Paneer is a soft milk made product. In eastern India it is also called as chhena (moist paneer). It is used to make various delicious dishes. You can add tomatoes, capsicum, palak, matar & other vegetables and Indian spices (masala) and enjoy tasty paneer dishes. Paneer recipes are very easy to make but you need little bit practice to make it better.

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You must have tried many paneer recipes at home or wanted to try. Here you can find 10 selected paneer dishes. Vegetarian people like these very much and have these very often at home as paneer is an important source of protein for them.

10 best paneer dishes – which paneer recipes you have tried?

Paneer masala

It is a rich and spicy dish. Tomatoes & capsicum are main ingredients along with several spices. It’s preferable with dry masala but some people like it with little gravy.

Shahi paneer

It’s most popular paneer dish. Fresh cream and butter give extra shine on its gravy. It’s very delicious and available at dhaba and restaurants in north India and other parts of India too.

Kadai paneer

Another spicy and favorite dish. People genrally love this with semi dried gravy but some people prefer spicy dry one too.

Palak paneer

It’s totally different paneer recipe in this list. This greenish tasty palak paneer is most preferable during winter. It’s very easy to cook and people love to have this with roti and naan. Combination of flavor of palak and paneer is very interesring. White paneer into green gravy will forcefully bring water into your mouth. 😀

Paneer butter masala

The difference between paneer masala and paneer butter butter masala is sweetness. Paneer masala is spicy and not sweet in taste but paneer butter masala is creamy and sweet in taste. Gerenally there is creamy & shiny gravy in paneer butter masala. But you can make it semi dried gravy if you like so.

Paneer pasanda

It’s a favorite paneer item of many people. It’s gravy is made of oinion, ginger, garlic and curd (dahi) along with some spices. Generally ghee is used to make this dish but if you are preparing this at home then you can reduce quantity of ghee by frying all ingredients in sunflower oil and add ghee separately when cooking is almost done.

Garlic paneer

Garlic paneer is not a main course dish, rather people like to have this as snacks or starter. Garlic is main ingredient of this recipe. You can try this with tea in the evening.

Matar paneer

Flavor of matar (peas) and paneer both create a different flavor in form of matar paneer. It’s a very popular dish. It is used to prepared during winter when fresh peas are available but now people make it throughout the day as frozen peas are easily available in departmental store throughout the year.

Paneer bhurji

It’s most easy to cook and it takes hardly 15 minutes to prepare this dish. You can use home made fresh paneer as you will scramble paneer to make paneer bhurji. People have this dish with roti & paratha.

Chili paneer

This is available in both dry and gravy versions. People like to have this with pulao, rice, roti, naan etc.

Identify this paneer dish and reply below…. 😀