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Wednesday 20 February 2019

Paneer lababdar, How to prepare restaurant style paneer lababdar

Paneer lababdar is famous North Indian paneer curry which is creamy, aromatic, bit sweet and spicy curry. "Lababdar" - means a strong desire for something and a desire to indulge in it" (information from google). It's been one of my favourite paneer recipes from my early days of cooking. I tasted this paneer lababdar with butter naans in one of the North Indian restaurant @Bhuvaneswar. I fell in love with that red silky, creamy and smooth texture of gravy with grated paneer and paneer pieces. Do not be scared of its name, just feel the taste of the curry😍😋.

Though we feel that the process is same as other gravy paneer curries, but trust me the gravy taste different more red silky and smooth. For this we boil tomato and other spices in water and grind it to smooth paste. Prepare this delicious gravy recipe for any parties at home with any flavoured rice items like - Jeera rice, peas pulao, Carrot rice, Kashmiri Pulao or even we can also have with parathas like Lachha parathas, naans. Today I had this with Jeera rice 😋.

Paneer Lababdar

Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cook Time : 20 minutes
Serves : 3 to 4 /1 bowl
Category : Paneer Recipes
Recipe Cuisine: North Indian
Main ingredients : Paneer
Author : ArunaSarasChandra

Ingredients

Paneer - 150 gms

For gravy

Tomato - 3(normal size)

Cashew nuts - 7
Ginger - 1/2 inch
Garlic - 3 to 4
Elachi - 2
Cloves - 2
Oil - 1/2 tsp
Water - 1 cup

For paneer lababdar

Butter - 2 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp
Onion - 1 cup(finely chopped)
Bay leaf - 1
Cinnamon stick - 1 inch
Green chilli - 1
Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam masala - 3/4 tsp
Kasuri Methi - 1 tsp
Coriander leaves - 3 tsp
Fresh cream/ malai/ megada - 1/2 to 3/4rth cup
Salt as per taste

Instructions

1) If paneer is in freezer keep it out, let it comes room temperature. Cut paneer into cubes. Keep some paneer aside for grating in gravy.

2) Add few drops of oil on non - tick pan and slightly fry paneer, take it into plate and keep it aside. (*check tip)

3)heat a pan with few drops of oil and add elachi, cloves fry it for a second. Then add tomato pieces, ginger, garlic and cashew nuts fry it for a second.

4) Now add 1 cup of water to the above.

5) Let the above boil.

6) boil till water evaporates and tomatoes becomes smooth. Let it cool and take it into mixer jar and grind it to smooth paste.

7) Add 1 tsp of butter + oil into heat pan and then add Cinnamon stick,bay leaf, green chilli, fry it for a second.

8) Then add onions and fry till it changes ( Here I missed adding onions I directly added spices. So I fried onion separately, but i will guide you in a proper way 🤗)

9) Now add turmeric, coriander, red chilli powder to the above and saute everything well.

10) Now add prepared tomato paste to the above.

11) Mix the above well, then add crushed kasuri Methi.

12) Mix everything well and fry it till oil oozes out as shown below.

13) Once gravy becomes thick then add 1 cup of water. (gravy will be in good red color )

14) Mix the above water and gravy well and then add required amount of salt.

15) Also add garam masala powder to the above.

16) Mixeverything well and add fried paneer cubes.

17) Grate paneer into the above.

18) Then add fresh cream to the above.

19) Mix the above smoothly, if need adjust water accordingly( *check tip). And cook it on low flames for 5 to 7 minutes and garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

Delicious, creamy and smooth paneer lababdar is ready to serve 😋😋. Add 1 tsp of Butter and grate paneer on gravy before serving it gives good taste and looks awsome too 👌👌.

As I mentioned I had this paneer lababdar with Jeera rice. It's very good combination, must try it and enjoy your day with your friends and family 😍❤️.

Note

* Adjust spices accordingly.

* we can also add onions in gravy preparation(step - 3) . For that you need to fry onion with other ingredients and then add water. Otherwise gravy flavour will change.

Tips

** Paneer lababdar gravy tastes rich when we grate paneer in it. If you forgot to keep some paneer aside, no probs still gravy taste delicious.

** We can also prepare it in no onion, no garlic catogery.

** Fry paneer on non - stick otherwise it will stick to pan.

** Frying paneer is optional, paneer tends to be so smooth it will break easily so we fry it lightly.

** Gravy becomes thick quickly after preparation. If you are planning to serve lately then adjust water and heat it once. Do not mix roughly, paneer will break.

** Add butter and grate paneer on gravy before serving in order to give restaurant paneer lababdar look 😍🤗.

Also ckeck other paneer curries, gravies and pulao/biryani recipes by clicking the link below the pic..

Malai Matar paneer

Hyderabadi Mirchi ka salan

Punjabi Dum aloo

Kaju curry

paneer butter masala

Kadai Paneer

khova paneer

Stuffed paneer capsicum

Jeera rice

Carrot Rice

Peas Pulao

Potato Spring Onion Fry

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Monday 18 February 2019

Jeera Rice, no onion, no garlic jeera rice, How to prepare Jeera rice.

Today's recipe jeera rice is one pot rice dish, which can be prepared easily in jiffy. Jeera rice is aromatic, fluffy and very tasty. Generally jeera rice is prepared with long grain basmathi rice, jeera/cumin seeds,some basic spices and ghee. We can also prepare with normal rice or even with left over rice using vegetable oil too.

Check this jeera rice in my youtube channel

https://youtu.be/GZVaTnMqvIQ

When you are planning to prepare any heavy curries, dal recipes then jeera rice goes well with that. Also we can pack it for lunch box, it taste aromatic and tasty without any side dish too.

Today's recipe comes under no onion, no garlic catogery.
Though there is no limit for adding onion and garlic, we can prepare Jeera rice in many variations and in many ways accordingly. Like first prepare rice and then prepare Jeera rice or by directly cooking rice with jeera and spices. We can prepare it in pressure cooker or in Kadai. We can also add veggies like carrot, beans to make jeera pulao. As you are all familiar whenever I plan paneer dishes I prefer to prepare simple pulao like peas pulao, Carrot rice. Today I had jeera rice with one of my fav paneer recipe that is panner lababdar(will post soon).

Got this star badge for jeera rice from IndiBlogger 💃

Jeera Rice

Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 1 bowl
Category : Rice items
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Main ingredients : Jeera
Author : ArunaSarasChandra

Ingredients

Basmathi rice - 1 1/2 glass

Water - 2 1/2 glass

Jeera/cumin seeds - 2 tsp

Green chilli - 3

ghee - 4 tsp or
vegetable oil - 3 tsp + 1 tsp ghee

Elachi - 3

Cloves - 3

Cinnamon stick - 1 inch

Bay leaf - 2

Cashew nuts - 7(optional)

Lemon juice - 3 drops

Salt as per taste

Coriander leaves - 2 tsp(chopped)

Onion - 1 roughly chopped (I did not added)

Instructions

1) Wash basmathi rice and soak it in enough water for 20 to 30 minutes. Slit green chillies in middle and keep it ready.

2) Later heat a pan add 3 tsp of ghee then add elachi, clove, Cinnamon stick/dalchini, bay leaf one after other let it fry for a second.

3) Now add cashew nuts fry it, when it starts changes color then add jeera/cumin seeds and fry till you get nice aroma and jeera changes color fry on medium to low flames.

4) Now add green chillies and fry it well. (If you want to add onion, add roughly chopped onions at this stage, fry till changes color).

5) Drain water completely from soaked basmathi rice and add it to the above.

6) saute/ mix the above once gently so that basmathi rice do not break. (** check tip)

7) Now add 2 1/2 glass water to the above.

2 1/2 glass

8) Add required amount of salt to the above.

9) Squeeze/add 3 to 4 drop of lemon juice to the above and mix it once gently. (**check tip)

10) Let the rice boil on high flames for 3 minutes or you get bubbles on water.

9) Then close the lid and cook it on low flames till rice cook fluffy. Then switch off the flames.

10) Now add remaining ghee and chopped coriander leaves, close the lid and rest it for 5 to 10 minutes.

That's it tasty and flavourful jeera rice is ready to serve 😋, serve it with any paneer curries like Malai Matar paneer, or any gravy recipes like Kaju Curry, Punjabi dum aloo, As I already told you I had this tasty flavoured jeera rice with paneer lababdar curry.

Note

* We can also use normal rice instead of basmathi rice.

* You can also use vegetable oil instead of ghee.

* Adding cashew nuts is optional but gives good taste to jeera rice.

Tips

** Soak basmathi rice for 20 - 30 minutes then use 2 1/2 glass of water. If you soak less than 20 minutes then use 3 glasses of water.

** Adding few drop of lemon juice cooks rice fluffy and gives good white color.

** If you add more amount of lemon juice then jeera rice taste changes so take care while adding lemon juice.

** Though using ghee is optional it gives good flavour and taste to rice.

** Frying basmathi rice will enhances the flavour of rice, point to remember is mix it smoothly, otherwise rice will break.

** After cooking rest the jeera rice for 5 to 10 so that rice will e fluffy.

**If you want cook basmati rice pressure cooker then cook for 2 whistles.

** If you want to use normal rice then cook for 3 whistles.

Also check other rice, paneer and gravy recipes by clicking the link below pic,

Carrot rice

Green Peas Pulao