Paneer Malai Curry/No Onion No Garlic curry

Paneer malai curry or cottage cheese in rich creamy aromatic coconut milk gravy. Prawn malai curry is a famous dish of Bengali cuisine. Here is a pure veg version of prawn malai curry. This delectable curry is made with paneer and without onion garlic. Try and enjoy the heavenly taste.

You may like to try some more savoury paneer or cottage cheese recipes from this blog.

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Tomato Corn Peas Paneer Kadhi

Paneer In Mustard gravy/Chhanar Sorshe Jhal

Gobhi Palak Paneer Or Cauliflower With Spinach And Cottage Cheese

Chhanar Dalna Or Paneer/Cottage Cheese Balls In Gravy

Kathal Paneer Kofta Curry Or Raw Jackfruit And Cottage Cheese Balls In Gravy

Schezwan Paneer

Italian Flavoured Paneer Bhurji

Methi Paneer Kofta In Palak Gravy / Fenugreek And Cottage Cheese Balls In Spinach Gravy

Cottage Cheese Or Paneer Capsicum Stir Fry

Paneer Kala Chana Kofta Curry

Mint Paneer Kofta Or Cottage Cheese Balls In Mint Gravy

Soya Paneer / Cottage Cheese  Lollipop 

Paneer Or Cottage Cheese Croquettes / Finger Food / Fritters 

Hariyali Paneer Makhani Masala/Green Cottage Cheese With Butter Gravy

Shahi Paneer

Aloo Paneer

Broccoli With Cottage Cheese And Mixed Vegetables

Egg Corn Cottage Cheese Baked / Casserole

Corn Cottage Cheese Stir Fry

Savoury Rasgulla Korma 

Malai Kofta

And you can also get many more dessert or sweet recipes with paneer or cottage cheese.

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Fried paneer cubes in tomato, cashew, coconut gravy with aromatic spices taste divine. You can serve this as party side dish. Soaked dry red chilli is optional. Used it to get a different flavor and color. Discard the seeds to reduce hotness of the chilli. You can use 1 more dry red chilli if you like more spicy. Use green chilli and red chilli according to your taste. If making for kids reduce the amount of chilli.

It can be made with easily available ingredients. You need tomato, green chilli, ginger, cashew nuts, poppy seeds, green cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, paneer cubes, fresh grated coconut, dry red chilli and coconut milk. Dry red chilli is optional. Discarded the seeds of dry red chilli to reduce hotness. But if you like your curry more spicy, you can also use the seeds or use more dry red chilli. And if don’t like your curry much spicy, skip dry red chilli. But soaked chilli will give your curry a nice flavor and color.

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Recipe

Paneer – 1 heaped cup, cubed

Tomato – 1

Ginger – 1 inch piece

Green chilli – 1 + 2

Green cardamom – 3

Cinnamon – 1 inch piece

Cloves – 3

Grated coconut – 2 tablespoon

Cashew nuts – 2&1/2 tablespoon or 10-12

Poppy seeds or khas khas – 1&1/2 tablespoon

Dry red chilli – 1, optional

Cumin powder – 1 teaspoon

Turmeric powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Kashmiri red chilli powder – 1 tablespoon

Salt – to taste

Sugar – 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon

Oil – 2-3 tablespoon

Coconut milk – 1 cup

Water – 1/2 cup

Garam masala powder – 1/4 teaspoon

Ghee or clarified butter – 2 teaspoon

Method

1. Remove the seeds of dry red chilli and soak in 2 tablespoon water.

2. Grind cashew nuts and poppy seeds. Scrap the sides and add grated coconut and 2 tablespoon water. Make a smooth paste. Add green cardamom cloves and cinnamon. Grind again to make smooth paste. Keep aside.

3. Grind green chilli, ginger, tomato and soaked dry red chilli. Don’t discard the water of soaked chilli, we will use it. Grind into a smooth paste.

4. Heat oil in a pan or wok. Fry the paneer cubes. Fry from all the sides and transfer to a plate.

5. In the same oil add tomato, ginger and green chilli paste. Add turmeric powder, cumin powder and Kashmiri red chilli powder. Saute till oil leaves the sides.

6. Add cashew nuts, poppy seeds, coconut and whole spices paste. Saute again till oil separates. Add salt and sugar. Mix well and add red chilli soaked water.

7. Add 1/2 cup more water and coconut milk. Mix well. Add 2 green chilli and let it boil.

8. Add fried paneer cubes and cook on simmer for 5-6 minutes.

9. Add ghee or clarified butter and garam masala. Mix and remove from heat.

10. Serve rich creamy aromatic and lipsmackingly delicious paneer malai curry with pulao, jeera rice, roti, paratha, naan, puri or any flatbread.

Notes

1. Use chilli according to your spice tolerance. If you are making for kids skip red chilli. And if you want to make your curry more spicy, use 2-3 red chilli.

2. You can also make it without frying the paneer cubes.

3. Sugar is optional but for better taste use atleast 1/4 teaspoon or a pinch, don’t skip.

4. Instead of grinding you can use crushed green cardamom, cloves and cinnamon in tempering before adding tomato paste but ground spices will will make your gravy smooth and flavorful.

This month our Facebook gourmet group Shhhhh Cooking Secretly Challenge theme is no onion no garlic recipes suggested by Priya Iyer who blog at https://www.thephotowali.wordpress.com.

This time my partner is Priya Vijaykrishnan. Priya gave me poppy seeds and cashew nuts as secret ingredients. And I am sharing this paneer malai curry with these ingredients. And I gave her ginger and cumin as secret ingredients. Priya made a delicious no onion garlic Aloo gobhi sabji or potato cauliflower curry with these ingredients.