Kadai Paneer (Restaurant Style)

It’s a popular restaurant style kadai paneer. This is very easy to prepare. For this dish, I have roasted all the ingredients in kadai and made fresh ground powder. 

My son loves paneer a lot. Finally I’m very happy he enjoyed and had nicely.

 This goes well with roti, naan, chapatti, fried rice, idli, dosa…

Ingredients

Cubed Paneer – 2 cups

Cubed Onions – 1 cup

Cubed Capsicum – 1 cup

Tomato Puree – 2 (big)

Chilli Powder – 1 tsp

Chopped Coriander Leaves – few

Butter – 5 tsp

(For Masala)

Coriander Seeds – 2 tsp

Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp

Fennel Seeds – 1 tsp

Peppercorn – 1 tsp

Dry Red Chilli – 6

Dry Methi Leaves – ½ tsp

(For Paste)

Coconut – ¼ cup

Soaked Cashew – 5 tsp

Method

In a pan, heat 1 tsp of butter and add cubed paneer with little salt and sauté it for 2 to 3 minute. And keep it aside.

Heat a kadadi, add the ingredients which are under for ground masala. Dry roast it on low flame. Make sure it should not get burnt. Then let it cool for few minutes. Then grind it as a coarse powder and take half amount in a small bowl. Then make it the remaining part as fine powder. Then keep it aside.

Heat butter in a kadai, add fine powder of ground masala and sauté it for few seconds.

Now add cubed onions, capsicum and fry well for another 2 to three minutes on low flame.

Now add tomato puree and cook well until the raw smell of tomato goes well.

Then add the sautéed paneer into this gravy. Sprinkle some water and close the lid and keep cook on low flame.

In a blender add grated coconut and soaked cashew nuts. Then make it as a fine paste.

Add this ground paste to paneer curry. Let it be for another few minutes.

Switch off the flame and garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

Yummy kadai paneer is ready to serve!!!