Receta Paneer Butter Masala Recipe / Paneer Makhani Recipe

by Swapna

There are several Paneer Butter

Masala recipes on the net.

• This is how I make it at home. This doesn’t have much cream
• or butter in it and we can reduce or completely omit it when you make this on a
• regular basis. Usually when I make it just for us I never add cream and always
• reduce butter to half; trust me it still tastes great :).... This is a Lakshmi Nair recipe from
• the Magic Oven show..... in her original recipe she adds 1 cup of peas too; since we don’t like
• peas much I avoid adding it.... Also I try to avoid using food colours as much as
• I can, hence my curry is orangish and not
• red :)......
• Paneer Butter Masala Recipe / Paneer Makhani Recipe
• (Source: Lakshmi Nair's Magic Oven)
• Preparation Time- 15 mints
• Paneer – 2 cups, cut into
• 1” cubes
• Onion – 2 medium, sliced
• thin
• Tomato - 2 big, pureed to
• a fine paste in a blender
• Cashew nuts – 25gm (soaked
• in little water)
• Roasted Cumin powder / Jeera
• powder -¼ tsp
• Fenugreek leaves /Kasoori
• methi leaves -1 tsp
• Coriander leaves - ¼ cup, finely chopped
• Red food
• colour – 2 drops (I didn’t use it)
• Heat 1tbsp oil in a non-stick pan and add sliced onion and sauté until

translucent and soft (no need to brown the onions).

Grind the sautéed onions along with soaked cashew nuts to a

fine paste and keep aside.

Heat butter in a pan and add ginger and garlic paste and sauté for 5

minutes. Lower the heat and add chilly powder and stir well. Add pureed tomato

and tomato sauce and sauté well till the mixture becomes thick and oil starts

separates from the masala.

Add ground onion-cashew nut paste, cumin powder, garam masala and

kasoori methi leaves and salt. Add 1 ½ cups of hot water and boil the mixture

for 3 minutes. Add paneer pieces and food colour if using. Reduce the heat and

simmer the mixture for 6-8 minutes or until the gravy is little thick.

Finally

add cream and coriander leaves mix well and turn off the heat.

Serve hot with Indian flatbreads or rice.

Notes:

You can

add 1 cup of cooked green peas along with paneer if you wish.

You can lightly fry paneer pieces before adding it to the gravy.