Peas Paneer Pulav - Sauteed Cottage cheese, Green peas mixed with Basmati Rice

PEAS PANEER PULAV

Peas Paneer Pulav is a very easy to make dish and takes just around 30 min to prepare.
Since it contains rich ingredients such as Paneer and peas, its nutritious too. 
Children will like it a lot. 

Ingredients for Peas Paneer Pulav

Basmati Rice-3 cups
Paneer - 200gm (small cubes)
Green Peas - 1 cup
Ghee - 2 tbsn
Butter - 2 tbsn
Cummin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Ginger-Garlic Paste - 1 tbsn
Pepper Powder - 2 tsp
Onion - 1, medium, finely chopped 
Chilli Powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam Masala - 3/4 tsp
Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup
Lemon - 1/2 slice
Salt as needed

Steps to make Peas Paneer Pulav

Clean the rice and soak in water for 10 min. 

Cook the rice and keep aside. 
While cooking the rice, add a spoon of oil. This helps in giving a shine to the rice after its cooked and also, avoids breaking of the cooked rice.For cooking the rice, I DIDNOT use a cooker. I boil it in low flame for around 10-15 min and drain the water using a colander.

Take a frying pan and pour butter and ghee. After it becomes hot, add cummin seeds and fry.
When the aroma of the fried cummin seeds come, add the ginger-garlic paste, pepper powder and saute well for 1/2 min.

Add the chopped onion into the pan (if you capsicum @ home you can also add it, finely chopped).
Saute the onion till it becomes brownish. Add chilly powder and Garam Masala into it and mix thoroughly.

Now add the green peas and paneer pieces into the pan. 

Saute for some time till the paneer edges becomes slightly brownish.

Add the steamed rice into the mixture and mix it.

Garnish with coriander leaves and add the lemon juice into it.

Peas Paneer Pulav is ready. 

Serve hot with curd or raita

Paneer Pepper Fry - Cottage cheese fried with pepper in a spicy thick gravy

Paneer pepper fry

Ever since I started writing this blog, I read many magazines, recipe books and many other blogs too. It helps me a lot in making many dishes made in different parts of India.

I get a lot of north Indian dishes ideas from my husband!! When he was working in Gujarat a few years back he had the opportunity to have lot of north Indian dishes and tells me about such dishes. Since he was a bachelor in those times, he used to make a lot of such north Indian dishes...he likes Punjabi dishes a lot! From him I got to know the names of few North Indian dishes and their ingredients...That prompted me to refer other famous blogs and recipe videos... 

Recently when we went to a hotel and saw the menu we saw this dish called paneer pepper fry. My DH liked the idea and ordered it immediately, I also liked it very much.

I decided to make this dish @ home. 

When I tasted it, I could understand the ingredients that were included in it. 

So here we go!!

Ingredients:

Paneer - 200 gms
Onions - 4 nos
Tomato - 1 no
Green chillies - 3 nos
Ginger - 1/2 piece
Garlic - 3 small cloves
black pepper powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves - 4-5 nos
salt to taste

Process:

Cut the paneer into small cubes and keep it aside. 

After that, chop the onions into very thin pieces length wise. Also chop the tomato into very small pieces and keep it aside. Next chop the garlic and ginger into small sizes and keep aside. Also slit the green cillies length wise. 

Take a frying pan and  pour 3-4 tablespoons of oil. Once the oil is hot, add the sliced onions and add a bit of salt. Saute till they became brown. Add the chopped tomatoes and saute it for 5 minutes (tomato need to be chopped into very small pieces). 
once the tomatoes also cook, add the finely chopped ginger, garlic and green chillies and saute for a few minutes.

After that add turmeric powder, garam masala powder, pepper powder and salt. 

Mix thoroughly and saute for sometime. Once the water almost evaporates and oil starts leaving the sides of the pan, add the paneer pieces and and mix it well. Allow to simmer in a low flame for 10 minutes. At last sprinkle some more pepper powder into it. 

Paneer pepper fry is ready to be served. Serve it with chapathis, parattas etc.

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Paneer Bhurji - Crumbled Cottage Cheese in Sauteed Onions, tomatoes and spices

Paneer Bhurji is a simple easy to make North Indian dish made from crumbled  paneer or cottage cheese. This dish is also a favorite of children. It is a good dish to be served with chapati/roti or bread.

Paneer is an all-rounder when  it comes to the ways in which it can be eaten and tastes good. It is very good for health to since it is a very good source of protein, calcium and hence builds stronger teeth, bones etc. and prevents diseases.

Ingredients

• Paneer (cottage cheese) - 200 gms
• Tomato - 1 no(large)
• Onion - 1 no (large)
• Green chillies - 2 nos
• Ginger-Garlic paste - 1 tbsn (this can also be made by grinding ginger and garlic cloves together)
• Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Garam masala - 1/4 tsp
• Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Coriander leaves for garnishing
• salt as required

 Process

1.Crumble the paneer and keep it aside.
2. Chop the onions and tomatoes and green chillies

3.Take a pan and heat oil /butter /ghee and add cumin seeds and crackle them. 

4.Then add onions into the pan and saute. When the onions get  transclucent, add the ginger-garlic paste and green chillies.

5. After this add the chopped tomatoes into it and saute till it comes soft and cooks. 

Then add red chilly powder, turmeric powder, Garam masala, and mix it well.

6. Finally  add the crumble paneer and stir it well for 2 to 3 minutes. and don't cook the paneer as a long time as it lose it softness.. 

Finally add the coriander leaves to paneer burji  and mix well.
Serve with chapati/roti or bread. Serves 2... 

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Paneer Butter Masala (Cottage cheese cubes in tomato and spices gravy)

Hi friends!!

After a small break  I am back again…Now I have prepared for you, this special and typical Punjabi dish. Paneer butter masala !! 

This is the first north Indian dish in my blog. 
I think that everybody knows about  paneer - also called cottage cheese in english, and most of us like it... 

My hubbys favourite one. He likes a lot of such north indian dishes…

In my college days my brother told me about paneer… He also likes it… I heard from him about paneer… !!

So enjoy this dish which is one of the easiest to make 

Ingredients:

Paneer - 200 gms, cut into cubes 

Butter - 3 tablespoons

Oil - 1 tablespoon

Tomatoes - 5 medium

Onion - 1 no. medium

Bay Leaves  (Karuva Ella) - 1-2 nos.

Cloves (Grampu) - 2 nos.

Dried red chillies - 2 nos.

Cinnamon (Karuga Patta) - 1 - 2 nos of around 1 inch size

Coriander Seeds (malli) Crushed - 1 table spoon

Red Chilli Powder (preferably Kashmiri chilli powder) - 2 teaspoons

Ginger Paste - 1 tablespoon

Garlic Paste - 1 tablespoon

Coriander Powder - 1 teaspoon

Kasuri methi (Dry methi leaves / dry uluva chedi ela / dry vendaya keerai) - 1 teaspoon 

Fresh Cream - 2 tablespoons

Salt - to taste

Process:

Clean the onion and tomatoes and chop into small pieces. Keep it aside.

Take a frying pan and pour 2 tablespoons of butter and 1 teaspoon oil. 

Mixture ready to be pureed

Once hot, add bay leaves, red chillies, Cinnamon, Cloves and crushed Coriander seeds. Saute for a minute. After that add the chopped onion and stir fry for a minute and add ginger paste and garlic paste. Cook it for 1 minute. 

Then add coriander powder, red chilli powder and chopped tomatoes. Cook it on high flame and stir continuously to avoid the paste getting burnt at the bottom of the pan. Cook in flame till the oil leaves the masala. 

Then make a puree of the mixture using a blender or a mixie. Keep aside. 

Heat the remaining butter (one tablespoon) in a pan. Pour the puree into the pan and then add the paneer pieces into it and add salt. Add half a glass of water. Cook on a low flame for 5 minutes. 

Cream added to the final one

Sprinkle kasoori methi and mix lightly. 

Remove from heat and add cream in it.

Paneer butter masala is ready… Serves 4 members in a family…

Chapati served with Paneer Butter Masala

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