Warm, richly spiced, and built for a satisfying meal, paneer jalfrezi recipe | how to make restaurant style paneer jalfrezi is a vegetarian Indian side dish made with oil, small onion, and ginger-garlic paste in about 20 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 10 minutes
- Total time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 3 Servings
- Category: Side Dish
- Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
for masala paste:
- 2 tsp oil
- 1 small onion (finely chopped)
- 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- ¼ tsp turmeric / haldi
- ½ tsp kashmiri red chilli powder / lal mirch powder
- 1 to mato (finely chopped)
- ½ tsp coriander powder
- ¼ tsp cumin powder
other ingredients:
- 2 tsp oil
- 1 dried red chilli (broken)
- inch ginger (cut julienne)
- ½ tsp cumin seeds / jeera
- ½ onion (thinly sliced)
- 1 tbsp tomato sauce
- ½ capsicum (sliced)
- salt to taste
- 8 pieces paneer / cottage cheese
- ½ to mato (thinly sliced)
- ¼ tsp garam masala powder
- 2 tsp lemon juice
Method
- firstly, heat oil and saute onions.
- further add ginger garlic paste and saute well.
- additionally add tomato and saute till they turn soft and mushy.
- furthermore add spice powder and saute.
- blend to smooth paste without adding any water. keep aside.
- now in the same kadai heat oil.
- add in dried red chilli, ginger julienne and cumin seeds. saute well.
- furthermore, add thinly sliced onion and saute for a minute.
- additionally, add sliced capsicum and continue to saute.
- add in prepare masala paste, tomato sauce and salt to taste. mix well.
- now add in paneer pieces and thinly sliced tomato. give a gentle mix.
- now add garam masala powder and lemon juice. mix gently.
- finally, serve paneer jalfrezi with rice, roti or naan.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.
