PANEER MAKHANA CURRY RECIPE

Ingredients of this recipe:

• Heat clarified butter in a pan.
• Fry makhana in the ghee.
• Cut cottage cheese in samll pieces.
• Mince onion, tomato, garlic, ginger.
• Cut cashewnut in samll pieces.
• Soak poppy seeds in 1/4 cup of water.
• After 1 hour grind the soaked poppy seeds to a fine paste.
• Chop coriander leaves very finely.
• Heat clarified butter in a pan.
• Add onion, tomato, garlic, ginger paste and brown it, stirring continously.
• Add poppy seeds and fry for 2 minutes and then turn off the gas.
• To this mixture add makhana, cottage cheese, cream , salt, red chili pepper, turmeric, dried pudina leaves.
• Keep this mixture aside for half an hour.
• After half an hour put the pan on the flame and add milk.
• When it comes to a boil add 3 cups of water.
• Simmer it till the makahana are completely done and soft.
• Then add cashewnuts and garam masala.
• After 1 minute put the flame.
• Transfer the mixture to a dish and sprinkle some corainder on it.
• Serve it hot with nan, roti or parantha.

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