HOW TO MAKE KHADAI PAANER

 Being a vegetarian, the only rich side dish for rotis or Naans are paneer gravies.. Of all the curries, I like kadai paneer the most.. Saw various styles of kadai paneer recipes on the net and finally gave little changes as per my taste and voila!! yummy restaurant style kadai paneer is ready...

How to make khadai paaner.....

How to make Kadai Paneer

1. Dry roast red chilli and Coriander seeds until aromatic, switch off flame and coarsely grind it in mixer.
2. Soak Cashews in water for 10 mins and grind it into a smooth paste. (If you’re going to use Cashews do this step, else skip it)
3. Grind one big onion and make a paste, keep aside.
4. Grind the tomatoes into smooth paste and keep aside.
5. Cut the remainingg big onion, paneer and capsicum into cubes and keep aside.
6. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and fry the paneer cubes until light golden in color, remove from pan and keep aside.
7. In the same pan add another tbsp of oil and fry the onion and capsicum which we have cut into cubes for 5 mins and remove from pan. This gives nice crunch to the veggies in the curry.
8. Add the remaining tbsp of oil. Add onion paste and ginger garlic paste and saute for a minute until raw smell disappears.
9. Now add the coarsely ground red chilli and coriander powder and saute for a minute.
10. Add tomato puree to the pan and let cook.
11. Add little water, chilli powder salt, garam masala and cashew paste. Mix well until the cashew paste raw smell goes.
12. Reduce the flame to low and add cream. Mix well until a thick curry is formed. – Now add the Paneer, onion and capsicum on the gravy and let it boil in gravy for 5 mins, until the veggies and paneer coat well with gravy. (can add water too)
13. Add kasuri methi and give it a nice mix, add Coriander leaves in the end and switch off. Serve hot.

Shahi paneer is a preparation of paneer . cottage cheese in a thick gravy made up of cream, tomatoes and spices from the Indian subcontinent. It is mainly eaten with roti, naan, a rice, other breads now it is ready to serve .