Pudina Paneer Recipe | Hariyali Paneer Recipe
Pudina Paneer Recipe is a flavorful dish made with paneer cooked in a spicy, aromatic mint-based gravy, perfect with roti or rice.
Ingredients
FOR MAKING MINT PASTE
- 1 cup packed fresh mint leaves
- 1/2 cup packed coriander (with stems)
- 4-5 green chilies
- Small piece of ginger
- 3-4 garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup water
OTHER INGREDIENTS
- 250 gram paneer (cut into cubes)
- 1 onion (chopped)
- 2 tomatoes tomato puree
- 2 tbsp curd
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- Salt to taste
- 1 tsp kasuri methi
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 tsp garam masala
Instructions
MAKING OF PASTE
- Add mint leaves, coriander, green chilies, ginger, garlic cloves and water in a grinder jar.
- Grind them to a smooth puree. Keep aside.
MAKING OF PUDINA PANEER
- Add oil in a pan and when it is hot, add cumin seeds.
- Let them splutter.
- Add onion and let it turn slightly brown.
- Add tomato puree, coriander powder and salt. Mix.
- Cook until oil separates.
- Add curd while mixing continuously otherwise it will curdle.
- Keep mixing until curd begins to boil. It will hardly take a minute.
- Now add mint coriander paste, which was made initially.
- Cook till oil separates.
- Add water and let a boil come.
- Add paneer cubes and mix well.
- Put a lid and cook for 2 minutes so that paneer absorbs all the flavours.
- Lastly add kasuri methi, garam masala and lemon juice.