Video: How to make Paneer Pasanda

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Maahi Gupta wrote in to us and showed us how to make Paneer Pasanda

Ingredients

• 250 Gms Cottage Cheese (Paneer)
• 2 Onions
• 8 Garlic Cloves
• 3 Inch Ginger
• 2 Green Chilli
• 3 Tomatoes
• 1/2 Cup Fresh Cream
• 1/2 Cup Corn Flour
• 1.5 tsp Coriander powder
• 1.5 inch Cinnamon (Dalchini)
• 5 Cloves (Laung)
• 1/4 tsp Black Pepper seeds
• 2 big Cardamom (badi Elaichi)
• 2 Small Cardamom (choti elaichi)
• 1 tsp Red Chili powder
• 1/4 tsp Turmeric
• 1/4 tsp White Pepper Powder
• 2 Bay Leaves
• 3 tsp Cashew Nuts
• 2 tsp Raisins
• 3/4 tsp Salt
• 1 Cup Water
• 2 tsp Coriander leaves for garnishing

Preperation

• Submerge Cashew nuts in water to help in grinding.
• Take out 1/4 Cottage cheese for mashing and cut triangular pieces from rest.
• Cut the triangular pieces from center leaving one of the corner intact.
• Mash Cottage cheese. Add Raisins, 1/4 tsp Salt and 1/2 of your Ginger (Grated)
• Add 1/2 of your White pepper powder and 1/2 of crushed Cashew nuts.
• Mix well and stuff this mixture in all the Cottage cheese slices that we made earlier.
• Heat oil in frying pan. Warm some water in another pan for making Corn Flour paste.
• Add Corn flour in bowl. Add 1/4 tsp Salt. Make a thick mixture using warm water.
• Corn flour paste should be thick enough to cover the Cottage cheese slices completely.
• Dip the Cottage Cheese slice completely in corn flour paste and fry in hot oil. Fry all slices until they turn light golden brown.

For the gravy

• Cottage Cheese fried slices are ready. Let start making gravy.
• Crush the remaining Cashew nuts with 2 tsp of water.
• Take a pan, add 2 Tbsp oil and shallow fry the Onions.Fry until they turn light pink and then keep them aside to cool down.
• Cut tomatoes into four pieces and shallow fry.
• We will grind Onion & tomato after shallow fry as it adds a unique flavor to gravy.Tomaotes have softened, keep them aside for cooling down.
• Grind fried Onions, Ginger and garlic together to a fine paste.
• Grind Tomatoes separately to a fine paste.
• Chop Green Chilli into small pieces.
• Take a pan, add 1 Tbsp oil and heat it. Add Bay leaves, big and small cardamom, Cloves, Black pepper seeds, Cinnamon and cook it for 30 sec..
• Add Onion paste and cook on medium flame until it turns golden brown.
• Add Tomato paste when Onion turns golden brown.
• Add chopped Green Chilli and cook for 1 min..
• Add Coriander powder, Turmeric, Red Chilli & White pepper powder and Salt.Cook until it gets one boil.
• After a boil, add crushed Cashed nuts and Cream. Mix well.
• Add 1 Cup Water and cook for 5 min. on medium flame.
• Add fried Cottage Cheese slices & mix well with Gravy. Garnish with Coriander leaves.
• Paneer Pasanda is ready to serve. (Serves 3)

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