hero 550- Watt Mixer Grinder)
• 1 Chopper (I prefer: Genius Nicer Dicer Plus Multi Chopper Vegetable Cutter Fruit slicer)

• 1 Water jug

                     

                                          Step by step procedure:

To make paneer at home:

 Step-1 Take deep fry pan. Heat deep fry pan and add milk. Let it boil on high flame, when milk is boiled then switch the flame to low. Now add lemon juice into milk very slowly and stir it continuously until whey water fully separates. Here you will get curdle milk.

Step-2 Take muslin cloth or dupatta and pour curdle milk into it and wash it with cold water to get soft paneer for making kadhai paneer . Now hang it for 30 minutes so that excess water is removed.

Step-3 Now take out paneer in a bowl and keep it in a freeze for at least 1 hour so that it is completely set to cut into pieces.

 To make gravy

Step-1 Heat nonstick deep fry pan, add oil, butter, cumin seeds, cinnamon stick, star anise, tejpatta.

Step-2 Now add chopped onion and fry it.

Step-3 Add ginger garlic green chili paste in it and fry it for 1 minute.

Step-4 Take deep fry pan, heat it (don’t add oil). Now add all the masala ingredients listed above and fry it for at least 1-2 minutes on low flame until aroma of masalas are out.

Step-5 When done, prepare coarsely grind powder of fried masala using grinder.

Step-6 Now add all masala powder into the pan done in step-3. Also add chopped tomato’s, baby onions cells, few capsicums pieces into the pan. Add pinch of food color, turmeric powder and salt. Mix everything very well. Cover the pan with lid and cook it for 4-5 minutes at low flame until oil comes on top of masala’s.

Step-7 When masala is cooked well then at low flame add ½ cup water (very less) and let it cook for 2 minutes on medium flame.

Step-8 Add paneer and let it cook for 2 minutes on high flame.

Step-9 Now add milk and cream slowly with continuous stir into the pan. Mix everything very well.

Step-10 Add 1 small cube of butter to give it great taste.

When done, garnish it with coriander leave and grated paneer.

Enjoy it with paratha or naan or with pulav.

                               

Tips:

• Add very less amount of water for making thick gravy and great taste.
• Cook masala very well.
• Always add milk and cream on low flame and slowly with continuous stir otherwise milk will curdle.  

     

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