INGREDIENTS:
Paneer (Cottage Cheese)
Onions
Tomatoes
Green Peas
Ginger
Garlic
Oil
Salt as per taste
Turmeric Powder
Red Chillie Powder
Milk
Tomato Ketchup
Curd or Yogurt to make Paneer
Dry Mixture: Cloves, Cinnamon stick, Cashewnuts, Almonds and Cardamum (Elaichi) without skin should be taken for the Gravy
METHOD:
- Boil Milk in a pan and add 2 to 3 tsp of Curds to it or Lemon Juice
- whey forms out of the milk and Paneer is ready
- Add salt as per taste to this paneer and curdle it
- Take a muslin cloth and drain out this whey into another vessel
- Fold this muslin cloth and place it on a reverse plate and keep some heavy vessel on it so that the paneer cubes will be form out of this paneer chunck
- Leave it aside for half an hour so that whole whey water comes out of paneer.
- Boil the Green Peas and keep aside.
- Chop the Onions and Tomatoes and keep aside.
- Puree the tomatoes in a mixer and keep aside.
- Grind the Cloves, Cinnamon stick and Elaichi without skin and Cashewnuts and Almonds in a dry grinder and keep aside
- Grate finely Ginger and Garlic flakes and keep aside.
- Take Oil in a pan and when hot add chopped Onions and saute till light brown colour
- Add Grated Ginger and Garlic flakes and saute for few minutes and off the Gas and let it cool
- Now Puree the above Onion mixture in a mixer by adding little water to it
- Take Oil in a pan and add the Onion mixture and cook in low flame till the raw smell of Onions goes away for 2 to 3 mins
- Add Dry mixture to it and mix well
- Till the dry mixture cooks well with Onion mixture mix all the ingredients well
- Add Tomato Puree to it and mix well
- Finally add Turmeric Powder, Red Chillie Powder, Salt as per taste and mix well
- Add Tomato ketchup to it and mix well
- Add boiled milk to it to get rich Gravy and let it boil for 2 mins
- Add Boiled Green Peas and mix well
- Cut the Paneer into small cubes and add to the above gravy
Serve hot Panner Peas Curry with chapathi or Naan