Restaurant Style Shahi Paneer Recipe

Shahi means royal, a royal paneer dish with lots of cream, cashews, yogurt. It is pretty mild gravy which goes really well with rotis, specially naan..

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I made it for yesterday since few guests visited us. And everyone loved it to the core.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

Preparation time : 10 mins
Cooking time : 45 mins to 1 hour
Serves: 4

Ingredients:

Paneer - 2 cups cubed
Oil - 3 tblspn
Cumin Seeds / Shahi Jeera - 1 tsp
Cinnamon / Pattai - 1 stick
Cardamom / Yelakai - 4 crushed
Cloves / Krambu - 4
Chilli Powder - 1 tblspn
Garam Masala Powder - 1 tblspn
Yogurt / Curd - 1/2 cup
Cream - 2 to 3 tblspn
Salt to taste
Sugar to taste
Coriander Leaves a handful finely chopped

For Grinding:
Onion - 2 large chopped
Ginger - 4 cm chopped
Garlic - 6 cloves
Cashews - 20
Water - 1 cup

Method:

Take cubed paneer in a bowl, add hot water over it and let it sit till needed.

In a pan, take onion and other ingredients given for grinding. Cook that for 10 mins. Now cool this and take it in a blender. Puree till smooth. Set aside.

Heat oil in a kadai. Add in whole spices and saute for a min.

Add in pureed onion mix and cook till it thickens.

Add in chilli and garam masala powder and give a good mix.

Add in whisked yogurt and mix well. Cook for few mins.

Add in water and bring it to a boil. Add in drained paneer and simmer for few mins.

Add in salt, sugar and cream to taste and mix well.

Add coriander leaves and mix well.

Serve.

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