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An all time favorite north Indian dish, cooked in a rich tomato based gravy. The subtle blend of cardamom, dried fenugreek leaves and the cream add such an enhancing taste which can tingle your senses and palates.
Serve it with an Indian bread of your choice, though it digests and feels just right to the tummy when had with phulka’s.

Serves: 4 persons Cooking time: about 20 minutes Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 cups paneer cubes/ 250 grams ready paneer packet or Home Made Paneer
- 2 cups freshly pureed tomatoes (choose red tomatoes)
- ¼ cup thick cream (can substitute with low fat milk)
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon chopped ginger
- 3-4 cloves of garlic
- 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- ½ teaspoon cumin powder
- ½ teaspoon garam masala powder
- ½ teaspoon red chilli powder
- 1 tablespoon kasuri methi
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 1 tablespoon Vegetable/Sunflower oil
- Salt to taste
Method
If it is a store bought paneer; soak in hot salt water for about 1o minutes. This process makes the paneer soft and tasty.
Grind the onions, garlic and ginger into a fine paste.
Heat oil in a pan; sauté the onion paste. Once they turn mild golden color, turmeric powder, cumin powder, cardamom powder and sauté for a few seconds.
Add the tomato puree and simmer until the tomato puree thickens.
Add cream, honey and salt and simmer for another 10 minutes.
Drain the water from the paneer and add it to the above makhani. Add kasuri methi and simmer for few minutes.
Serve hot with an Indian bread of your choice.
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Other than that, it's a great recipe, I'm making this for the first time - as I write, actually - but so far it smells tremendous and I'm sure it'll taste even better! Thanks!
I typically use less of onions and infact most times avoid it as well. Tomatoes give it a nice flavor. There are different types of tomatoes, some varities are sour, some are nice,big, red and sweet and some others have a different form and after taste. Typically for this dish, we use the red tomatoes, the do have a slight sourness, but, nevertheless, a dash of sugar or honey complements it all and makes this dish delicious I hope I was able to answer your question.
Seen ur site for the first time
U doing gr8 job!!
what do mean by pureed tomatoes??
blend them raw or cooking before adding tomatoes??
generally i use equal amounts of onion and tomatoes. U r using more tomatoes? won't it make it very sour in taste??
Though I found chilli powder in the ingredients, did not find it in the recipe method...
Thanks Asha. We sure loved it :)
btw, u know what, avocado has the good fat which is essenial for body functioning! contrary to the myths propogated, any fruit in it's natural form is much better than those so called fat free processd foods...lol
enjoy...