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Kadhai Paneer
November 30th, 2008 filed under Paneer (Indian Cheese)
Kadhi Paneer is a great main dish for any special occasion. Paneer and colorful bell peppers are sauteed in spicy tomato gravy.
Recipe serves 4.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 pound paneer
- 1 medium red bell pepper (shimla mirch, capsicum)
- 1 medium green bell pepper (shimla mirch, capsicum)
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 3 medium tomatoes
- About 1/4 inch piece of ginger
- 1 green chili
- Pinch of asafetida (hing)
- 1 teaspoon cumin seed (jeera)
- 1 and 1/2 tablespoons coriander powder (dhania)
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric (haldi)
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped fenugreek leaves (methi) or dry fenugreek leaves (kastoori methi)
- 3/4 teaspoon salt, adjust to taste
Method:
- Cut paneer and bell peppers into ½ inch cubes.
- Blend the tomatoes, ginger, and green chili to make a puree.
- Heat the oil in frying pan on medium heat and stir fry paneer for about 2 minutes – take them out before paneer starts changing color.
- Next stir-fry bell pepper until they are tender. Do not over cook the bell pepper. Take them out and drain on a paper towel.
- Using the same frying pan, Test the oil by adding one cumin seed to the oil; if seed cracks right away oil is ready.
- Add the asafetida and cumin seeds.
- After the cumin seeds crack, add the tomato puree, coriander powder, turmeric, fenugreek leaves and cayenne pepper.
- Cook for about 4 minutes on medium heat.
- Tomato mixture will reduce to about half in volume.
- Add about 2 spoons of water, and the salt.
- Wait till gravy comes to boil add paneer and bell pepper and let it simmer for about five minutes on low medium heat.
- Now it is ready to serve.
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I’m so glad you have these videos. I am so tired of the same old italian/french cuisine on all the cooking shows these days.
I was afraid i would have to move to india in order to learn how to make decent food. Thank you, and keep the videos coming.
Hi manjula aunt,
I m from Kathamndu, Nepal and tried your kadai paneer receipe during my family gettogether recently, it was superb and all the credit goed to u
Thanks,
Girish
Manjula auntie,
I made this dish today as we had a couple of friends for dinner. It turned out excellent. We all loved it. Thank you for such a simple, yet great-tasting recipe. Love the simplicity of your cooking.
Gayathri
Hi Manjula Auntie, i tried to make this Kadhai Paneer today, i hope it turns out to be good. I love the way you cook and you make it look so easy. God bless you.
Thanks
Amandeep
hello aunty…
hope u r doing well….
i made kadai paneer it turned out delicious…
thanks for sharing it…it was easy to prepare after following ur instructions….
Hi Manjula auntie,
I tried 4 of your recipes recently and all turned out good and very simple to do and no time consuming.
I am recently married and my husband always expect me to cook someting new……i never learnt before nor find cooking interesting job……..but your recipes made it so easy for me and i find cooking quite interesting now…
Please keep on posting new recipes….
Today i am going to try this kadhai paneer.
Thanks alot
Namita
Hi Manjula auntie,
I made this dish 3 days ago, it tured out good and very simple to do and no time consuming.
I made 2-3 dishes beefore this, all those tured out excellent.
I tell all the time ” my manjula auntie”
In my home they call me Junior Manjula.
Amazing dish, I simply loved it and so did my family. Second time when I made, I added some peas, corns and carrot along with bell peppers. It turned out well too.
Thank you for your valuable guidance. It has made cooking easy for people like me who are tired to cook after a long day of work.
This looks fantastic. Thanks for posting the recipe and the video.
Hi Manjula ji,
My favourite dish !!
Instead of paneer i added potatoes n it came out well
Thanks a loooooootttt for the recipes
Regards,
Divya