Mutter Paneer Recipe
You can make this exotic dish with ingredients from your local Food Lion!
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Ingredients: 4 cups of Food Lion whole milk
Juice of 1 lemon
Muslin cloth
Step 1:
Boil milk twice on high heat and add juice of one lemon. The whey will separate from paneer. Drain the whey, tie up paneer in a muslin cloth and hang it up all day to allow excess water to drain away.
Step 2:
Place the muslin with the paneer under a heavy weight to ensure that all the moisture is squeezed out. This will flatten the paneer into a flat round cake when removed from the muslin. Cut the paneer into strips or cubes.
Ingredients:
2 cups Food Lion frozen green peas
2 cups cubed paneer
4 tablespoon Olive Oil
3-4 green chillies-slit a little
Onions 2 large
Tomato fresh - 1
Ginger 1 inch piece, Garlic 3 cloves - made into a paste (or Nature's Place minced garlic)
Turmeric powder 1/4 teaspoon
Red chilli powder 1 teaspoon
Coriander powder 1 teaspoon
Garam masala powder 1 teaspoon
Almond or Cashew paste - 2 tablespoon
Food Lion Heavy cream - ½ a cup
Salt to taste
Cilantro to garnish
Method:
- Heat olive oil in a sauce pan and saute the cubed paneer turning them gently until slightly browned on all sides
- Remove paneer from the pan and set aside on a paper towel to remove excess oil
- Add the slit open green chillies, sautee and remove
- Add sliced onion to the pan and saute until golden brown. Add ginger and garlic paste and saute.
- Add chilli powder, corriander powder, garam masala powder and salt. Stir constantly until the oil start oozing out.
- Add the chopped tomato, allow it to cook for 3 - 5 minutes.
- Add green peas and ½ o water, cook until its tender
- Add the almond or cashew paste to thicken the gravy
- Add ½ of heavy cream and once it starts boiling, reduce heat, add the paneer and simmer for few more minutes.
- Transfer to a serving bowl garnish with the retained fried green chillies and cilantro.
- Serve with basmati rice or Naan (Indian flabread)