When you have plenty of Khoya/ Mawa at home and just don’t feel like making any sweet …. try this absolutely delightful Khoya Paneer with some home made butter Naan and treat yourself luxury! Khoya paneer, a perfect blend of evaporated milk and pureed onions, tomatoes and cashews when curried with cottage cheese chunks gives a royal treat and can easily be a show stopper in any party or occasion. Serve this creamy , rich curry with some fresh home made naan or even enjoy with some zeera rice and salad. A perfect dinner option when you have special guests at home.
Rich in protein , this dish will definitely you earn laurels and make you the master chef of your family. Try out the amazing recipe and share your experience with me here or on my Fb page at Spoon Fork And Food
Let us now proceed to check out the recipe ….
Prep Time | 10 minutes |
Cook Time | 20 minutes |
Servings |
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- 250 gms Cottage Cheese Paneer / Cubes
- 4 Tomatoes - pureed
- 2 Onion - medium chopped
- 1 tsp Ginger paste
- 1 tsp chili paste Green
- 1 cup Khoya Mawa Milk / / Evaporated - grated
- 8 Cashews - soaked or blanched
- 1 tsp Kasuri methi - crushed
- 1 1/2 tsp Coriander powder
- 1 tsp chili powder Red
- 1/2 tsp Garam masala powder
- 1/2 tsp Cumin powder
- 1 Bay leaf
- Salt - as needed
- 1 pinch Sugar
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 3 - 4 tbsps Butter Oil /
- fresh cream coriander For Garnish - and
Ingredients
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- Heat 1 tsp of butter in a pan and saute chopped onions along with soaked cashews till golden in color. Turn off the gas and allow it to cool. Once the mix is cool, transfer it to a mixer grinder jar and add little water and grind into a fine paste. Keep aside.
- In the same pan add grated khoya with 1-2 tsp of butter and fry til brown in color. Keep aside to cool.
- Heat oil/ butter in a wok and add bay leaf along with kasuri methi, ginger and green chili paste. Fry for few seconds.
- Now add the onion and cashew paste in the wok and fry well till you get the aroma.
- Now add pureed tomatoes along with coriander powder. red chili powder, garam masala and cumin powder and fry nicely till oil starts leaving the sides.
- Once the gravy starts to thicken ad in the khoya and stir well such that the khoya incorporates well.
- Season the curry with salt as required and a pinch of sugar and mix well.
- Add 1/2 a cup of milk to make the curry, give it a boil and then reduced the flames and allow the curry to cook for few minutes with lid closed.
- Once the curry is done, drop in the paneer cubes and gently mix the curry.
- Garnish the khoya paneer curry with a swirl of fresh cream on top along with some grated paneer and chopped coriander.
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Love : Shaheen
4 comments
It looks yummy
Gonna try it
I did try it, amazingly awesome. 🙂
Thanks for trying, happy you liked it 🙂
Hi, tried tis today, it was awesome 😋😋