Paneer butter masala / Paneer Makhani recipe
Let’s see how to make Paneer butter masala.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 20 mins
- Serves: 2
Ingredients needed:
- Paneer cubes – 1 cup
- Onion – 1 large
- Tomato – 1 large
- Cashew nuts – 5-8
- Milk or water – 3/4 cup
- Kasoori methi – 1 tsp
- Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
- Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
- Coriander powder or sambar powder – 1 tsp
- Turmeric – 1/2 tsp
- Salt – As needed
- Butter/oil – 2 tbsp
To Temper:
- Oil – 2 tsp
- Elachi / Cardamom -1
- Clove – 2
- Cinnamon – 1 small piece
Preparations:
- Heat a pan and fry cubed onions until golden in a tsp of butter. Grind it along with cubed tomatoes to a smooth paste.
- Grind cashews with little milk or water to a smooth paste and set aside
- keep the paneer cubes immersed in hot water.
Method:
- Heat oil and temper with elachi, cinnamon and cloves. Add the ground onion tomato paste and give it a stir. Add red chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric and ginger garlic paste. Mix well.
- Continue frying for 5 minutes in medium flame or until the raw smell goes off. The onion tomato mixture should get thick. Add the kasoori methi by crushing it in between your palms.
- Add the ground cashew paste and mix well. Fry for another 2 minutes. Add oil if needed. When it becomes shiny, add required milk or water slowly while you stir. Add salt.
- When your desired consistency reaches, add paneer drained from water and (the cooking cream – optional).
- Do not boil the gravy. Just mix in low flame for 2 minutes and switch off the flame.
Garnish with coriander leaves finely chopped.
Serve hot with roti/ naan or any flat breads or mild pulavs.
Notes:
- You can add milk fully to make it gravy without adding any water. So it will get thicker and more creamier gravy.
- The colour of the gravy mainly is because of adding milk. If you add water, then the gravy may not be orange and will be more red.
- Cashews give a thick texture, mild coloured gravy and also prevents milk/ cream from curding.
- You can ignore red chilli powder and add 5 green chillies while you fry onion. This also tastes great.
- If you dont have ginger garlic paste, then you can add 4 cloves of garlic and a piece of ginger while you fry onion and grind it.
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