Paneer With Mixed Vegetable Curry

Step by step procedure with appropriate picture to explain how to make Paneer With Mixed Vegetable Curry. This is a dry dish which goes well with roti or phulka. A healthy, nutritious as well as tasty main course recipe. This can be given in lunch box for kids or even for elders, as it won't spill out  and also easy to pack. I am a big fan of paneer/cottage cheese and my husband is fan of vegetable curry, so this Paneer With Mixed Vegetable Curry satisfies both of our taste buds. Briefly, we have to cook a whole lot of veggies, spice it up and toss in the paneer cubes. Scroll down to see the full procedure to prepare a tasteful and flavourful main course - Paneer With Mixed Vegetable Curry.

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Preparation time:  20 min
Cooking time: 25 min
Serves: 4
Category: Side-dish/Main Course
Recipe by: Vidhya

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Ingredients

(1 cup = 250ml)

Paneer/Cottage cheese = 200 grams

Vegetables

All the below vegetables chopped and measured approximately two cup.
Potato -1 Medium sized chopped

Carrot - 1 finely chopped

Beans - 8 nos finely chopped

Sweet Corn - a handful

Capsicum/Bell Pepper - 1 (1/2 portion of red and 1/2 portion of yellow bell pepper)

Apart from above mentioned vegetables I also added,

Onion - 1 Medium sized finely chopped

Tomato - 1 Big finely chopped

Green Chilli - 1 finely chopped

Ginger - 1 tsp finely chopped

Garlic - 1 tsp finely chopped

Spices

Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp

Chilli Powder - 3/4 tsp/As per your taste

Crushed black pepper - 1 tsp

Garam masala - 1 tsp

Coriander Powder - 1/2 tsp

Salt - As per your taste
Extra Virgin Olive oil - 2 tablespoon

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Method

• Wash all the vegetables thoroughly and chop. Chop onion, tomato, green chilli, ginger and garlic. And also cube the paneer.

  

  Chopped Vegetables

  

  Chopped Capsicum/Bell Pepper

  

  Onion, chilli, ginger and garlic

  

  Paneer Cubes

• Take a pan/kadai, add 2 tbsp of oilve oil, When oil becomes hot add onion, green chilli, ginger and garlic. Fry onion until it becomes golden brown and raw smell from ginger and garlic should go off.
  
  
• Add the chopped tomato and cook until it comes mushy.
  
• Add all the vegetables except capsicum. Stir it, sprinkle little water to avoid the veggies get burnt. Add 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.
  
• Close the pan with the lid and cook for 12 - 15 min. Stir occasionally. Sprinkle water if needed.
  
• Check whether the veggies are cooked.
  
• Then add the chopped capsicum and cook for a minute.
  
• Add the spices - 3/4 tsp chilli powder, 1 tsp pepper, 1 tsp garam masala powder, 1/2 tsp coriander powder and salt as per your taste. Give a stir and cook for 5 min.
  
• Now add the paneer cubes, gently stir and close the pan with the lid and cook for another 5 min in low heat.
  
  
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot the Paneer With Mixed Vegetable Curry with roti/phulka.
  
  

Note:

• You can add any vegetable of your choice like broccoli, cauliflower. And you can also replace corn with peas.
• Here I used fresh corn kernels. You can use even the frozen one.