When I started to follow Lina’s blog, this was the first post that I read via WP app was this rare recipe challenge. It was interesting and I saw only one was left out. I googled that recipe and found it’s a Mughal recipe popular in Pakistan and North India and it is prepared with meat. I thought of trying it with veggies and immediately signed up for the challenge and so here I am with the Vegetarian Version on the Pasanday Recipe. Jhuls from thenotsocreativecook.wordpress.com is the judge for this challenge. She is so creative and I love her recipes. She is not the not so creative cook. She is a creative cook. :-)
Wikipedia gave me an idea about the recipe and a little background. When I further explored I found there are two versions of this recipe – the Pakistani/North Indian one and the Hyderabadi one. I went through both and eventually ended up following the Wikipedia one. But before finalizing I found the recipes in allrecipes and also couple of recipes in urdu. Was trying the english translation and eventually settled with the Wikipedia version. It is a marinated and fried recipe. Instead of meat, I went with Paneer (of course) and also I had Tandoori Masala at home. So I substituted that in the place of individual masalas.
I prepared this as the dry curry. The great thing about this recipe is that you can also bake instead of shallow frying. But as I have already posted Baked Tandoori Paneer (I didn’t use the tandoori masala for this. Prepared this as chat paneer), I went with shallow frying. So this is what I did,
Ingredients:
- Paneer – One 10 oz pack
- Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp
- Tandoori Masala – 2 tsps
- Red Chilly Powder – 1 tsp
- Salt – 2 tsps
- Yogurt – ¾ cup
- Ginger Garlic Paste – 1tsp
- Besan – 2 tbsp
- Oil – 3 to 4 tbsps
- Onion – 1
Steps:
- Cut the paneer into small cubes.
- Chop the onions thinly.
- Add the yogurt and all the spices including salt to the paneer cubes and mix well.
- Let it sit for at least 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, drain the water if any (adding salt sometimes oozes out water) add the besan and mix well.
- Now heat the kadai and oil the oil.
- Add the onions and let it fry well.
- Make sure the heat is in medium and then add the marinated paneer.
- Let it fry and keep stirring it slowly.
- It takes around 20 minutes for the crust to form. I let it brown well.
- That’s it. Paneer pasanday is ready.
Notes:
- You can add tomatoes and make it gravy form also.
- As I mentioned you can bake this or you can deep fry the same.
Ingredients
- Paneer – One 10 oz pack
- Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp
- Tandoori Masala – 2 tsps
- Red Chilly Powder – 1 tsp
- Salt – 2 tsps
- Yogurt – ¾ cup
- Ginger Garlic Paste – 1tsp
- Besan – 2 tbsp
- Oil – 3 to 4 tbsps
- Onion - 1
Instructions
- Cut the paneer into small cubes.
- Chop the onions thinly.
- Add the yogurt and all the spices including salt to the paneer cubes and mix well.
- Let it sit for at least 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, drain the water if any (adding salt sometimes oozes out water) add the besan and mix well.
- Now heat the kadai and oil the oil.
- Add the onions and let it fry well.
- Make sure the heat is in medium and then add the marinated paneer.
- Let it fry and keep stirring it slowly.
- It takes around 20 minutes for the crust to form. I let it brown well.
- That’s it. Paneer pasanday is ready.
Notes
As I mentioned you can bake this or you can deep fry the same.
Lovely rendition dear! With the use of paneer I wouldn’t miss meat either :)
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Thanks Freda.
Wow Sri kalakita.. Grt dish
Thanks a lot Vidya
Vidhya, you did your job so well. I love that you made it vegetarian and you used paneer. This sounds like a very lovely dish. It is so fun to encounter a new dish and you do your research about it – it gives you and your readers new information about it and options about the recipe – it’s either they want it with meat or they want to make it vegetarian/vegan. What I also love about this dish is that when you said that you can bake it instead of shallow-frying.
I am happy to the judge for the first Rare Recipe Challenge and I am happy that you are a part of Lina’s unique challenge.
Looking forward to more recipes and awesomeness. :D
x Jhuls
PS: Thanks a lot for the kind words.
Thanks a lot Jhuls. Your comment made my day. Thanks for the detailed explanations. Loved it and it motivates me too. Looking forward for more rare recipes. :-) Hope to see you around.
Great recipe Sri.. I was waiting for you to come up with your own twist :)
Thanks GB. :-) :-)
Veggie Rocks! Glad you made it!
yup veggie rocks. :-) Thanks
Ah, this sounds lovely, and no, meat isn’t essential, from the list of great ingredients here. Good to get to know you!
Same here. Thanks for stopping by and for the wonderful comment.
WOW! This looks chatpata and brilliant idea. YUMMY!
Thankoooo :-)
It’s so nice to meet you through the Rare Recipe Challenge! Using paneer to make this dish vegetarian was so smart; I love paneer and don’t think I’d miss the meat at all! ~Jean
Thanks a lot Jean. Same here. Nice meeting you. Glad you liked the substitution.
Hey I just realised you haven’t added your link to my post. Others won’t be able to view your post! Use the blue thumbnail in this link to add your post.
https://lins239.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/rare-recipe-challenge-1/
Hi Lina, Thanks a lot for your feedback. Loved this challenge. As you mentioned I have include Jhul’s link and also added my post via the link tool. Let me know if I am missing something. Hopping to see others rare recipes.
Great! No everything is perfect! Thanks for participating! I loved having you in the challenge!
Beautiful idea! You have done a wonderful job with the Pasanday…a good research on it too! This is any day equal to meat…good choice of a substitution…Btw just add a link of one Jhuls’ posts, she is the judge for the challenge..ATB! I loved having you as a part of the challenge…great going!