Recipe: Perfect Kadai Paneer

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Kadai Paneer. Kadai Paneer is a delicious dish made from firm cottage cheese, onions, tomatoes, capsicum (green bell peppers) and Indian spices. There are two ways the recipe can be made and I am sharing both the versions in this post. Kadai paneer recipe - Indian cottage cheese (paneer) cooked in onion tomato gravy with homemade kadai masala & bell peppers.

Kadai Paneer Recipe - About Kadai Paneer Recipe

Paneer Recipe: A quintessential paneer specialty that can be always found on a restaurant menu and dinner parties!

A sumptuous paneer dish that tops a vegetarian's list, this paneer recipe can be made dry, semi dry or in a gravy version.

You can have Kadai Paneer using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Kadai Paneer

  1. You need 250 gm of Paneer.

  2. You need 1 of large Capsicum.

  3. It’s 2 of Onion.

  4. It’s 1 of tomato.

  5. It’s 3 teaspoon of fresh cream.

  6. It’s 4-5 teaspoon of butter.

  7. Prepare 1 tsp of Red chilli powder.

  8. It’s 1/2 tsp of Turmeric powder.

  9. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Ginger garlic paste.

  10. You need To taste of Salt.

We have here is a semi dry paneer recipe that can be served as a main dish at a dinner party or on festivals.

Kadai Paneer is a popular paneer recipe where paneer and bell peppers are cooked in a spicy masala.

It is one of the most popular paneer recipes.

It's there on the menu in almost all Indian restaurants.

Kadai Paneer instructions

  1. Cut paneer into medium size cube, cut onion and capsicum in large pieces grill them..

  2. Then shallow fry the onion, tomato, ginger and red chilli and grind them well..

  3. Add butter in the pan add your grind mixture let it cook for 5 min. Add water accordingly and salt. High the flame and add cream and cook it for 2min. Then add grilled paneer, capsicum and onion..

I remember always ordering it when we ate out.

If you like your paneer in a spicy chatpata masala then kadai paneer recipe is custom made for you.

Chunks of pan fried cottage cheese and cubes of tomato and green capsicum cooked in a delicious bhuna onion and tomato masala.

The paneer chunks are pan fried and then soaked in warm water which makes them so soft that they just melt in your mouth.

Kadai Paneer or Karahi Paneer is a famous Paneer gravy recipe and is one of the most common dishes ordered in an Indian restaurant.