Scrambled paneer pasta, pasta with scrambled cottage cheese
Author: PM (FavCounter)
Recipe type: Pasta
Serves: 2 people
Preparation time : 5 mins Cooking time : 25 mins Very delicious scrambled paneer pasta, ready to surprise you
Ingredients
Scrambled paner
Paneer - 100 gm, scrambled
Tomato / tamatar - 1 medium size, chopped
Onion / pyaz - 1 medium, chopped
Garam masala - 1 tsp
Lemon / nimbu - 1 tsp, juice
Butter - 1 tbsp, melted
Salt - as needed
Preparing gravy
Onion / pyaz - 1 small size, paste
Cumin / jeera - 1 tsp, powder
Black pepper / kali mirch - 1 tsp, powder
Red chili / lal mirch - 1 tsp, powder
Oil - as needed
Pasta cooking
Pasta - 200gm
Water - 2 cups
Salt - 2 tsp
Instructions
Scrambled paneer making
Heat butter in a cooking pot and add finely chopped onion, stir onion till turns to light borwn
Now add finely chopped ripe red tomato and cook till it releases extra butter
Now mashed paneer and add to cooking pot and mix with fried onion and tomato
Now cook paneer for 5 minutes and add garam masala, lemon juice
Cook pasta
Boil raw pasta in water for 10 minutes in medium flame
Preparing gravy for scrambled paneer pasta
Fry onion paste in a wok (use refined oil / sunflower oil)
Add cumin powder, black pepper powder, red chili powder and mix with onion paste
Fry till it releases oil and add half cup of water and boil for 3-4 minutes
Final cooking
Add boiled pasta in gravy and cook to adjust gravy
Now add scrambled paneer and mix properly with pasta
Switch of flame and take scrambled paneer pasta in serving plates and serve
Notes
Preserve water used for boiling pasta for further use in making gravy You can add fresh cream if you want to get creamy taste in this dish but it is optional Add red chili powder and black pepper powder according to your taste, if you do not prefer red chili then only use black pepper powder to make this dish
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