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[lady_karelia]

Just because I haven't done it in a loooooong while...

Paneer Curry

You can easily make the paneer cheese yourself, but if you're not so inclined, you'll find it at any Asian/Indian grocery as "paneer" and at any Mexican as "queso blanco". It's a kind of cheese that won't melt. You buy/make it as a ball-shaped cheese or buy it readily in cubes.

1 onion, finely chopped
1" ginger (or to taste), very finely chopped
3-4 chillies (or to taste), roughly chopped
1/2 small tin tomato paste
1/2 tin tomatoes (plum, chopped, whatever) or 2 medium-sized fresh
Salt, pepper, cumin, turmeric (haldi), pomegranate seed powder
Paneer cheese

Fry onion over medium heat. When it starts to brown, add ginger and chillies and fry for another 3-5 mins. Add tomato paste, stir well. Add spices, leave over medium heat for 5 mins, then add tomatoes and paneer. Fry approx. 10 mins over low heat. Serve with fresh lime juice and cilantro over rice or with pita or nan bread.

Bon Appétit

Comments

[sshg316.livejournal.com]

Yum! That sounds delicious! I think I'm going to have to attempt to make this sometime very soon.

[livingdeadgal.livejournal.com]

Weird. I was only thinking this week about how I haven't had any paneer since you used to make me it, and how I have to have a go at it myself. I was going to dig the recipe out, now I don't have to :)
I woul also like the recipe for something you made once when we came round for a party. Something with sweetcorn in, I think? Little balls of it, maybe? I can just remember really liking it. In fact, Blue Paris might have made it for you that time, now I think about it. I'm pretty sure we dipped them in something tomatoey, but that might just have been me. Any clue what I'm on about? *L*