Weekend · Punjab
शाही पनीर
Shahi Paneer
The one you make for guests
Shahi means royal, and royal here means smooth. Everything hangs on passing the gravy through a sieve, which is the step everybody skips.
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Authentic Shahi Paneer preparation
Pihu
- Time
- 45 min
- Effort
- Steady
- Heat
Everything that goes in
सामग्री
- 400g paneer, cubed
- 2 onions, roughly chopped
- 12 cashews, soaked
- 3 tomatoes
- 3 tbsp cream
- 2 tbsp ghee
Plus these off the shelf
Serve with · Naan, or a jeera pulao.
Get the blendsMethod
- १BhunoOnion, cashew and tomato cooked down soft, then blended smooth and passed through a sieve.
- २StirBack on low heat with shahi paneer masala, and kashmiri mirchi for colour rather than heat.
- ३PourCream in off the heat, or it will split. Stir it through slowly.
- ४ChutkiKasuri methi crushed between your palms over the top. Paneer in last, off the heat.
The one thingPaneer goes in at the end. Boil it and you get rubber, every single time.
Saath mein banaate hain
आइए, साथ में बनाते हैं।
Cook it with him, step by step.
He works a real chulha — the vessel changes with the step, the flame comes up for a tadka, and you can hear the whole thing. Sound on.
भूनना· Bhuno
भूनते रहिए, रंग आने दीजिए।
Keep it moving. Let the colour come.
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Weekend · Punjab
Shahi Paneer
१
Bhuno · भूनना
Onion, cashew and tomato cooked down soft, then blended smooth and passed through a sieve.