Tawa Paneer Masala

As my son loves to eat paneer curries with roti or naan,these days paneer appears in my kitchen more frequently.
Last week I tried this panner tawa masala recipe and it came out very delicious and paired up with naan.
The recipe I adapted from Taraladalal and slightly tweaked to the ingredients available in my pantry.Now off to the recipe....................

Basic Information

Preparation time ~ 15 minutes
Cooking Time     ~ 30 minutes
Serves                  ~ 3

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Paneer(cubed)	200gms
Onion(finely chopped)	1(medium size)
Tomato(pureed)	2(medium size)
Green chilly/pachamilgai	2(finely chopped)
Ginger&garlic paste	2tsp
Red chilly powder	3/4tsp
Coriander powder	11/4tsp
Garam masala powder	1/4tsp
Turmeric powder	1/8tsp
Cumin seeds/jeeragam	1/2tsp
Coriander leaves(chopped)	as needed
Kasoori methi leaves	1/4tsp(optional)
Fresh cream(optional)	2tbs
Salt	to taste
Oil	3tbs

For Marination

Ingredient	Quantity
Thick curd/thayir	3tbs
Red chilly powder/milgaipodi	1/4tsp
Turmeric powder/manjal podi	1/4tsp
Kassori methi	1/2tsp

Method

Mix the ingredients given for marinate in a bowl,add the paneer cubes to it and mix it well.Make sure each cube is coated with the marinade.Keep it in a refrigerator 30 minutes.
Heat a pan with 2tsp of oil and shallow fry the marinated paneer cubes till it gets golden and set it aside.Now heat the remaining oil in a pan and saute the onion,green chillies with a pinch of salt till translucent.

Add the ginger&garlic paste an fry it till the raw smell goes off.Once the ginger &garlic paste cooked well add in the chilly and coriander powder,give it a mix.Add in the tomato puree and cook it till the oil separates.

Now add the fried paneer cubes and give it a mix,add 1/2 cup of water to it.Sprinkle the garam masla powder and cook it a medium flame for 3-4 minutes.

At this stage the fresh cream and stir it well,cook for a minute and remove from heat.Garnish it with some chopped coriander leaves.

Paneer Tawa Masala is ready.

Serve it with naan or roti.

Enjoy.........................................

• Here I chopped the onion very finely if you want you can coarsely grind in the blender.
• Instead of cream 3 tbs of milk can be used but adding cream gives rich taste.
• Use thick curd for the marination.

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