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Friday, August 5, 2011

Paneer Lababdar

A very simple but tasty dish made of paneer in onion-tomato gravy. My younger daughter loves this dish with pudina paratha and the elder one with rice.

Ingredients (Serves 2-3)
Paneer (cottage cheese)------------ 1cup or 250gms
Cumin seeds (jeera)---------------- 1/2 tsp
Coriander seeds(dhania)------------ 1 tsp roasted and crushed
Red/Green Chillies----------------- 3
Fenugreek leaves(kasuri methi)----- 1/2tsp dried
Onions ---------------------------- 2 roughly chopped
Tomatoes -------------------------- 2 roughly chopped
Milk ------------------------------ 1 cup
Oil/ Ghee-------------------------- 2 tbsp
salt ----------------------------- to taste

Method
1. Take Ghee in a pan or kadhai. Heat the oil, add cumin seeds and Kasoori methi.
2. Add onions and fry until it turns golden brown.
3. Add tomatotes and chillies and fry it until the ghee is separated from the mixture.
4. Now add the coriander seeds and mix well.
5. When the onion-tomato mixture is cool. Put it in a blender and make pure.
6. Take this pure in a (same) pan and cook for 2-3 mins.
7. Add milk and salt and cook for 5 minutes.
8. Add Paneer and cover it.
9. Cook for 5-10 minutes.

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