One of the most popular dishes in North India, this dish too has many variants. However..at the end of the day, it is indeed heaven to bite into succulent pieces of the capsicum matched with Paneer/Cottage Cheese, a match surely made in heaven. I share the recipe that I follow.
Ingredients (Serves 2 )
Cottage Cheese/Paneer 100 gm cut into 1-inch pieces
Tomato – 2 chopped fine
Ginger- 1 tsp finely grated
Green Chilli – 1 cut into two pieces
Tomato – 1 deseeded and cut into cubes
Onion- 1/2 cut into cubes
Capsicum – 1 cut into cubes
Salt to taste
Clarified butter/desi ghee – 2 tsp
Garam Masala – 1 tsp
Kasuri Methi – 1 tsp
Powder together
Red chilli as per taste and Coriander 1 Tsp dry roasted
3 cardamom, 3 cloves and an inch of cinnamon
Method
Take clarified butter in a pan and add the tomatoes and the ginger and saute until soft. Now add the cubed capsicum, tomato and onion and mix well. Add the powdered spices and saute for 2 mins. Now add the cubed cottage cheese, along with the garam masala, salt to taste and kasuri methi. mix well. Add a tbsp of water at this point so that all the spices mix well. Cook till totally dry. Kadhai Paneer ready to be served with phulkas.
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