Kadai Paneer Recipe
Restaurant style Kadai Paneer recipe prepared with paneer, capsicum and Indian spices.
Servings: 4 PEOPLE
Ingredients
- 2 cups Homemade Cubed Paneer (Appx. 150 Grams)
- 1.5 cup Cubed Capsicum (1 small Red and 1 small Green Capsicum)
- 1.5 cup Cubed Onions
- 1 teaspoon Garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon Ginger paste
- 2 tablespoon Homemade tomato puree (1 small tomato chopped)
- 1 tablespoon Cream (optional)
- 3-4 nos. Whole red Chilies
- 1/2- 3/4 teaspoon Coarsely pounded coriander seeds (adjust according to taste)
- 1/2- 3/4 teaspoon Red Chili Flakes (adjust according to taste)
- 1/4 teaspoon Haldi
- 1/2 teaspoon Cumin seeds
- 1.5 - 2 tablespoon Kastoori Methi
- Salt to taste
- 2-3 tablespoon Oil
- 1 tablespoon Chopped cilantro leaves - to garnish
Instructions
- Assemble: all the ingredients - cubed onions, tomato puree and cubed paneer.
- Wash and cut capsicum in cubes.
- Secret ingredient in this recipe - Kastoori Methi.
- Assemble: all the spices. Using a mortar and pestle coarsely pound the whole coriander seeds.
- Heat oil in a kadai, add whole chilies, cumin seeds and cubed capsicum.
- Stir in salt and mix it well. On a medium flame saute capsicum for 2 minutes. Add cubed onions, ginger and garlic paste and saute it for another 2 minutes.
- Add tomato puree and mix. Stir in all of the remaining spices one by one.
- Add 2 tablespoon cream to the veggies and give it a good stir.
- Add paneer to veggies and mix them gently.
- Kadai Paneer is ready.
- Garnish with thinly sliced ginger and chopped cilantro leaves.
- Serve it hot with roti.
