Thursday, October 22, 2009

Paneer Makhani

Ingredients:
I kg ripe tomatos

1/2 kg paneer
2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
1tsp red chilly powder
1/2 tsp bhuna jeera powder
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
5 flowers of mace
10 green cardamom
salt to taste
100 gm butter(preferably white)
1 cup fresh cream
1 tsp kasoori methi
1tsp sugar
Chopped dhania

Directions:
Boil tomatos with mace and green cardamom for 5 minutes.Then take out mace and cardamom and make a puree of tomatos.In a pan heat half of butter and add ginger-garlic paste, and fry well.Add tomato puree and fry. Reduce it by 1/4 th in quantity.Add red chilly, garam masala. jeera powder. Add salt and sugar and remaining butter and cook for a minutes.Add paneer cubes and fry a little.Now add fresh cream and kasuri methi.Kasuri methi should be dry roasted and crushed.Mix it well and cook for another 2 minutes.Decorate with chppoed dhania.If we use Tandoori Chicken instead of paneer, then we can make Butter Chicken with same recipe.

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