PANEER BUTTER MASALA

Hi readers, I am back with another interesting recipe "Paneer - Butter Masala",which goes well with rotis,phulkas,chapathis,parothas and fried rice. "Paneer Butter Masala", is one of the most popular North Indian recipe. Once you taste this Paneer Butter Masala, I'm sure it will become your all time favourite.It's highly rich in taste,creamy and nutritious because of the ingredients that we used in making this curry. I used Butter,Cashew nuts, Paneer, Poppy seeds, Milk, Fresh Cream to improvise the taste of this curry. Let us go through the recipe...

Ingredients :
200 gm Paneer
1 1/2 table spoon Butter
2 table spoons Oil
3 medium sized Tomatoes, finely chopped
1 medium sized Onion, finely chopped
2 green chilly
2-3 garlic cloves
1 big piece Ginger
20 no. Kaju /Cashewnuts
2 table spoon Poppy seeds
1/3 cup milk
3 table spoons fresh cream
1 table spoon cumin seeds
3 table spoon chilly powder
2 table spoon sugar
3 table spoon Kasuri methi leaves
2 green cardamom
5-6 pepper corns
3 cloves
Salt to taste

Procedure :

•  First soak Cashew nuts and Poppy seeds in a cup of milk for 20- 30 minuites.
• Finely chop Onion and tomatoes and keep aside
• Cut Paneer into cubes and keep aside
• Take ginger and garlic in required quantity and make a paste, keep aside.
• Heat a pan, add oil, once oil is hot, add finely chopped Onion pieces and stir fry till the onions turn pink colour.
• Now add ginger-garlic paste, cumin seeds, pepper corns,cloves,green cardamom and green chillies and saute them for 10-15 minuites on low flame. Nice aroma comes out at this moment.
•  Strain cashew nuts and poppy seeds from the milk, add to the above ingredients, fry for one or two minuites.
• Add finely chopped tomatoes and saute them on low flame for  5 minuites. Cook till tomatoes become soft. Add dry red chilli powder, salt and sugar, mix all ingredients well.Switchoff the flame. Let it cool down for few minuites.
•  Once it is cooled, transfer the cooked mixer to mixie jar, fresh  cream and milk(in which cashew and poppy seeds were soaked)grind it into a fine smooth paste.
•  Heat a nonstick pan with oil, add paneer cubes and fry till golden colour, strain paneer cubes from oil and place on kitchen towel.
• To the same pan, add finely ground paste and cook for 2 minutes on high flame, add water and mix well.
• . Add fried paneer cubes, fresh Cashew nuts (broken), kasuri methi leaves, cook on medium flame till the gravy thickens. Switch off the flame and transfer to serving bowl.
•  Finally garnish it with kasuri methi leaves,cashew nut pieces and fresh cream. 

    Delicious,creamy, super tempting dish " Paneer Butter Masala" is ready!! Have it hot along with rotis, naans, chapathis or parathas.