Recipe: Perfect Restaurant style Paneer Butter Masala

Restaurant style Paneer Butter Masala.

You can have Restaurant style Paneer Butter Masala using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Restaurant style Paneer Butter Masala

1. You need 2 of Roughly chopped Onion(medium sized).
2. You need 3 of Roughly Chopped tomatoes(large sized).
3. Prepare 1 tbsp of Finely chopped Ginger(Adrak).
4. Prepare 2 small of Slit Green Chillies(Hari mirch).
5. You need 5-6 of Cashew nuts(kaju).
6. Prepare 4-5 of Almonds (badam).
7. It's 1 tbsp of Fresh cream.
8. Prepare 2 tbsp of Butter.
9. You need 1/2 inch of Cinnamon (Dalchini).
10. Prepare 2 of Green Cardamom(Choti Hari Elaichi).
11. It's 1 of Bay Leaf (Tej Patta).
12. You need 1 teaspoon of Red chilli powder.
13. Prepare 1/2 Teaspoon of Garam Masala.
14. Prepare 1/2 Teaspoon of Turmeric Powder (Haldi).
15. You need 1/2 Teaspoon of Coriander Powder (Dhania Powder).
16. It's 1 Teaspoon of Sugar/Honey.
17. Prepare to taste of Salt.
18. Prepare 1 tablespoon of Crushed Dry Fenugreek Leaves (Kasuri Methi).
19. Prepare 1 tbsp of Fresh Chopped Coriander Leaves for garnish.
20. It's as required of Water.
21. You need 1/2 tbsp of cooking oil.

Restaurant style Paneer Butter Masala instructions

1. To make the base for the "butter masala" - Take water in a pan, add roughly chopped onions, tomato, ginger, cloves, 1/2 tablespoon of butter, red chilli powder and slit 1 green chillies(it's optional, if you don't love green chillies then don't add)..
2. Add the cashew nuts and boil for 10-12 minutes, when onion changes the color and tomatoes becomes soft, mash it with the help of spatula, turn off the flame..
3. Then strain the concoction(discard bay leaf and cinnamon) and grind it into a puree with the stock(same water which we boil)..
4. Now take 1/2 tbsp butter with 1/2 tbsp of oil in a pan, put on slow flame...add red chilli powder, juvenile of ginger, 1 slit green chilli and 2 tablespoon of above puree with cubes of paneer....
5. Sauute the paneer with all, keep rest of the puree aside for later use..
6. Now add the rest of the onion tomato paste to the pan and add garam masala and turmeric powder to the mixture. Cook for a couple of minutes..
7. Also add some sugar or honey to the gravy. Adding Sugar is optional but it gives a nice taste to the gravy. You can also replace Sugar with honey..
8. Now add fresh cream to the gravy and mix everything well. The cream will give a richness to the gravy. If you want to skip it you can use a little bit of milk instead..
9. Sprinkle some crushed Dry Fenugreek Leaves (Kasuri Methi) and cook everything for 3-4 minutes..
10. Paneer Butter Masala is ready. You can garnish it with chopped coriander leaves or a drizzle of cream. Serve it hot with any Indian Bread like Naan, Missi Roti, Lachha Paratha or with some rice preparation like Jeera Rice..