Recipe- Delicious Dhaba Style Paneer Curry

Quick Dhaba style Paneer curry, but with less Oil and in much healthier way. A quick and easy Dhaba style Paneer Masala curry recipe. Paneer curry has to be one of most ordered curry is Punjabi dhaba (roadside eateries on highways). If you love to travel and do frequent road side trip you know Dhaba plays a vital real in your eating out strategy.

Ingredients

2 Tbsp Ghee
1 Tsp Butter
2 bay leaves Tej Patta
1 cinnamon stick Dal Cheeni
2 Black Cardamon
1 Green Cardamon
2 cloves
150 g onions Chopped
1 Tsp Ginger Chopped
2 green chillies chopped
¼ cup yogurt
1 cup Tomatoes Puree
2 Tsp coriander powder
1 Tsp Cumin Powder
1 Tsp Red chilli powder
1 Tbsp Roasted Gram Flour
1 Tsp Turmeric Powder
to taste salt
250 g paneer

Method

- In a pan heat up the ghee and add bay leaf, cinnamon stick, black cardamom, Green cardamom, cloves and cumin.

- Fry them for 1 minute and add chopped onion and cook them till slightly brown in colour.

- Now add in chopped green chillies, turmeric powder and cumin powder, stir to combine.

- Add in curd or yogurt and cook for 4-5 minutes while stirring it continuously.

- Now add in Coriander powder, red chilli powder and salt. Mix well.

- Add fresh tomato puree and cook for 7-8 minutes on medium heat. Stir in between.

- When masala is cooked add roasted gram flour/besan and cook for 3-4 minutes.

- Add 1 cup of water (add more if you prefer thin gravy) and mix well. Bring the gravy to boil and add paneer which is cut into cubes.

- Cook the paneer in gravy for 5 minutes and add butter. Combine everything, switch off the heat and serve the Dhaba style paneer curry hot with Naan, chapati or paratha.