Try this super amazing dish Paneer Dahiwala for makhani chawal along with a sip of chilled jaljeera...This North Indian special curd based gravy gives you all the nutrients you need for the day besides enticing you with its tantalizing taste and alluring aroma. Just pair it up with any main course dish and enjoy each and every bit of it...
Take a large bowl and tip in a little mustard oil and add a little salt to it. Stir and add the measured quantities of red chili powder, turmeric powder and jeera powder and finally sprinkle some kasuri methi and jumble altogether. Let it rest for about ten to twenty minutes.
Just approximately after fifteen minutes, heat a saucepan and maintain the flame in low medium mode. Pour in two tablespoons of mustard oil and when it is heated, just drop in the marinated paneer cubes gently and shallow fry for a minute or two. When the paneer cubes turn light golden brown, just flip to the other side and let it remain for a while before you turn off the flame.
Before you do the tempering, just make the cashew paste which you may require for the richness and thickening of the dahi wala paneer. Soak a few cashew nuts and melon seeds in warm water for about ten minutes. When it cools down, transfer it to a blender and make a smooth paste out of it and keep aside.
Heat the same saucepan again (after taking out the fried oil) and tip in a teaspoon of mustard oil again and when it is heated, just throw a roughly torn green chili in to it. Lower the flame and take a cup of curd and plop in two teaspoons of cashew paste and mingle. Then add the red chili powder and the coriander powder and whisk for a second and pour into the saucepan with a nice stir. At last, add a little sugar and allow it to cook for a while. Sprinkle the required salt and adjust the consistency of the gravy with the required water. When it starts to thicken and when the flavor comes out just turn off the flame. Now the soothing dahi wala paneer is ready to serve.
Garnish with some wild green coriander leaves and serve hot for rice or roti.