Kadai Paneer

Kadai panner is a very easy and tasty curry made out of paneer (cottage cheese). This one is a dry curry and goes well with rotis/ phulkas/ naan.

Preparation and cooking time: 1 hour

Ingredients:

• Paneer cut into triangles (Cottage cheese)
• Tomatoes - 3
• Onion - 1
• Capsicum - 1
• Ginger-Garlic paste or crushed
• Red chilly powder - 1 spoon
• Turmeric powder - 1 spoon
• Salt - 2 spoon
• Edible oil

For garam masala:

• Bay leaf - 1/2
• Dry red chilies - 2
• Cinnamon stick - 1
• Cardamom - 4
• Cloves - 4
• Cumin seeds
• Coriander seeds

Preparation:

• Take a small frying pan and dry fry all the spices for garam masala for less than 2 mins. Be careful not to burn it. Once it cools down, grind it to make garam masala (powder). Keep aside. If you do not want strong garam masala taste, you can use exactly half of this powder.

• Shallow fry the paneer triangles in 2 spoon of edible oil for 3 mins. Keep aside.

• Take a cooking pan, add 2 spoons of edible oil and add some cumin seeds and wait till it crackles.
• Add chopped onions and saute. Also add crushed ginger-garlic (or paste).
• Saute for 5 mins till it becomes dark brown.

• Add the chopped tomatoes and saute till it becomes a puree. This could take 10 mins.

• Now add chopped capsicums (chopped into big pieces). Stir well.
• Add red chilly powder, turmeric powder and salt and 1/2 cup water and stir well.

• Close it with a lid and let it cook well for 10 mins.

• Once the capsicums are cooked and the water is dried, add the paneer pieces and garam masala and mix well.
• Close is with a lid and let it cook in low flame for 5-10 mins.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.

Delicious Kadai paneer is ready to serve. Enjoy it with hot phulkas. To make soft, fluffy and puffy phulkas, visit: http://she-simple-healthy-elegant.blogspot.in/2013/11/soft-and-puffy-phulkas.html