nawabi paneer recipe

Nawabi Paneer Recipe

Nawabi Paneer Recipe

Cottage cheese (paneer) is one of most liked component of vegetarian’s food. Lots of curries and snacks are prepared with cottage cheese (Paneer). Nawabi Paneer Recipe is a delicious curry, which is prepared with cottage cheese. It is a popular mughlai recipe and it’s spices are prepared authentically. This is one of the favourite dish of Nawabs. A blend of subtle spices is used that make this mouth-watering gravy absolutely irresistible!!

Try out this special delicious Indian recipe on your special occasions. For other vegetarian gravy like Paneer korma, Matar Mushrooms, Babycorn-Mushroom Korma visit our website.

 

How to Make Nawabi Paneer Recipe

Ingredients

Cottage cheese (paneer) 500 gram
Onion (payaz) grated 1 big
Garlic (lahsan) paste 1 tea spoon
Ginger (adrakh) paste 1 tea spoon
Turmeric (haldi) ½ tea spoon
Brown sugar 1 table spoon
Salt (namak) to taste

Spices to grind

Coriander seeds 1 table spoon
Cashew nuts (kaju) 8 -10 pieces
Stone flower (Pathhar phool) ¼ tea spoon
Broken Cinnamon (dalchini) ½ tea spoon
Cloves (laung) 2-3
Brown cardamom (moti elaichi) seeds 1
Black pepper (kali mirch) 8-10
Whole red chilli (sabut lal mirch) 2

Instructions

  1. Heat oil in a pan and fry the paneer pieces and keep aside.
  2. Combine coriander seeds, cardamom seeds, cashew-nuts, black pepper, cloves, turmeric powder, cinnamon, black pepper, stone flower, whole red chilli and grind them all together in a grinder.
  3. Heat clarified butter in a deep pan.
  4. Now add bay leaves and stir it for 30 seconds, then add onions, garlic and, ginger and cook this for few minutes until onions turn light brown. Add the ground spices and brown sugar and stir it for 5-7 minutes.
  5. Add fried paneer pieces and adjust salt and cook this for 5-7 minutes..
  6. Add some water into the pan and adjust the thickness of curry as per desire.
  7. Serve “Nawabi paneer” with “Nan” or “Roti”.

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