Hi FoodTube
My name is Maunika welcome to my kitchen, I'm showing you how to make a really simple
and really easy paneer Jalfrezi. It's a beautifully spiced
Indian cottage cheese stir fry with some fantastic flavours of cumin, chilli,
ginger and green peppers aswell. So we'll get started so I've got a heavy bottom pan
on medium heat I'm going to add a little bit of oil to that
and I'm going to our a good heaped teaspoon of cumin seeds
and I just need to slice my medium onion.
You want to saute the onions
and whilst those are frying away I'm just going to slice
two cloves of garlic as well.
It's really kind of taking on the flavour for the Jalfrezi so one
spice and one fresh ingredient at a time kind of
layers all the flavours through really, really nicely.
A Jalfrezi is inspired from the east
of India, Jal in Bengali means spicy
and this is a spicy dry fry dish. Okay the onions are softened
at this stage I'm going to add the spices, a pinch of turmeric,
a teaspoon of kashmiri chilli powder.
This has a really mild flavour in terms of heat.
I'm also adding nice heaped teaspoon of coriander powder.
You don't want your spices to burn so make sure the heat is medium to low.
I've got some shop bought paneer here,
it's almost like halloumi. I have actually soaked it in a little bit of warm water
It kind of makes it slightly spongey and really soft.
Along with that I've also got my pepper it gives a lovely crunch to the dish.
You want all the spices to coat the peppers really nicely.
Now at any point if you feel like
in the pan your heat is too high or the spices are burning slightly,
the best thing to do is just add a tiny splash of water.
And that works really well because that will help cook all the vegetables
but at the same time it will also make sure nothing's burning in the pan.
So the peppers are frying away really nicely and at this point I'm just going to chop up the paneer roughly.
It cooks very, very quickly,
so you want to make sure you don't cook it for more than two or three minutes.
Gently stir the paneer in.
It's nice and mild so it's actually absorbing the flavours really, really well.
I'm going to add one small tomato to it as well,
thinly sliced and along with that
an inch piece of fresh ginger.
So you don't need a lot just a few sort of slithers.
A bit of lemon juice just to squeeze on top and some fresh coriander.
So about a tablespoon I would say no more than that.
So it's done, you can see the paneer is nice and soft,
a really sort of spongy texture.
So that's your paneer jalfrezi complete and ready to serve.
And I'm just going to garnish it with a little more coriander and some fresh ginger.
I have some fresh parathas here so they're layered bread.
It's really good, you can actually taste all the textures,
the fresh peppers, the fresh ginger.
Nice mild heat of spices as well along with the Indian cottage cheese paneer.
Try it, taste it.
It's delicious and absolutely yummy.
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