Recipes - Paneer Babycorn Balchao
½ kg paneer
10-12 baby corns
2 medium onions
2 medium tomatoes
1 inch piece ginger
8-10 garlic flakes
10-12 whole red kashmiri chillies
1 tsp. cumin seeds
7-8 cloves
1 tsp. mustard seeds
1 inch stick cinnamon
Salt to taste
¼ cup vinegar
2 tbsp. oil
¼ cup tomato puree
1 tbsp. sugar
Method:
Wash and cut paneer into diamond shaped pieces and fry them slightly. Keep aside. Wash baby corns and boil them in water for 2-3 minutes, drain and cut into small pieces. Chop onions, tomatoes, ginger & garlic. Grind whole red chillies, garlic, ginger, cumin seeds, cloves, mustard seeds, cinnamon with vinegar to a fine paste. Heat oil in a pan, add onions and sauté till light brown, add tomatoes and cook for 5 min. stirring well. Add baby corns, tomato puree and ground masala. Cook for 5-10 minutes add sugar and salt to taste and mix well. Lastly add paneer pieces and cook for few minutes. Serve hot with naan or rotis.
Comment on this article
Jennet D'Souza, Bejai Mangalore
Thu, Feb 15 2018Tried this dish with half the quantity. Turned out excellent. Goes well with Rotis. Thanks for the recipe. Instead of Tomato puree, I ground the tomatoes and cooked them till raw small left. This is the only change I made in the recipe.