Paneer Pasanda - Restaurant style Paneer ki sabzi

Paneer Pasanda is the most popular choice among vegetarian curries. It is always fun to recreate restaurant style dishes at home. Paneer ki sabzi is like a patent order, for most of us. This restaurant style Paneer Pasanda is easy to make and tastes amazing.

Paneer Pasanda is a rich and creamy dish of paneer (cottage cheese) tossed in a gravy of onions and tomatoes. This dish has a mild sweet taste and is best paired with naan or jeera rice. So let's get started!

Paneer Pasanda

Paneer Pasanda Recipe:

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Serves: 4-5 people

Ingredients-

• 2 tbsp oil
• 2 cups diced paneer
• 2 cups diced tomatoes 
• 1 cup diced onion
• 1 tbsp diced garlic
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 cup water
• 8-10 cashew nuts
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 2-3 kashmiri red chili
• 1 tsp red chili powder
• 1 tsp kasuri methi (dried fenugreek leaves)
• 2 tbsp butter
• 4 tbsp cream
• 1 tbsp coriander leaves (for garnishing)
• Salt as per taste

The method-

1. Heat the oil in a pan on medium flame. Add garam masala, garlic and onion to it.

2. Once the onion turns translucent, add tomatoes, cashew nuts, water and kashmiri red chili to the mixture. Saute it for 5-10 minutes and turn the flame off.

3. Let the mixture cool down and transfer it to a blender. Grind this mix to a smooth paste and set it aside.

Grind the mix made in Step 2

4. Now add butter to the pan, along with red chili powder. This gives the curry, a nice colour.

5. Add the paste formed in step 3 to the pan. Add salt, sugar, kasuri methi and cream to the same. Cook this mix for 2 minutes.

6. Add paneer cubes to the mix above and cook for 3 minutes on medium flame.

7. Garnish your curry with coriander leaves and it is now ready to serve!

Notes-

1. Use tomatoes which have a sweet and tangy taste.

2. Oil or butter should leave the sides of the pan, while cooking the blended puree, so that the raw flavours of the vegetables disappear.

3. You can add artificial food colour, to give a better colour to your dish.

Paneer Pasanda is ready to serve

You can never have enough of Paneer, can you? The same dish can be made in a lot of other ways too. I hope you enjoyed this quick, easy and delicious method of making Paneer Pasanda. If you make it some other way, let in know in the comments section below.

I hope you all are taking good care of your health. At Savour with Sakshi, I'll keep sharing more such interesting recipes with you. Stay tuned!

Yours foodly,

Sakshi.