Peas Pulav With Kadai Paneer

(Kadai Paneer in Kadai)

If you plan for a Quick Recipe, You can select this combo. as it can made with less effort and also it pleases you. For me it took 45 mins. well planning before in hand will reduce this to 30 mins.

Ingredients for Peas Pulav:

Peas                                                                                                                  1/2 cup

Rice                                                                                                                   2 cups

Anise                                                                                                                          1

Cumin+Clove Powder                                                                                 1/4 spoon

Pattai-1,      Cloves-2,      Bay Leaf-1

Onion                                                                                                                          1

Ginger+Garlic Paste- 1 spoon

Ghee                                                                                                               5 spoons

Cumin                                                                                                          1/4 spoon

Milk                                                                                                                 1/2 cup

Green chilli                                                                                                              1

Method:

Wash and soak the Rice for 3o mins. Now In a thick bottommed Pressure Cooker,add 2 spoons of ghee. heat the ghee and add star anice, cumin, pattai, lavang, bay leaf. now add the slice onions and fry it well. let the smell come. now add slitted Green chilli and fry it. add ginger garlic paste and saute it well. now add the drained Rice and mix well with the ingredients in the cooker. add peas now and mix well. you can add milk or coconut milk here at this point. I added milk. add sufficient water and pressure cook it for 3 whistles.

Kadai Paneer:

Ingredients:

 Paneer- 8 cubes

 Red Onion-1

 Tomatoes-2

 Corriander Leaves- a fistfull

 Turmeric powder- a pinch

 Chilli Powder- 1 spoon

 Butter-4 spoons

 Oil- 4 spoons

Method:

Fry the Paneer in Tava.
 need not add oil here to fry. frying it for few minutes will do. need not fry them on all sides. leave the fried paneer aside.

In a kadai, add oil and heat it. now add sliced onions fry it add sliced tomatoes fry it and add washed corriander leaves. fry them well. they should be transparent. now add little turmeric powder and salt. let them cool. grind them into a paste. (when corriander leaves are added..you can feel a nice smell..too sustain that smell..keap the kadai closed till it is done and cooled).

In a kadai. add oil, heat it and add the grinded paste. let them fried and add chilli powder. now mix well and add butter. leave the gravy in slow flame by closing it with a lid for 5 mins atleast. after 5 mins add the fried paneer cubes and mix well.

Garnish it with corriander leaves.

This gravy is best suited for chapathi's.

Peas Pulav with Star Anice is leading to Think Spice..Think Star Anice, an event by sunita.

check out the following link:http://sunitabhuyan.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-monthly-event-think-spice-think.html