CHATKA PANEER

Hello everyone

Are you wondering over its name? No use of doing that as this wonder name is given by my 10 yrs old daughter , who is die hard fan of paneer dishes. According to her it is yummy chatakhedaar dish , so deserve this kind of name. As I didn't tasted it yet due to my fast today but my lil fussy eater too confirmed the authenticity of his elder sis's statement and finished his lunch in no time 😁😁. This made me confident enough to share this recipe with you all.

Stepwise recipe is given below, hope you will also love it as my kids do.

CHATKA PANEER

Serves: 4-5

Time : 30 mins

Ingredients 

2 cup cottage cheese ( paneer) , cubed

2 big onions, cubed

1 medium capscicum, cubed

1 big onion, thinly sliced 

1 tbsp ginger garlic paste 

2-3 green chilies, slitted 

1 medium tomato, chopped

1/4 cup tomato puree ( I used store bought)

1 tbsp kitchen King masala

2 tsp coriander powder

2 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder

1/2 tsp turmeric powder 

1/2 tsp garam masala powder

1/2 tsp cumin seeds

1 cup milk

2 tsp kasoori methi, crushed between palms.

Salt to taste

Oil

Method:

Heat some oil in a wok, add cumin seeds. Let it crackle then add slitted chilies and sliced onions. Saute till onions become nice golden. Now add ginger garlic paste and saute for a minute.

 Add chopped tomatoes , little salt and all dry spice powders except garam masala. Saute till tomatoes are mushy.Now add pureed tomato and again Saute till it starts leaving oil.

 Now add cubed capsicum and onions. Saute for 2-3 minutes then cover and cook till onions get transparent. 

Add milk and cook it stirring constantly till it boils. Add water as per your choice of gravy consistency, add salt and let it boil again. 

Now add paneer cubes and let it simmer for 3-4 mins. Finally add kasoori methi and garam masala. Again simmer for 1 min and switch off the flame. 

Your delicious chatakhedaar paneer gravy is ready to be served with roti/poori/paratha/naan or rice/pulao. In each combo it tastes delicious.

** you can increase quantity of chilli as per your taste to make it more or less hot. I kept it medium hot.

If you have unannounced guests and want to serve something delicious yet fussfree and quick the go for it, you will never regret.

Hope you all will love to try this super yum paneer gravy recipe and don't forget to share your experience with me. 

Please pour your valuable comments and suggestions here, they meant a lot to me.

Happy cooking....