Paneer is one of favorite ingredients. It just make any dish extra tasty. Be it a restaurant dish or homemade paneer is our family’s favorite. Usually paneer use to be restaurant dish but thanks to upstairs neighbor I got to learn lot of paneer recipes from her. I have tried kadai paneer before but my paneer turns hard after few minutes. I learnt the trick for soft paneer. Soaking the store brought paneer in warm water makes it perfect. Orginally I posted this recipe with tofu but recently updated it with paneer. Same recipe works well for kadai tofu/kadai paneer. My son has become a huge fan for paneer hence recentlybwhen I made kadai paneer I updated the recipe. We had kadai paneer with butter naan. Kadai paneer also tastes yum with variety rice like channa pulav, ghee rice, vegetable rice, sweet corn pulav, peas pulav etc. Check our other tasty paneer + tofu based dishes in TMF, Palak paneer Paneer tikka Masala Paneer tikka Tofu Cutlet Paneer Kofta Malai kofta Paneer butter masala Kadai Paneer: Preparation Time : 10 min | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 2 Recipe Category: Side dish Ingredients: Paneer - 150 grams Green Bell Pepper - 1 medium size, diced Big Onion-1/2 diced coriander powder - 1 tsp cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp kashmiri Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp Tomatoes - 2 finely chopped Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp Garam masala - 1/4 tsp kitchen king masala - 1/2 tsp Ghee - 6 grams Dried methi leaves - few Salt as needed Fennel seed - 1/2 tsp Method:
Soak paneer in hot water for atleast 30 minutes
Drain the water. Add turmeric powder to the paneer and mix well
Add 2 grams of ghee and sauté onion and capsicum with little salt for 2/3 minutes
Switch off and transfer into a plate In the same pan add remaining ghee and add fennel seeds and after it splutter add ginger garlic paste and sauté for 2 minutes Add tomatoes and little salt; sauté After the tomatoes is almost cooked (3/4th mushy)
Add coriander powder, cumin powder, kitchen king masala, garam masala and kashmiri chili powder and salt; sauté for 3/4 minutes till the tomatoes turns mushy and the raw masala smell goes off
Add paneer, capsicum, onion, water and salt if needed. Cover and cook for 2-3 minutes
Open the lid and cook till the excess liquid evaporates. Add dried methi leaves and mix well. Switch off
Instead of using store brought masala powder. Masala can be made in home, Dry roast coriander seeds, fennel seeds and red chilli till the aroma comes. Blend into coarse powder
