Paneer Cashew Curry Recipe / Tomato Paneer Curry Recipe - Jain Style

This is how my life runs..I want to make a special cake and a muffin for this blog. I was thinking about that for the whole day. Then the next day, i woke up early, fed maha, prepared breakfast, after finishing breakfast, washed up the dishes, put maha to nap, prepared lunch, by which time lil one woke up, fed her again, had lunch, washed up the dishes again. Put maha to nap again, then finally decided to bake those goodies, before that i just laid on the bed thinking what to do! I felt like lying in the bed never felt this good and fall asleep instantly. When i woke up, maha is awake and sunlight has gone(LIGHT IS MUST FOR PHOTOGRAPHY).I feel like OH GOD, lets do that tomorrow(already 4 days passed like this! If you want to know what i decided to bake, it is a lemon drizzle cake and cranberry white chocolate muffins...

Okay now coming to this recipe..No Onion, No Garlic, Just 15 mins to make..How cool is that..This means, just grab few stuffs boil them, puree them, cook them, add few more stuffs, boil again, add some cubed paneer and you have a yummy paneer dish which taste as if you were slaving for hours over hot stove..Making curry cant get more simpler than this, plus it is so creamy without cream and so tasty without onions and garlic. You have to try this curry and tell me how it turned out..

Preparation Time : 5 mins

Cooking Time : 15 mins

Serves : 3 to 4

Ingredients:

Paneer / Indian Cottage Cheese - 200 grams cubed

Garam Masala Powder - 1 tsp

Kasuri Methi Leaves / Dried Fenugreek Leaves - 1 tsp

Oil - 1 tblspn

Shahi Jeera / Black Cumin - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Sugar - 1 tsp or adjust to taste

For Cooking & Grinding:

Tomatoes - 4 medium size chopped

Cashews - 15

Ginger - 2 inch piece peeled

Dry Red Chilli - 4 to 5

Method:

Take the grinding ingredients in a kadai. Add some water. Cover and cook for 5 mins. Once it is cooked, take them in blender and make into a fine puree.

Heat oil in the same kadai, add in shahi jeera and let them splatter.

Add in the pureed masala and some water along with salt and sugar. Mix well and bring it to a boil.

Once it reaches a boil, it will thicken. Now add in garam masala powder, kasuri methi leaves and mix well.

Add in paneer pieces and mix well.

Serve with hot roti or chapati..

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