Butter Paneer Pizza

• Produce

  • 3 tsp Garlic and ginger
  • 2 Green chili
  • 4 Tomatoes [around 550 grams, large

• Condiments

  • 1 tsp Honey

• Baking & Spices

  • 4 Cardamom pods, green
  • 3 tbsp Cilantro + more to sprinkle later
  • 2 Cloves
  • 1/4 tsp Garam masala, powder
  • 1 tsp Kasuri methi
  • 3 Peppercorns, black
  • 1 Salt

• Dairy

  • 3 tbsp Butter, salted
  • 1/4 cup Heavy cream
  • 1/8 cup Milk
  • 1 1/4 cups Paneer cubes

• Liquids

  • 2 1/4 cups Water

• Other

  • 1 teaspoon kashmiri mirch powder

Found on cookwithmanali.com

Description

Ingredients

• 1.25 cups paneer cubes
• 4 large tomatoes [around 550 grams] , quartered
• 2.25 cups water
• 4 green cardamom pods, crushed
• 3 black peppercorns
• 2-3 cloves
• 2 green chili, chopped
• 3 teaspoons minced garlic and ginger
• 1 teaspoon kashmiri mirch powder
• 1 teaspoon kasuri methi, crushed
• 1 teaspoon honey
• ⅛ cup milk
• ¼ cup heavy cream
• 3 tablespoons salted butter
• ¼ teaspoon garam masala powder
• 3 tablespoons chopped cilantro + more to sprinkle later
• salt, to taste

Directions

• To a pan on medium heat, add quartered tomatoes, green chili, minced ginger and garlic, cloves, cardamom pods [I crush them and then add to the pan] and black peppercorns. Add water to it and mix.
• Cook the mixture on medium heat for 15-20 minutes or till tomatoes are really all mushed up. You can also do this in a pressure cooker.
• Switch off the flame, remove the cloves, peppercorn, and skin of the cardamom pods and puree the mixture using an immersion blender (like I did) or wait for the mixture to cool down a little and then puree in a regular blender.
• Put the pan with the gravy on heat again. Add butter, salt and kashmiri red chili powder to it. The kashmiri red chili powder gives a beautiful red color to the gravy. Let the gravy simmer on low heat for 10 minutes.
• Add milk, cream, honey and crushed kasuri methi. Give it a nice stir. Check the seasoning and adjust salt and chili to taste. You can always add some red chili powder if you want to up the spice levels.
• Add chopped cilantro and mix.
• Now add the cubed paneer pieces and mix. Sprinkle garam masala on top and mix. Cook for another 2 minutes and then remove pan from heat.
• Spread the prepared butter paneer on your pizza crust. A good way to do this is to take only the gravy with a spoon and spread on the crust like you would spread your pizza sauce and then put the paneer cubes on top.
• Sprinkle shredded mozzarella cheese all over.
• Bake the pizza at 500 F degrees for 5 minutes, then turn the pan 180 degrees and bake for another 3-4 minutes or till the crust is lightly browned and the cheese is all melted and bubbly.
• Sprinkle some more chopped cilantro on top and serve the butter paneer pizza immediately.

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