My hubby as well as I both honey paneer. My hubby to a greater extent than than me ! The other evening, I had this abrupt urge to swallow paneer jalfrezi. This is a really uncomplicated as well as delicious dish that has bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, spices as well as of class paneer! It is unremarkably a dry out dish alongside really footling sauce, but at that topographic point create be versions alongside sauce. To me, Jalfrezi is dry out & flavorful.
Will you lot believe me if I say you lot that I made this dish inwards nether 15-20 minutes?? Yes, I did. When I say mortal that I did something inwards such a curt time, people honour it difficult to believe!! But it is possible!! The argue I tin brand a dish this quick is because I prep every bit I cook. While I pan fried the paneer, I got the vegetables I required out of the refrigerator. I chopped the onions as well as kept ready. While the pan was getting hot, I chopped my tomatoes. When I sautéed the onions, I chopped the bell peppers & the paneer as well as kept ready. When everything was inwards the pan as well as coming together, I fifty-fifty cleaned the kitchen! I made this dish as well as had dinner every bit I was doing my laundry.Of course, you lot cannot create it for all dishes as well as definitely this method may non live for everyone, but it industrial plant for me!! I made this dish as well as had dinner every bit I was doing my laundry.
Here is how to brand this super uncomplicated dish!!
Prep time: xv mins ( for those who prep)Cook time: 10minsTotal time: 25 mins
Ingredients:
Paneer ( Indian cottage cheese): 250 gms
Cooking oil: 1 tbsp + 1 tbsp
Cumin seeds: 1 tsp
Dried scarlet chillies: 3-4, broken into pieces.
Onion: 1 medium sized, diced large.
Ginger: 1 inch piece, sliced julienne
Tomato: 1 medium sized
Green bell pepper: 1
Red bell pepper: 1
Orange bell pepper: 1
Turmeric powder: 1 tsp
Garam masala powder: 1/4 tsp
Kasoori methi( dried fenugreek leaves): 1/2 tsp.
Vinegar: 1 tsp
Salt: to taste
Coriander leaves/cilantro: 1 tbsp, chopped for garnish.
Method:
Slice the paneer into bite-sized pieces. Sprinkle a footling chip of tabular array salt as well as live along aside.
Wash, deseed as well as spell the bell peppers as well as Lycopersicon esculentum into 1 cm thick slices.
Heat 1 tbsp crude inwards a skillet/ frying pan.
Place the paneer pieces inwards a unmarried layer. Fry it for 2-3 minutes on each side or until lightly golden.
Remove from the pan as well as live along aside.
To the same pan add together the other 1 tbsp oil. Heat on medium heat.
Add cumin seeds. Once they splutter, add together the turmeric powder, scarlet chillies, diced onion as well as ginger.
Sauté for 2 mins. Now add together the bell peppers, sauté for a minute.
Add the sliced Lycopersicon esculentum as well as sauté for a infinitesimal or two.
Add garam masala, salt, kasoori methi & vinegar. Mix well. Saute for a twosome of minutes until it all comes together.
Turn off the flame. Garnish alongside finely chopped cilantro.
Serve hot alongside rice/ roti( flatbread)/ poori ( fried flatbread) or exactly regular bread.
Enjoy!!
Cooking made easy:
Whenever you lot convey a block of paneer, cutting it into bite-size pieces, soak it for 10 mins inwards warm H2O that has a pinch of turmeric as well as a footling tabular array salt . Then pan youngster it until golden brown. You tin shop it inwards the freezer for hereafter use.
Tip for salubrious living:
Paneer is a nifty root of calcium for vegetarians.Food for thought:
One cannot as well as must non effort to erase the by exactly because it does non check the present. Golda Meir