KADHAI PANEER LAZAWAB

KADHAI PANEER LAZAWAB RECIPE

 Serves: 3                                                                                                                                       

 Time: 25minutes

Cottage Cheese or Paneer, as it is known in North India, is a very versatile ingredient for vegetarian cooking. Any preparation of Paneer is a great hit with meals involving rice or Indian Breads. In fact, even as a snack or a starter- dish, paneer has won hands down in any vegetarian menu!

Here we will mention a very popular recipe- ‘Kadhai Paneer Lazawaab’. It is very simple and not very time- consuming to make.

Ingredients:

Cottage Cheese/ Paneer- 250 grams (cut into 1 cm broad strips, approximately 3 inches long)

Onions- 4 large sized

Capsicums- 3 (cut into 1 cm broad strips)

Tomatoes- 4 medium sized

Garlic cloves- 5

Green chillies- 2

Bay leaves- 2

Cloves- 4

Cinnamon stick-1 piece (an inch long)

Green Cardamom- 2

Ginger- 1 piece (an inch long)

Red chilli powder- ½ teaspoon

Refined cooking oil- 2 tablespoons

Edible orange colour- 1 drop/ a pinch (if in powder form)

Salt- as per taste or 1 teaspoon (level)

Method:

Sauté the capsicum and cottage cheese/ paneer strips for a few minutes in 1 tablespoon cooking oil and then keep them aside.

Grind the tomatoes, onion, garlic, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, green cardamom, red chilli powder, salt and green chillies. In this ground paste, add the orange colour and mix well.

Heat a tablespoon of oil in a saucepan, and add the bay leaves to it. Immediately reduce the flame and add the ground paste to it. Cook this on a medium flame, until the oil starts separating.

Now, add the sautéed capsicum and cottage cheese strips. Cook on low flame for a few minutes, gently stirring in the mixture, so that it evenly coats the paneer and capsicum. After 3-4 minutes, remove from flame!!

Yeh lo!! Its ready to be served!!