For the second day, here is an easy breezy dish made of paneer flavoured with curry leaves. The spice paste is the most important element which adds to the flavour in an otherwise bland paneer. Most of the people love paneer because we don’t cook it regularly. But ask someone who eats it daily, they always tend to say that they hate paneer. But fortunately I still love my paneer and I think it is because of the fact that I introduce different flavours daily so that it becomes an interesting dish, not the regular boring food.
Paneer tends to go hard when you over cook it. So make sure that you add the spice paste as soon it starts browning in the sides. If you wait for a beautiful brown on the sides, it will be so hard to eat. I have stopped using pan for my paneer preparations and have been using a tawa instead. It is easier to manage, atleast for me. This is one filling meal. Do try and share your feedback.
Ingredients:
For The Spice Paste:
Curry Leaves – a handful
Coriander Leaves – 2 tbs
Mint Leaves – 1 tbs
Green Chilly – 2-3
Garlic – 2-3 cloves
Ginger – a small piece
Paneer – 200 gm
Ghee – 1 tbs
Himalayan Pink Salt – To Taste
Lemon – 1
Procedure:
In a mixer jar take all the spice paste ingredients and grind to a coarse mixture without adding water.
In a pan heat ghee and add cubed paneer and saute until the sides start browning.
Add in the curry leaves paste and mix it until all the cubes are coated with the paste.
Add salt to taste and cook for a minute or two.
Remove from stove, drizzle lemon juice on top and serve it immediately.
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Curry Leaves Paneer Recipe
Ingredients
For The Spice Paste
- Curry Leaves - a handful
- Coriander Leaves - 2 tbs
- Mint Leaves - 1 tbs
- Green Chilly - 2-3
- Garlic - 2-3 cloves
- Ginger - a small piece
- Paneer - 200 gm
- Ghee - 1 tbs
- Himalayan Pink Salt - To Taste
- Lemon - 1
Instructions
Procedure
- In a mixer jar take all the spice paste ingredients and grind to a coarse mixture without adding water.
- In a pan heat ghee and add cubed paneer and saute until the sides start browning.
- Add in the curry leaves paste and mix it until all the cubes are coated with the paste.
- Add salt to taste and cook for a minute or two.
- Remove from stove, drizzle lemon juice on top and serve it immediately.
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I am getting the aroma of the curry leaves right here ! That paste sounds very very flavourful , now I make a similar paste , minus the curry leaves .
I bet you don’t get bored because you change the flavour everyday plus you have a strong determination to loose , so naturally your take on the dishes is always positive . Kudos to your efforts .
Gayathri, those curry paneer looks so awesome!..I can imagine how sinful it must have tasted…and yes making the same dish on daily basis is so hard, great that you are able to manage with such interesting spices!
This is another lovely way to add curry leaves in our food.. So nice.. now that we can keep the curry leaves out and eat the remaining food!!
I never thought of curry leaves and paneer. Sounds so flavourful. My husband is a huge curry leaves fan. Maybe if I add it, he will like the paneer too. Bookmarking this. Kudos to your effort for so many different flavours with limited options!
Paneer is such a versatile ingredient to work on with. The curry leave paste sounds exotic and must have tasted fabulous coated with those pan fried paneer.
I have never even thought of this idea of pairing curry leaves with paneer. Just harvested a huge batch of curry leaves this evening. Maybe I should try this out!Looks superb Gayathri.
How to make exotic dishes out of simple everyday food we should learn from you. Love it.. I am itching to try it.
Can smell the aroma of this curry leaves paneer, how fantastic those cubes looks. Feel like finishing that whole plate rite now.
Love the flavor and paneer looks so tempting as bite snack.
That’s such a brilliant recipe with minimal effort! I am bookmarking this!!
A wonderful side for roti. Love those mint, coriander and curry leaves flavor. Amazing.
Yet another interesting version of panneer,must be a flavorful one..
Definitely a breezy recipe. This recipe tempts me to think about paleo diet
fusion dish comes alive with curry leaves – bookmarked to try ! totally yum 🙂
I never thought of a combination of curry leaves and paneer. The paneer looks lovely. Would be a nice side dish to the mixed rices. Will definitely try.
Made it today. Very easy recipe and even more tasty. Will be my regular dish while entertaining friends.