Shahi Paneer with step by step pictures. Delicious restaurant style shahi paneer recipe with creamy silky sauce is easy to make at home. It has few tricks and ingreidents to create the creamy texture. In this blog post, learn how to make Restaurant style Shahi Paneer with stepwise pictures.
Shahi Paneer Recipe
Shahi means royal, a royal paneer dish with lots of cream, cashews, yogurt. It is pretty mild gravy which goes really well with rotis, specially naan.
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About Shahi Paneer
Shahi paneer is an Indian subcontinent paneer delicacy made with a thick sauce of cream, tomatoes, and Indian spices. This meal is made by emulsifying tomatoes, onions, crushed cashews, clarified butter, and cream into a curry, then adding paneer
cubes and a variety of spices. It originated in Mughlai cuisine (thus the term shahi in allusion to the royal title of Shahanshah in Mughal India).
Shahi Paneer is indeed a very old and popular food of India. This version uses simple recipe and technique to make shahi paneer. This version of shahi paneer turns out super creamy and delicious.
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Shahi Paneer Ingredients
Paneer - It is well known that paneer is an excellent source of protein. You can use homemade paneer or store bought paneer.
Onions - onions is boiled before grinding to reduce the potent flavour and create creamy sauce.
Tomatoes - tomatoes is pureed and added into the curry to make the sauce smooth and creamy.
Cashews & Cream - these two ingredients adds creamy texture to shahi paneer. It adds malai like flavour and taste so rich.
Spices - shahi paneer uses whole spices as well as few spice powders like chilli powder, garam masala powder.
How to Make Shahi Paneer (Stepwise Pictures)
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Shahi Paneer Recipe (Restaurant Style)
Equipment
- Cooking pot
- Blender
Ingredients
For Tempering
- 3 tbsp Oil or Ghee
- 1 tsp Shahi Jeera
- 1 piece Cinnamon
- 2 pods Whole Cardamom crushed
- 2 no Whole Cloves
For Gravy
- 200 grams Paneer cubed
- 1 tbsp Kashmiri Chilli Powder
- 2 tsp Garam Masala Powder
- ¼ cup Yogurt | Curd thick and unsour
- ¼ cup Cream
- 2 tsp Salt or to taste
- 2 tsp Sugar or to taste
- 4 tbsp Coriander Leaves finely chopped
For Boiling & Grinding
- 2 large Onions peeled & chopped
- 1 inch Ginger peeled & chopped
- 6 cloves Garlic peeled & chopped
- 15 no Cashews
- 1 cup Water
Instructions
- Take cubed paneer in a bowl, add hot water over it and let it sit till needed.
- In a pan, take onion and other ingredients given for grinding. Cook that for 10 mins. Now cool this and take it in a blender. Puree till smooth. Set aside.
- Heat oil in a kadai. Add in whole spices and saute for a min. Add in pureed onion mix and cook till it thickens. Add in chilli and garam masala powder and give a good mix.
- Pour whisked yogurt and mix well. Cook for few mins. Add in water and bring it to a boil. Add in drained paneer and simmer for few mins. Add in salt, sugar and cream to taste and mix well. Add in coriander leaves and mix well and serve.
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A Spoonful of YUMM !
i LOVE paneer ! this looks very very yummy...good to go with roomali roti 😉
Sharmilee! :)
Yummy paneer curry and awesome stepwise explanation
Deeksha
Shahi paneer looks very tasty and colorful. I'm hungry now 🙂
sonu
i luv paneer makhani anytime..loved the colour u got ,looks so inviting !
Kalpana Sareesh
i love this dish so much its absolutely yumm n shd taste awesome..
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal
Can I get a parcel of this please? 🙂
SavithaRaj's Spice Land
Looks tasty and rich..
Cool Lassi(e)
Yummy and truly decadent Paneer dish!
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Aarthi
Hi aarthi.. It's my name too.. Tried this recipe and it came out so well... I regularly visit ur site..nd helps me learn a lot... Thank u very much.. 🙂
Sweta Chandna
Is it ok if i avoid frying the paneer and just useit as it is. I prefer it soft..
Aarthi
@Sweta Chandnayes u can use as it is
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sangeetha
Made it today thanks for the wonderful recpie
Priya
This is my 7 year old's favorite dish. I make it with out frying paneer since that's the way my son likes. I've been making it atleast once a week for him for the past 2 years, but just realized that I didn't thank you for the easy and tasty recipe. Thank you Aarthi. I love the way you show the procedure with your simple easy to follow pics. Keep giving us tasty recipes. Now I'm off to cook Shahi Paneer and Roti for dinner.
sindhu
Hi arthi. I tried this recipie and it came out very well. I learned cooking mainly from your site. Thank You so much:-)
Sonam Kumari
I tried this Shahi Paneer Recipe And it comes out delicious 🙂
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Fantastic and very interesting tasty..Loving it.
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Anonymous
Hi Aarthi ! I am a regular follower of your blog and lovely receipes ! I m new to cooking and your website with pics are of great help to me ! I have a doubt what is the difference between Shahi paneer and butter paneer masala ? Both are cooked in cashew gravy right ? Just a general clarification
Aarthi
@Anonymousshahi paneer has cashews in them
Supraja Muralidharan
Hi Aarthi,
This is nice!!
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Thank you,
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Tanisha Singh
I love Indian recipe, it looks very delicious and healthy, this sunday i am going in restaurant for eating that kind of food. restaurant near venkateshwar college
Sneka
Can I add fresh cream before garnishing for flavor ??
Aarthi
yes u can
Sneka
Tried this recipe yesterday..Really it was gud...Thank u so much for this recipe....
Priyanka B F
Tried this receipe and it came out so well. My kids loved it so much.