Restaurant Style Panneer Butter Masala

Paneer Butter Masala is my most favorite gravy and we always order this whenever we visit any North Indian restaurant. I love it a lot and usually have it with Indian bread, like Kulcha or Butter Naan.This dish is ideal for parties and get-together so, dont miss preparing this restaurant style paneer butter masala at home. Paneer is basically cottage cheese, Indian version, and Paneer Butter Masala, is cottage cheese simmered in silky, creamy, rich tomate gravy, flavored by Indian spices. This dish is slightly sweet so make sure you mix and match it accordingly.

This recipe has a bit of fat and may not be ideal for calorie conscious but you can reduce the fat. For me though, I will not compromise the taste, thus I stuck to high fat milk and cream. Now, for the recipe : Blend 2 medium onion, 3-4 cloves of garlic and about one teaspoon of ginger. Cut the paneer into about one inch size cubes. I used about 250gm. Paneer is indian cottage cheese and taste a little bit like tofu. Slit 2 green chillies into have. 1/2 cup of fat filled milk and 2 tablespoon of cream is very important for this recipe, as well as 1 tin of tomato purée. As for dried ingredients, you would need fenugreek leaves (dried), 1 teaspoon of garam masala, red chilly powder and coriander powder.

Heat up your pan with oil and butter and the paste of onion, garlic and ginger and sautee until you sense the aroma. Then add on the tomato purée, and the dry ingredients. Let it simmer until you see the oil. Next add your chilly and milk and 1/2 cup of water in. Allow it to cook through until you are satisfied and then dunk in the paneer. Allow it to simmer, and of season it well with salt. Give it about 10mins and then stir in the cream. Look for silky consistency and take it off the stove. Here you 
go...restaurant style paneer butter masala.

I served mine with carrot pilav, made basmati rice and ghee and of course carrots, cucumber-tomato-chilly raita and spicy mint chutney, for a little bit of kick. No need to frequent the North Indian restaurant, no more...just DIY!