Kadai Paneer Stir Fried Cottage Cheese Food

KADAI PANEER (STIR FRIED COTTAGE CHEESE)

Steps:

• Heat oil in a kadai, add broken red chillies, cloves, crushed coriander seeds and onions and sauté for two minutes. Add cinnamon and bay leaves and stir. Add garlic paste, ginger paste and red chilli powder and stir. Continue to sauté for two minutes. Add tomatoes and salt and sauté till the tomatoes become soft. Add paneer and stir gently. Cook on low heat till the paneer is heated through. Garnish with coriander leaves, toss and serve.

KADAI PANEER (COTTAGE CHEESE ON THE WOK!)

Steps:

• To begin with, cut the paneer into equal-sized thin lengthwise pieces.
• Next, peel and chop the onions.
• Grind them to a fine paste.
• Cut the ginger into juliennes (long-thin strips).
• Heat ghee or oil in a wok.
• Add the cumin seeds.
• Allow to sizzle briefly.
• Add the finely cut capsicum pieces.
• Fry for 2 minutes.
• Add the onion paste.
• Stir-fry for 3 minutes.
• Add the garlic paste and stir-fry again for another 3-4 minutes.
• Add the ginger pieces, tomato paste, chilli powder, turmeric powder and corriander powder.
• Fry till the ghee or oil comes out.
• Add salt.
• Mix, add in the paneer pieces.
• Keep mixing till the panner pieces are coated with the masala (gravy mixture).
• Add a cup of water.
• Stir in.
• Garnish with finely chopped corriander leaves.
• Serve hot with rice or Indian flatbreads.

KADAI PANEER

Steps:

• For kadai sauce:.
• Put the red chilies, coriander seeds in a blender and blend for 20 secs until you have a coarse powder.
• In a frying pan add 3 tbsp of vegetable oil and fry the coarse powder in low heat,to this add 6 cloves of finely chopped garlic.Fry until golden brown.
• Add chopped onion and tomatoes chili powder ,turmeric powder, fenugreek powder,salt fry for 15 minutes with lid closed until the mixture is cooked.
• For paneer:.
• In a pan add 1/2 tsp vegetable oil,after the oil is hot add 1,2 tsp coriander seeds.
• When the coriander seeds crackle and pop add cubed paneer fry for about 2 minutes until paneer is golden.
• Now add cubed green peppers stir for about a minute.
• Now add this paneer green pepper mixture to kadai sauce and stir them until each paneer cube is coated with the sauce.
• Remove from the heat and add chopped cilantro.