Paneer Butter Masala

Here is the restaurant like tasting paneer butter masala recipe. I have cooked this dish many times and shared with my friends and family. They all loved it. Please try and share your comments.

Recipe courtesy - My friend, Anitha Martin

Ingredients

Onion - 3 medium sized

Tomato - 3 medium sized

Ginger – 1 inch piece

Garlic – 5 cloves

Cardamom – 2

Chilli powder – 1 tea spoon

Coriander powder – ½ tea spoon

Garam masala powder – ¼ tea spoon

Turmeric powder - little (as shown in photo)

Kasuri Methi – 2 spoons

Cashew – 5 to 6

Butter – 2 spoons

Oil – 2 spoons

Paneer – ¼ kg
Sugar - 1 spoon

Method

Chop onion, ginger, tomato into fine pieces. Remove the outer layer of garlic. 
Keep rest of the ingredients handy so that you can cook without burning while cooking (to avoid wasting time searching ingredients too).

Chop the paneer into small cubes.

Heat the kadai and add the oil. Now add clove, cardomom and saute. Add onion, ginger, garlic and saute. Add salt, chilli powder, coriander powder and garam masala powder, turmeric powder and saute. Add kasuri methi, tomato, Cashew and saute. Allow it to cool for about 10 minutes. Now grind this into masala by adding some water. 

Heat a thick bottomed kadai add butter. When butter melts, add ground masala and chopped paneer pieces, salt and sugar and cook for about 10 mins.