Famous Shahi Paneer

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Ingredients:

* 1. 250 Gms Paneer ( Cottage Cheese) cut into cubes

* 2. 1 Onion - Finely Chopped ( or grinded into a paste in a food processor)

* 3. 2 Green Chillies - Finely chopped

* 4. 1 teaspoon - ginger paste

* 5. 4 Tomatoes - finely chopped ( or blended into a puree in a food processor)

* 6. Cardmom powder ( 1/2 tea spoon ) only two pinches would be used in the curry

* 7. 1/4 cup beaten curd

* 8. 1/2 teaspoon red chilly powder

* 9. 1/2 teaspoon sugar

* 10. 1/4 cup milk

* 11. Oil for cooking 2 table spoons

Instructions:

* 1. Add oil in a fry pan and heat the oil

* 2. Add the onions and fry till brown.

* 3. Add Ginger paste, chillies and fry further for 2 minutes.

* 4. Add the tomatoes and fry further for 5 minutes or until the oil seperates .( You can see the oil coming out of the onion and tomatoes paste)

* 5. Remove from heat add the curd and mix.

* 6. Put back on heat

* 7. Add some water to it ( 1/2 cup)

* 8. Leave it to boil to a thick gravy. ( like melted icecream consistency)

* 9. Add some milk and the sugar and leave it on slow heat.

* 10. Add the cubes of Paneer.

* 11. If you wish you can garnish it with coriander leaves.

You can Famous Shahi Paneer with Heeng ( Asoeftida) before putting it into the gravy. Follow the instructions below to do that.Take a big pan, heat the pan and keep the paneer cubes in it , leave the centre of the pan empty , drop a tablespoon of oil in the centre and add a pinch of Heeng ( Asoeftida) powder and cover the pan with a tight fitting lid. You would see asoeftida smelling smoke coming out of the oil.

Leave the cover on for 5 minutes, you can switch off the heat. The idea is to let the smoke mingle with the paneer cubes. For more details http://www.indomunch.com