Chettinad Kadai Paneer Recipe - Easy Paneer Recipes

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Delicious and spicy chettinad kadai paneer recipe which has roasted spices in them. This dish taste amazing with roti or naan.

This is a flavourful spicy paneer dish which has freshly roasted spices in them. This taste amazing with roti, naan or pulao too. You can serve it with steamed rice as well.

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Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

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Chettinad Kadai Paneer Recipe

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Delicious and spicy chettinad kadai paneer recipe which has roasted spices in them. This dish taste amazing with roti or naan.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 45 minutes mins

Total Time 55 minutes mins

Course Main

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4 servings

Ingredients

  

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• Paneer - 200 grams cubed
• Oil - 3 tblsp
• Onion - 1 large cubed
• Capsicum - 1 large cubed
• Tomato Puree - 2 large pureed
• Garam Masala Powder - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Sugar - 1 tsp
• Kasuri methi leaves Dried fenugreek leaves - 1 tblsp

FOR ROASTING & GRINDING:

• Coriander Seeds - 1.5 tblsp
• Dry Red Chillies - 5
• Fennel Seeds / Saunf / Sombu - 1 tsp
• Cinnamon / Pattai - 1 small piece
• Black Pepper - 1 tsp
• Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp

Instructions

 

• Roast whole spices till golden on low flame. Cool it. Grind to a fine powder.
• Heat oil in a pan, add onion and capsicum and saute for a min.
• Add in tomato puree and mix well. Cook till oil separates.
• Add salt and sugar and mix well.
• Add spice powders and mix well. Saute for 2 mins.
• Add in water and boil it.
• Add paneer and mix well. Simmer for 5 mins.
• Add garam masala powder and fenugreek leaves and mix well.
• Serve.

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Pictorial:

1)Soak paneer cubes in warm water till needed.

2)Take whole spices in a pan and roast till aromatic

3)Roast them on a low flame

4)Take it in a blender

5)Powder fine

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5)Heat oil in a pan, add onions and capsicum

6)Saute for 2 mins.

7)Add in tomato puree

8)Cook till oil separates

9)Add salt and sugar to taste

10)Add spice powders

11)Mix well

12)Add water

13)Bring it to a boil

14)Simmer till oil separates

15)Add paneer cubes

16)Mix well

17)Add garam masala powder.

18)Mix well

19)Add kasuri methi leaves

20)Mix well

21)Serve