Aloo Paneer
Aloo paneer or potatoes with cottage cheese. A completely no onion garlic recipe. Very flavourful rich creamy and spicy curry.
Equipment
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Wok or Pan
- 1 Spatula
- 1 Cover or lid
Ingredients
- 2-3 Potatoes peeled and cubed
- 1 cup Paneer or cottage cheese Cubed
- 2 Tomato Chopped
- 1 Bay leaf
- 2-3 Green cardamom
- 1 Inch Cinnamon
- 3 Cloves
- 1 Inch Ginger
- 1-2 Green chilli
- 21 tbsp Khaskhas or poppy seeds
- 1/2 tbsp Melon seeds
- 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
- Salt to
- 1/2 to tsp Sugar Optional
- 1 tsp Coriander powder
- 1 tsp Cumin powder
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1/4 tsp Garam masala powder
- 1 tbsp Kashmiri red chilli powder
- 2-3 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Ghee or clarified butter
- 2 tsp Cream or malai
- 1&1/2 cup Water
Instructions
- Soak the khuskhus in hot water or microwave for 2 minutes with water.
- Soak the melon seeds and keep aside for some time.
- Grind both the khuskhus and melon seeds to make a fine paste. Or dry grind the poppy seeds and melon seeds. Add in green chilli, chopped ginger and chopped tomatoes to the paste. Grind them altogether. Keep aside.
- Fry the potatoes and paneer cubes.
- Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seed. Let it crackle now add broken cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and bay leaf. Now add the ground masala paste. Fry well.
- Add all the spices. Saute and when oil leaves the sides add fried potatoes, salt and sugar. Saute again.
- Add cream or malai, mix well. Saute for some more time. When completely dried up add water as much gravy you a want.
- Add paneer cubes. Let it boil. Cover and cook on low medium flame till the potatoes done. Add a spoonful ghee and its ready.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves or green chilli. Serve hot with steamed rice, pulao, jeerarice, roti, paratha or poori.
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Notes
1. You can also use onion garlic if you want. Boil chopped 1 chopped onion and 3-4 cloves Ginger and grind to make smooth paste. Grind when cool. Add it after tempering. Fry till oil leaves the sides. Then add tomato ginger and seeds paste.