Jhat Phat Sabzi (Bell Pepper Paneer)

Name: Jhat Phat Sabzi (Bell Pepper Paneer)
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 7.39 ml ghee or 7.39 ml unsalted butter; 236.59 ml panir, cubed; 4.92 ml ginger-garlic paste; 2.46 ml chili paste; 0.25 ml turmeric powder; 2.46 ml red chili powder; 4.92 ml coriander powder; 1 tomatoes, de-seeded and quartered; 1 yellow bell pepper, diced; 1 green bell pepper, diced; 2.46 ml kasuri methi (fenugreek leaves); 0.25 ml garam masala powder; salt; chopped fresh coriander (to garnish)

Submitted by Tea Girl

"This is a vegetarian dish made with the Indian cheese Paneer, it is fast, tasty and pretty. If you can't find it, don't substitute it, make it yourself! It is easy and cheap to make yourself. Here is a recipe for it: http://indian.food.com/recipe/paneer-fresh-cheese-46900"

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Ready In:: 25mins
Ingredients:: 14
Serves:: 4

ingredients

7.39 ml ghee or 7.39 ml unsalted butter
236.59 ml panir, cubed
4.92 ml ginger-garlic paste
2.46 ml chili paste
0.25 ml turmeric powder
2.46 ml red chili powder
4.92 ml coriander powder
1 tomatoes, de-seeded and quartered
1 yellow bell pepper, diced
1 green bell pepper, diced
2.46 ml kasuri methi (fenugreek leaves)
0.25 ml garam masala powder
salt
chopped fresh coriander (to garnish)

directions

Heat ghee in a large pan, add cubed paneer and saute for 2 minutes.
Remove the paneer from the heat and place paneer in warm water for 3 minutes, drain and keep aside.
In the same pan, add the ginger-garlic paste and chili paste and saute for 2 minutes.
Add turmeric powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder and combine.
Add the chopped bell peppers and cook till they turn slightly soft, about 5 minutes.
Add tomatoes and stir well to combine and cook for 7 minutes, with lid. Add the paneer cubes and toss the contents well and cook for 5 minutes. Add garam masala powder and kasuri methi and combine.
Finally, garnish with fresh coriander leaves and serve hot with naan bread.

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Reviews

By far the spiciest Indian recipe I tried during ZWT8, it was spicy but not harsh, and I went back for seconds. (Note that I generally avoid extreme spiciness.) My panir refused to stay in a neat cube, particularly after soaking in water, but that did not affect the taste, I don't think. (I had used Recipe#425229 to prepare the panir, and next time I would add another step to form the panir in a neat rectangle in a glass container and weight it down before using it for this recipe.) Made for The Wild Bunch for ZWT8 for its visit to India.

KateL
This swells really Indian and it's very easy to prepare. I'm lucky to have an Indian shop in town near the stations as for this recipe I really would use the suggested spices including the methi (fenugreek leaves witch I also used for decoration). Changes: I diced the bell peppers in big pieces and added some coriander as I love this in the dish as well. I wil do this again as my children loved it veeeeery much! Thanks a lot for the recipe.

Artandkitchen
Great recipe- sorry I couldn't get yellow capsicum/bell-pepper, so used one red and one green. Otherwise made as written, using all gluten-free ingredients to suit my needs. I really enjoyed this dish- simple to prepare and full of flavour.

Jubes

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Tea Girl

Thanks in advance if you are making any of my recipes, and I hope that you like them as I do. I grew up in the US, but I have spent most of the last few years in Europe now live in Germany, with my German husband. Much of the time that I have lived in Europe, I have lived in international student housing so I have lived with and cooked with people from all over world. I have also have had to learn to improvise a bit because it isn't always easy to get the foods I miss from the US here. My husband is a good cook and likes to cook when he has time, but he quite often makes what he knows, mainly German food. So I am the one feeding him strange things. :D My husband has recently taken up hunting so I am having to learn how to cook game: wild boar, deer, hares and geese are the most common things hunted here. It isn't easy to find things for wild boar so I am trying to publish ones that I find that we really liked. I like Recipezaar because I can easily find recipes for whatever I am in the mood, or whatever I happen to have laying around when I am too lazy to walk to the supermarket. :) I like trading tips with the people at the Asian and the German/Benelux forums, I lurk there mostly, but post when I have questions or think that I can help. My reviews are mainly 4 or 5 stars because I won't try anything that I don't think that I will like. 5 stars is it was great, will make again, only very minor changes were made, if any. 4 stars is it was very good, will probably make again, made some changes to adjust to my taste. 3 stars is it was okay, probably won't make again but I didn't really mind eating it. I haven't had anything here that I thought was lower than that, which is good with how picky I am. I'll try most new things if it sounds good, but I am not afraid to say if I don't like it. I quite often make my own recipes out of some of the ones I find here, and don't post recipe reviews if I radically changed it.

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