Paneer is a fresh cheese common in South Asia, especially in Indian cuisines. It is an unaged, acid-set, non-melting farmer cheese or curd cheese made by curdling heated milk with lemon juice, vinegar, or any other food acids. It’s crumbly and moist form is called chhena in eastern India.
Paneer
Ingredients
Instructions
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Put oil in a nonstick pan and add onions. Fry onions till it turns golden brown.
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Add ginger garlic paste and fry for another 2-3 minutes. Now add tomato purée and salt to taste, cover it with a lid for next 5 minutes.
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Meanwhile, make fine cashew paste by adding milk into it.
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Remove the lid from the pan fry the mixture till you see oil being separated for the gravy then add all the spices except garam masala and fry it for another 3-4 minutes.
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Now add red onion cubes, capsicum cubes and cashew paste to the mixture and fry it for another 2-3minutes.
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Now add paneer cubes to the gravy and mix it well.
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Add garam masala and coriander leaves.
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If needed add water to adjust gravy consistency. Let it cook on low flame for few more minutes.