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Today I am going to share a recipe of Cottage cheese Cooked with Butter and Creme which we call "Paneer Makhani" in India.

Paneer Makhani :

Paneer Makhani is one of the most popular dishes of India and is also found in every north Indian Restaurant. Paneer means Indian Cheese and Makhan means Butter, so Paneer Makhani means Indian cheese cooked with butter.

I don't say that this is made very quickly as it takes nearly around 45 minutes to be cooked. But, Once you make this recipe using every single ingredient I mentioned below in this blog, I can assure you that you won't regret investing time in it.

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Please note the Ingredients first :-

• Fresh Indian Cottage cheese (Paneer) - 300gm

• Tomato - 4
• Onion - 1
• Garlic Cloves - 14
• Ginger
• Green Chilli - 2

• Spices

• Cumin seeds - 1 Tbsp
• Coriander Powder - 1 Tbsp
• Salt to Taste
• Garam Masala - 1 Tbsp
• Turmeric Powder - 1/2 Tbsp

• Butter - 2 Tbsp
• Oil - 2 Tbsp
• Cream - 1 Tbsp
• Dried Fenugreek Leaves - 1 Tbsp

Now the Process

Take a cooking vessel and Pour 2 Tbsp of oil and heat it on medium flame for 3 Minutes.

Add Cumin seeds, Garlic, Ginger and Sliced Onion to the oil.

Add Roughly Sliced Tomato to the vessel and add little water also. Cook all the ingredients until tomato gets mushy.

Now as you can see the tomato gets mushy and left its skin, its time to switch off the gas and leave it to cool down so that we can grind the mixture and make a puree out of it.

Grind the mixture and make puree.

Now we are halfway of the process, its time to light up the gas again and I am using the same vessel and poring 2 Tbsp of butter as well.

Add puree to the vessel once butter melts and cook puree for 2 minutes.

Time to add spices to the gravy (Salt, Garam Masala, Coriander powder, Turmeric powder) and cook it for another 5 minutes.

Now add the main ingredient to the vessel that is Cootage cheese.

Here in India, we use Dried Fenugreek Leaves in 80% of our dishes to give it a creamy taste and texture. Add Dried Fenugreek Leaves to the gravy and cook it for 1 Minute.

This is the last step of the recipe where I am pouring homemade cream to the gravy to make this dish more creamy.

Paneer Makhani or Creamy Indian Cottage Cheese Gravy is ready to serve.

Best to serve it with Indian breads like chapati, lachcha Paratha or butter naan.

Thankyou