Paneer in creamy tomato and cardamom sauce

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 6
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 392.7
  • Total Fat: 34.6 g
  • Cholesterol: 78.6 mg
  • Sodium: 392.8 mg
  • Total Carbs: 16.2 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 4.9 g
  • Protein: 6.8 g

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Introduction

Recipe from Anjum Anand.The sauce would be good used with other veg or chicken. Sweet and creamy.
Serves 4 as a main or 8 as part of a menu.
Recipe from Anjum Anand.The sauce would be good used with other veg or chicken. Sweet and creamy.
Serves 4 as a main or 8 as part of a menu.

Number of Servings: 6

Ingredients

    6 tbsp ghee (or veg oil)
    2 medium onions, chopped
    5 large tomatoes, skinned and pureed (or use 2 x 400g tinned tomatoes)
    4 fat garlic cloves, pureed
    18 g fresh ginger, pureed
    12 black peppercorns, crushed
    seeds of 6 cardamom pods, crushed
    1 tbsp ground coriander
    1 heaped tbsp garam masala
    1 tsp chilli powder
    140 ml double cream
    450 g paneer, cut into 1" cubes
    coriander leaves to garnish

Tips

Serve with spinach sauteed with chilli, garlic and carom seeds (or a bit of thyme leaves) and coriander, when wilted stir in butter.


Directions

Heat the ghee and cook onions until brown around the edges.
Add tomatoes, garlic, ginger, spices and salt. Cook on medium/high 12-15 min.
Add cream, cook 1 min and add up to 500 ml water if needed.
Blend with stick blender until smooth.
Simmer 5 min, add paneer and cook 10 min.

Serving Size: 4-8

Number of Servings: 6

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user BIRGITTAUK.