Restaurants Style Shahi Paneer  With Hot Hot Puri

💁Shahi Paneer is cooked in a creamy gravy made of tomatoes, onions & cashew nuts. As the name suggests , Shahi Paneer literally means. Panner for the royalty .So it is cooked with these ingredients  that allocated a richness  to the dish.

💁Ingredients For Masala Paste

3 Tomatoes
2 onions
6-8 garlic cloves
1 inches chopped ginger
2 Green chillies
8-10 Cashewnuts
1 black cardamom
1 green cardamom
2 cloves
1 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder
1 /2 inche cinnamon stick
1 tbsp butter 🧈
Salt to taste

💁Ingredients For Seasoning

1 tbsp oil + 2 tbsp Butter 🧈
200 gm Paneer cubes
1 Bay leaf
1 tbsp Kasoori methi
1/2 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder
2 slit Green chillies
1 tbsp chopped Ginger
1🤌 pinch Sugar
2-3 tbsp fresh cream
Handful ✊of chopped coriander leaves
Salt to taste

💁Method

Take a pan add for the gravy mix all the roughly chopped ingredients & masala spices and cook till the tomatoes get mashy.

Strain the stock and keep aside.when cooled, make a paste of the cooked ingredients  adding 1 or 2 tsp of the strained 💦 water. make a fine smooth puree and strain it & keep aside.

Now Heat a pan add oil +🧈 butter. Add Bay leaf,  ginger chopped, slit green chillies and Kasoori methi saute for a few seconds till thr become  release their aroma in the oil add 1/2 tbsp kashmiri red chilli power 💁Add the ground masala paste and saute till the oil starts to leave & Zoom out from the sides of the pan.

Now add  the strained stock 💦 water.  salt  to taste and 🤌pinch sugar. Stir well and simmer for 10mins on a low flame or till the gravy looks thickens slightly.

Stir and add the 💁200 gm paneer Cubes &  fresh cream Simmer for 2-5 mins till the paneer is absorb the masala flavour and cook to a panner  coating consistency.

Remove from fire and then add fresh cream. stir and serve hot. Garnish it with some coriander leaves and fresh cream  💁Serve The Shahi Paneer Goes Well With Hot Hot Puris ,Jeera Rice 🍚 , Veg Pulao & Butter Naan.