I have had Paneer Lehsuni Tikka many times in different restaurants and just loved the flavor of garlic with cottage cheese. Infact in this recipe, I have used garlic twice at different stages to enhance the flavor. The best part of the recipe is that instead of yoghurt you have a choice of adding coconut milk or just fresh cream. I however wanted to keep a check on the calorie hence preferred yoghurt and just a tea spoon of cream for the flavor.
This one dish as usual was loved by my son and as usual getting a green signal from him just makes all the effort worthwhile. Now Paneer Lehsuni also is a hassle free dish and doesn’t take much time, you however can use Paneer which are light shallow fried to enhance the texture of the dish. So here lets quickly get to the Paneer Lehsuni recipe.
- Paneer: 250gms
- Garlic: big 5 -6cloves chopped
- Ginger garlic paste: 1 tsp
- Onion: 1 medium chopped
- Tomato: 1 chopped
- Kasoori Methi: 1 tbsp
- Salt: as per taste
- Sugar: ½ tsp
- Turmeric powder: 1 tsp
- Cumin powder: 1 tsp
- Coriander powder: 1tsp
- Yoghurt: 2 tbsp
- Cream: 1 tsp
- Oil: 1 tbsp
- Heat oil in a wok and add finely chopped garlic and sauté till its golden.
- Now add onions and sauté till they too turn golden.
- Add tomatoes and sugar and cook till tomatoes turn soft.
- Add salt, turmeric, cumin powder, coriander powder and cook till masala leaves the sides and is cooked well.
- Now let the masala cool off and blend it in a paste.
- Add little oil in the wok and sauté kasoori methi and then add the masala and cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Now pour yoghurt and mix it well and then let it cook for another 2 to 3 minutes.
- Add little cream and mix paneer cubes and cook for 2 minutes before serving it hot with Roti or Naan.