kadai paneer Restaurant type Home made recepie

Kadai Panner (Indian cottage chese )

The name has it all. I can bet most of the time when we visit a restaurant or we are cooking daily or a special occasions  we always have a paneer dish. 

Kadai paneer is one of them. My fav is kadi panner with butter naan. Let me share with you a home cooking style to make the magical kadai paneer taste like resturant with amazing flavour.

To start with we need following ingredients. 

Required ingredients onion tomato capsicum green chilli

1.   2 cups paneer, cubed
2. Half a capsicum / green bell pepper, cubed
3. 1 large onion
4. 2 green chillies
5. 3-4 pods of garlic, crushed
6. 1" piece of ginger, crushed (or 1tsp ginger garlic paste)
7. 1 tomato, pureed
8. 1 tbsp tomato paste (or another pureed tomato)
9. A generous pinch of kasuri methi / dried fenugreek leaves
10. 1 tsp red chilli powder
11. A pinch of turmeric powder
12. 1/2 tsp jeera / cumin seeds
13. 1 tsp coriander powder / dhania powder / malli podi (I add a little more than this)
14. 2 tsp oil
15. Salt to taste

Chopped coriander leaves to garnish

Method

1. Grind the onion along with the green chillies. Heat oil and fry this paste for 2-3 mins.

2. Then add the chilli powder, turmeric, jeera, coriander powder and crushed ginger and garlic (or ginger garlic paste) and mix well, frying for another minute.

3. To this, add the tomato paste and pureed tomato. Fry for 4-5 minutes until the mixture comes together and the oil begins to separate.

5. Next add the capsicum and kasoori methi, with some salt. Fry for 2-3 mins, until the bell pepper is cooked but still crunchy.

7. Finally add the cubed paneer and mix gently until well combined. Simmer for 2 mins and remove from fire.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with your favorite bread- Naan,roti,chapati or rice

Kadai Panner