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Homemade restaurant style paneer jalfrezi

July 12, 2018 By admin Leave a Comment

Paneer jalfrezi! It sounds like foreign cuisine, something absolutely different & special. Special spices will be added and some secret instructions must be followed to prepared this. What is your opinion about such name of a food? Did you ever hear about this? Did you taste this ever?

Jalfrezi sounds like a surname of an unknown region, haha. “Mr Jalfrezi is coming here.” 😀 Paneer is desi but before Jalfrezi it sounds something unknown. I think most people never heard of this food. Of-course if you are a real foodie and travel a lot & often try different cuisine, read many magazines, articles on food then you should know about this food. Otherwise, it is not a common paneer based food.

Homemade restaurant style paneer jalfrezi

I never heard about this paneer based food till 2010. I first time encountered with this food at a wedding reception party in Delhi. There were a lot of different paneer based dishes and paneer Jalfrezi was one of those items. I took one full spoon of that and tried it with peas rice. It was awesome. Then I tried this with kulcha too. I liked that too. I asked the person who was serving that food but I found he was clueless. Actually, I wanted to know the meaning of the food. But he did not know the meaning.

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After that, I forgot about the incident. But after a few years, I read somewhere about that food. I tried that myself at home to get that awesome taste but I failed. My first attempt was not successful. Then I tried to make restaurant-style paneer Jalfrezi at home but those were not satisfactorily but not bad also.

Till then I thought it was a North Indian dish. I never tried to find out the meaning of the name after the first time when I tried it in a wedding reception party. But a few days back I read a Wikipedia post on such food. Then I came to that it is not a typical North Indian dish rather it is more closer to Bengali cuisine. Here Jal means ‘Jhal’, a Bengali word which means hot/chilli or spicy. But frezi came from ‘parhezi’, a Persian word which means a suitable diet. I boost me to cook this restaurant style paneer jalfrezi again at home and the final result was excellent.

Restaurant style paneer Jalfrezi recipe

Homemade restaurant style paneer jalfrezi
 
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Preparation time: 12 mins Cooking time: 20 mins Delicious homemade paneer jalfrezi recipe
Author: PM (FavCounter)
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 3-4 people
Ingredients
  • 150 gm paneer
  • 1.5 capsicum, cut into long thin pieces
  • 1 carrot, cut into long thin pieces
  • 1 medium-size tomato, (remove seed) cut into long pieces
  • 2 small onion, cut into 4 pieces each, separate layers
  • 1 tbsp tomato puree
  • 2 tsp ginger paste
  • 1 tsp garlic paste
  • 1.5 tsp cumin powder
  • 1.5 tsp red chilli powder
  • Salt as needed
  • 1.5 tbsp oil for cooking
  • ½ cup water
Instructions
  1. Heat oil in a cooking pot, add ginger & garlic paste, saute till raw aroma goes away
  2. Add cumin powder, red chilli powder and salt, stir
  3. Now pour tomato puree and fry for next 2 mins over low fire, stir occasionally
  4. Add pieces of capsicum, carrot, tomato and onion, cook another 4-5 minutes
  5. Pour water, then stir and allow it to start boiling for next 2mins
  6. Then add medium size paneer cubes and again boil till gravy almost dried up
  7. Serve this paneer jalfrezi with roti or peas rice
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