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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:24

Paneer butter Masala

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Today I'm cooking my son's favorite dish. It's paneer butter masala. It's a very popular Indian dish. I'm going to try recording each swell as a single source step of the recipe and finally update this master with a photograph of the final product. So here we go

Indian cottage cheese curry - my son’s favorite

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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:20

1. Fry 2 onions chopped in a tbsp of olive oil

So the first step is to Fry a couple of onions cut small. You can hear it. In my walk. I take a tablespoon or so of olive oil. I've added the chopped onions and and I'm frying it here until they turn nice and Brown
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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:26

2. Add 2 tomatoes 🍅 chopped and fry well until soft

I'm now adding a couple of tomatoes. The onions are well fried. So now it's two tomatoes chopped being added to the same wok. You can hear it. Now I will Fry this until the the tomato blends well with the onion and becomes soft and then turn it off
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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:25

3. Cool and blend into a paste. No additional 💦 water when blending

What you hear now is silence. This is the onions and tomatoes now cooling down so that I can blend it. I'll let it cool down a bit, and then I'll add it to the blender and blend it into a nice paste. So I don't need you to hear the sound of the blender. But here is the sound of silence. And about five minutes from now, I will blend it into a nice sauce
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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 1:45

4. Melt butter, add a heaped tbsp of Garam masala and dried fenugreek leaf

It adds a lot of flavor to the sauce. Both these are right now simmering in the butter. You can hear it here. I allow it to get fried for half a minute or so
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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:29

5. Add the blended paste to the wok

Now that I have the fried spices, I'm adding my blended paste to the wok. I mix a little bit of water right now to get all the paste and out of my jar. You can hear it simmering nicely. It's
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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 1:11

7.Add paneer, peas, salt. Cover and cook in low heat for 20 mins

This is just to get some fiber in this, because otherwise I think it's just protein in here. So I like to get some fiber. So I add not too much, but just maybe a third of a small packet of green peas. And that's it. I add the salt and I cover and I Cook this for about 20 minutes. So I will post a photograph of this 20 minutes minutes from now, after it's well cooked
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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:23

Substitute paneer with fried chicken for the famous chicken butter masala

And I just wanted to say that sometimes my husband substitutes paneer with fried chicken cubes, he just fries, you know, cubed chicken separately. And right there you have the very famous is Indian butter Chicken. So the very same recipe just substitute panel with chicken. And you will have butter chicken in your hands
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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:18
I updated the Swell with the photograph. My kids enjoy this with plain white rice, but you can have it with any type of bread as well. I hope you enjoy making this dish as much as I do and eating it as much as mine. My son does. Happy cooking
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Taylor J
@Taylor · 0:26

Indian food is some of my favorite food in the world. Really enjoyed this!

So I really, really enjoyed this. I think that I'm going to have to try one of these days, both the recipe and just doing a swell recipe here for everybody to follow. I have I do not eat dairy products, but I'm sure I could figure out a way to make this pretty tasty. At any rate, looking forward to the next one
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Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 0:22
Hey Sudha, thank you for this post. My son loves Paneer Bhar masala and he is delighted to see his favorite dish on Swell and Taylor you could use tofu you could replace paneer with Tofu cubes, which are essentially soya. So happy cooking. Thanks Suda, for this post
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@Dwarak_V
Dwarak Varadarajan
@Dwarak_V · 0:20

@sudha mamThanks a lot for sharing. Its been very long time making the dish

Garlic NAN and butter NAN are the two main dishes. If we consider paneer butter masala. Oh, my God, thanks for sharing. It reminds me of this. It? S a great Indian dish that we need to try daily
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:07

Test and yum

Hey, Sudha, this sounds so delicious. I'm showing your swell cast to a bunch of wonderful people
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@michaelalex931
Michael Alex
@michaelalex931 · 0:07
A lot of food is a nice meal. I'm sure I don't know how to make that
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