Mutter Paneer

 

                                                                                                            DATE:     17 January 2013

 

INGREDIENTS	QUANTITY
Paneer	500 gm
Green Pea ( mutter )	150 gm
Oil	100 ml
Ghee	50 ml
Butter	50 ml
Fresh Cream	100 ml
Onion (fine chop)	150 gm
Tomato  (fine chop)	150 gm
Whole Garam masala	2 no each
Chopped coriander	5 spoon
Cumin Powder	2 spoon
Coriander Powder	1 spoon
Salt	As per
Whole garam masala powder	1 tsp
Turmeric Powder	1 tsp
Kashmiri chili Pwder	2 spoon
Cashew paste	50 gm
Ginger/Garlic paste	3 spoon
Water	As required

Procedure :-

Mutter-Paneer one of the delicacy of north Indian cuisine and its preferred all around the globe. Its really very tasty and mouth watering dish for vegetarian as well for non-vegetarian also. The gravy of this dish is rich and creamy.

To start with this preparation first of all cut the paneer in 1” cube and keep it aside. Take a casserole add oil and ghee let it b hot on fire and then put the mixture of whole garam masala as mentioned above. After tempering or crackling of garam masala add fine chopped onion and stir properly so that all the onion gets the even color and make it brown then add fine chop tomatoes and mix it well then add ginger garlic paste and keep on frying till the oil comes out from the gravy, keep on frying on slow fire. When the oil comes out from the mixture add all spices like chili powder, turmeric powder, cumin and coriander powder, and salt also. After adding all these dry powder ingredients add little amount of water in this gravy so that it wont burn and the taste of the gravy wont change.

Keep on cooking or frying all these on slow fire and then add cream and cashew nut paste in the gravy add water as required then let this gravy on simmer fire so that oil can come out  and then add mutter (green pea) in it and then add paneer and half of chopped coriander and garam masala powder in it.

Finish it with butter and left over chopped coriander.
you can garnish it with coriander sprig or your choice I prefer to garnish it with fine julienne ginger