Real African Dishes: [MC-AllEthnic-Recipes] Nigella Lawson's Muttar Paneer

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Muttar Paneer

Recipe By :Nigella Lawson
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : cheese curry
FoodTV Indian
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Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1/2 cup vegetable oil
8 ounces paneer -- cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 onion -- halved
2 cloves garlic -- roughly chopped
1 piece ginger -- (1 inch) roughly chopped
Sprinkling of salt
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon garam masala
2 packets frozen peas -- (10-ounce)
1 teaspoon tomato puree
1 cup vegetable stock
----Special equipment: food processor----

Heat the oil a large skillet and add the paneer cubes, in 2 batches, and fry
until they are golden. Remove the golden cubes to a double thickness of
kitchen towel. (It is possible to dry fry the paneer cubes in the pan with
no oil, to avoid the oil splashing you. Then continue with the recipe
below.)
Pour all but about 2 tablespoons of the oil out of the pan. Put the onion,
garlic cloves, and ginger into a food processor and blitz to a coarse pulp.
Fry gently for about 5 minutes with a sprinkling of salt. Stir in the garam
masala and turmeric and cook for another 2 minutes before adding the still
frozen peas.
Dissolve the tomato puree in the vegetable stock and pour over the contents
of the pan. Stir again and turn the heat down to low, cover with foil or a
lid and cook for 15 minutes, tasting to check that the peas are tender. You
can cook muttar paneer up to this stage, if you like, uncovering and then
reheating gently with the diced, oil-crisped cheese, or proceed directly
now.
In which case, take off the foil and add the paneer cubes to warm them
through before serving.

Recipe courtesy Nigella Lawson
Show: Nigella Feasts Episode: Spiced Up
Cook Time 30 min
Level Easy
Yield 8 servings
Times:Prep 10 min
Cook 30 min
Total:40 min

Cuisine:
"Indian"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 1316 Calories; 114g Fat (76.4%
calories from fat); 16g Protein; 63g Carbohydrate; 13g Dietary Fiber; 2mg
Cholesterol; 1815mg Sodium. Exchanges: 3 1/2 Grain(Starch); 2 Vegetable; 23
Fat.

Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0