Vegetarian cooking look and tastes a lot more delicious,as the soft color of paneer heightens the colors of the other ingredients. Paneer not only look good, but tastesdelicious also. Paneer Pasanda is a rich paneer delicacy. Normally Paneer sandwiches filled with mashedpaneer filling and paneer sandwiches aredeep fried and served in rich curry. But I slightly modified the recipe like, Paneercubes are deep fried in oil and cooked in rich gravy masala. I omitted thesandwich part and made the recipe as simple.
Ingredients
Homemade OR Store Bought Paneer 400 gms
Green Capsicum 1 No
Salt To Taste
Pureed Big Tomatoes 2No.
Ginger Paste 1Tsp.
Green Chilies finely chopped 2 no.
Ghee 1 Tbsp.
Cooking Oil for Deep Frying
Masala Powder
Red Chili Powder 1 Tsp.
Garam Masala Powder 1Tsp.
Coriander powder ½ Tsp.
Fresh Cream 2 Tbsp.
For Paste
Cashew nuts 2 Tbsp.
Poppy Seed (Khus Khus) 1 Tbsp.
Green Cardamon 2 no.
For Seasoning:
Cinnamon Stick ½ no.
Bay Leaves 1no.
Raisins 1 Tbsp.
Method:
- Cut the Paneer into cubes, deep fry in oil till goldenbrown and drain and put into the cold water.
- Soak cashew nuts, poppy seeds and cardamom in half a cupof warm water for 20 minutes. When cashew nuts are soft, make a fine paste inthe blender. Keep aside.
- Heat the ghee, add all seasonings. Now add the gingerpaste, capsicum and green chilies. Fry it for 3 minutes in medium flame.
- Now add the paste and all masala powders and fry for a minute.
- Now add the tomato puree and cook till the oil separatesand gravy become thick
- Now add sugar, Fresh cream and salt and mix it well.
- Now add 1 cup of water and salt. Boil the curry for 5minutes.
- Now add fried paneer and cook for a couple of minutes.
- Paneer Pasanda is ready. Garnish with chopped corianderleaves.
- Delicious paneer Pasanda is ready to serve. Serve with Chapatti,Pulka and Nan.
- Note
Method of preparation to make the sandwiches- Keep about 50 gms paneer aside. This is for thefilling.
- Cut paneer into one and a half inch squares. Thepaneer pieces should not be more than a quarter inch thick.
- Now cut each square into two triangles
- finely chop the greenchilies.
- Now in the mashed paneer add salt, green chilies,chopped coriander leaves, raisins, finely chopped cashew nuts, and chaat masala. Mix them well.
- paneer squares cut into 2 triangles filling for paneerpasanda
- Now keep about 2 tsp filling evenly on one of thepaneer triangles and cover with the other paneer triangle. Press gently . Repeat with all thepaneer pieces.
- Take all purpose flour, salt, and chopped corianderleaves in a bowl. Add a little water at a time to make semi liquid batter.
- Heat oil in a wok on medium heat; dip the paneersandwiches in the flour paste and deep fry on medium heat until paneer is reddish brown. Drain and keep into kitchen paper.
- Now paneer sandwiches ready for Pasanda
Method of preparation to make the sandwiches
- Keep about 50 gms paneer aside. This is for thefilling.
- Cut paneer into one and a half inch squares. Thepaneer pieces should not be more than a quarter inch thick.
- Now cut each square into two triangles
- finely chop the greenchilies.
- Now in the mashed paneer add salt, green chilies,chopped coriander leaves, raisins, finely chopped cashew nuts, and chaat masala. Mix them well.
- paneer squares cut into 2 triangles filling for paneerpasanda
- Now keep about 2 tsp filling evenly on one of thepaneer triangles and cover with the other paneer triangle. Press gently . Repeat with all thepaneer pieces.
- Take all purpose flour, salt, and chopped corianderleaves in a bowl. Add a little water at a time to make semi liquid batter.
- Heat oil in a wok on medium heat; dip the paneersandwiches in the flour paste and deep fry on medium heat until paneer is reddish brown. Drain and keep into kitchen paper.
- Now paneer sandwiches ready for Pasanda
