Paneer & Broccoli Makhani !!!!

Makhani in hindi it means "with butter'.Makhnai belongs to Punjabi cuisine and is very rich gravy consisting  Tomatoes ,of lot of butter and cashew nuts paste,fresh cream  which gives it a royal touch.This gravy can be combined with different ingredients like Cottage cheese,Chicken,Black Lentil,Broccoli and other stuffs of your choice.Earlier i have posted chicken makhani you can have a look here as well for chicken makhnai recipe.http://cocinanispolina.blogspot.in/2015/07/chicken-makhani-recipe.html

Servings 4
Total Preparation time : 45 min
Cooking time : 20 min

Ingredients
250 gram Paneer Cubes(cottage cheese)
150 gram of broccoli florets(may be around 10 -15 florets blanched)
6 Medium size Tomatoes
10 Flakes of Garlic
1 Inch of Ginger
2 Onions
10-15 Cashew nuts
15 Pepper corns
1 small stick cinnamon
2 cardamom
3-4 cloves
1 Green chili
Butter for frying
Fresh cream
Kasuri Methi(dry leaves of fenugreek)
1 Tsp Kashmiri chili powder
Salt as per taste
Hot water for cooking

Method

• In Pan add roughly chopped tomatoes,onions,cashew nuts,ginger-garlic,pepper corns,cinnamon,cardamom,green chili .Add little hot water and cook all ingredients for about 5 min.
• Once little cooled down grind it into fine paste and keep it aside.On the other hand fry the paneer in little butter till golden brown and toss the broccoli in butter along with garlic chopped garlic.
• Than in another deep pan add butter,once melted add the ground paste .Add chili powder and salt .Allow it to cook on small flame till it starts boiling.Add required water to make thick gravy.
• Add the paneer and broccoli in boiling gravy.Stir well and again let it cook for about 2-3 min on slow Sim.
• Than add fresh cream in the gravy and the 2 pinch of kasuri methi and give it a quick stir and let it simmer for 2 min.Its done
• While serving serve fresh cream on top of the gravy along with small piece of butter.Happy Calories.