Tawa Paneer is a spicy, masala packed side dish made by preparing a spiced onion, capsicum, tomato saucy mix and sautéing it with paneer. Tawa Paneer Masala is relished as side dish, appetizer and filler for rolls. Tawa Paneer makes weekend lunch / dinner special and the family craves for more.
Tawa Paneer Masala is one of the easiest and quickest sidedish that you can make that pairs well with roti and pulao.This Tawa Paneer is cooked in tawa and very easy easy and is not time consuming like other paneer recipes that requires lot of time and effort.
Tawa Paneer Masala is one of the popular dishes in restaurants too.
Tawa Paneer Masala is cooked on tawa but you can use a kadai or frying pan too if you don’t have a tawa. I have used my roti pan which has a flat base, you can use a tawa which has concave base too.
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Tawa Paneer | Tawa Paneer Masala
Ingredients
- 1 cup paneer cubed
- 1 no small sized big onion finely chopped
- 1/2 cup tomato puree just grind 2 medium sized tomatoes to a semi fine paste
- 1/3 cup capsicum cubed - I used coloured capsicum
- 1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- 3/4 teaspoon roasted jeera powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder
- 1 teaspoon kasoori methi
- 1 tablespoon coriander leaves
- salt to taste
To temper:
- 1 heaped teaspoon butter
- 1 teaspoon jeera
Instructions
- You first need a tawa for making this, dosa tawa will be fine. I used flat bottomed dosa tawa. Heat butter when it starts to melt, add jeera let it crackle.
- Add ginger garlic paste, sauté for a minute then add chopped onion, sauté till it becomes transparent.
- Add chopped capsicum, sauté for 2mins.Then add tomato puree.
- Give a quick mix, then add red chilli, roasted jeera and garam masala powders along with required salt.
- Cook until raw smell of tomatoes leave. It will become dry in few mins.
- Sprinkle little water then add paneer and toss it so that the masala coats the paneer well.
- Add crushed kasoori methi and chopped coriander leaves and switch off. Enjoy Tawa Paneer!
Notes
- The spice powders can be adjusted as per your liking.
- This is semi dry, you can make it more like gravy too. In that case add more tomato puree.
- I have used tomato puree here, you can use chopped tomato too.
Tawa Paneer Recipe Step by Step
- You first need a tawa for making this, dosa tawa will be fine.I used flat bottomed dosa tawa.Heat butter when it starts to melt,add jeera let it crackle.
- Add ginger garlic paste,saute for a minute then add chopped onion,saute till it becomes transparent.
- Add chopped capsicum,saute for 2mins.Then add tomato puree.
- Give a quick mix,then add red chilli,roasted jeera and garam masala powders along with required salt.
- Cook until raw smell of tomatoes leave. It will become dry in few mins.
- Sprinkle little water then add paneer and toss it so that the masala coats the paneer well.
- Add crushed kasoori methi and chopped coriander leaves and switch off.
Serve hot with rotis with a lemon wedge.
Enjoy with hot rotis.
Expert Tips
- The spice powders can be adjusted as per your liking.
- This is semi dry, you can make it more like gravy too. In that case add more tomato puree.
- I have used tomato puree here, you can use chopped tomato too.
Seethalakshmi Koravangat
Tawa paneer came out very well!! All of us enjoyed the delicious dish. This was served with puri and it turned out to be a wonderful combo.