Learn how to make butter paneer masala in fully microwave cooking. I learnt this gravy from my friend Sangeeta. She made this once when I visited her home.
She made this gravy with mushrooms. My son and I myself liked it so much and so I took the recipe from her. Tried myself after sometime.
The first two times it was flop. But then once I got a hang of the recipe, this has become one of the regular in my menu if I make rotis.
Even the guest who came here have told its really good 🙂 I was thinking for so long time for making this one in microwave oven.
To be true I was scared to try, but last night, I took this as a challenge and tried and the result was perfect!
Since the stepwise pictures are many I made it as a collage. If anybody wants to try this, and have any doubts, please feel free to contact me.
And I am assuring you that this will come out very nice 🙂 Just make sure to be around while cooking as different microwaves have different power, so cooking time varies.
There is also difference between microwave safe bowl and microwave safe cooking vessels. So make sure to use that is meant for cooking, not reheating ones.
Ingredients
| Paneer, cut into cubes | 1 cup, measure thawed |
| Onion | 1 |
| Tomato | 1 big |
| Ginger garlic paste | 1 tsp |
| cashew nuts | 10 |
| Milk | 1 & ¼ cup |
| Red chilli powder | 1 tsp |
| Garam masala powder | ½ tsp |
| Coriander powder | ¾ tsp |
| Turmeric | ¼ tsp |
| Salt | as needed |
| Coriander leaves | For garnishing |
To Temper:
| Ghee/butter/oil | 2 tablespoon (or less, Ur choice) |
| Cinnamon | 1 inch piece |
| Cardamom | 1 |
| Cloves | 1 |
Method
- Soak cashew nut in warm water for ½ an hour and grind to a smooth paste,keep aside.
- Boil water and add the paneer cubes( should get immersed in water) and keep closed till use.
- Remove the head part and tail part of the onion and dont peel off the skin, keep this in the microwave oven in high for 2 mins.
- Take it out and keep aside for(standing time 2 min),after it cools down, remove the skin and cut into cubes.
- Onion should have turned transparent and cooked well.
- Grind this with the tomato(chopped) to a smooth paste,keep a side.
- Take a teaspoon of oil,in a microwavable glass bowl and add the dry spices under the to temper table and heat it in the microwave oven in high for 2 minutes.
- Then carefully add the ground onion tomato paste,a tblsp of ghee,ginger garlic paste and stir well and cook this covered for 4 minutes in high power.
- Add all the powders and stir well and again cook in high for another 4 minutes,stir in between once to avoid burning in the sides of the vessel.
- Then again stir well and add the ground cashew paste,remaining oil/ghee/butter and cook for 2 mins in microwave high.
- Stir well and again cook for 2 mins,stirring in between once.
- Then add a half cup of milk little by little and stir carefully well,without forming any lumps.
- Then add another ½ cup milk and mix well and cook in high for 3 minutes.
- Stir well and add the remaining milk and cook in high for 2 minutes.
- Add the paneer cubes lastly, mix carefully and give a boil for 2 minutes in high power.
- Give a two minute standing time.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and transfer to serving bowl and serve with roties/pulav or parathas...!!!
| Always give standing time for things cooked in Microwave oven. Be careful when you touch the vessel,always use heat resistant gloves meant for ovens. Don't use microwave safe dishes, use microwave oven cookwares meant for cooking. There's a lot difference between microwavable safe and cookware. I did the whole process in microwave high power only,so who have basic microwave oven also can try this. Just adjust the cooking time,since each oven has its own settings...but the cooking time will be more or less that is around the mentioned time only. |
Maida dosai
This is my hubby's favorite,in fact my in-laws all like this. Maida is not too good for health,you can have this once in a while,no harm. Very easy to make with simple ingredients. My hubby will have this with sugar and curd!
If you are too health conscious, you can replace maida with wheat flour. Only thing is you have to add chopped onions to it as it would be too bland...or else you can mix 50/50 maida and wheat flour also and make this dosa.
Ingredients
| Maida/all purpose flour | 1 cup |
| Rice flour | ¼ cup |
| Curry leaves,coriander leaves | 1 sprig each |
| Jeera | 1 tsp |
| Salt | As needed |
Method:
| 1. |  | Mix all the ingredients above with required water. The consistency should be thin.(Slightly thicker than how we have for rava dosa) |
| 2. |  | Spread ½ teaspoon oil evenly on a hot tava and pour first in the outer circle then fill the inner part.(Should be thin) .Cook in medium flame. |
| 3. |  | Flip the dosa after 1 ½ minute. And cook for another minute the other side too. And after done transfer to the serving dish! |
| 4. |  | Serve with sambhar/chutney...or your choice of accompaniment:) Taste great even with sugar/curd!! |
Dershana
The Butter paneer masala really looks exotic and calls for a trial in my kitchen too!
Priya
Wow Microwave butter paneer masala looks gorgeous n prefect..happy they turned prefectly to u..will surely try soon..maida dosa with sambar makes me hungry...just drooling again over paneer masala..
Priti
Wow look so delicious....and creamy...the maida dosa is perfect..wonderful post
sowmya
wow..pbm in mw..nice recipe..looks yumm too..
jeyashrisuresh
really very much tempting.now only i have slowly started using micro wave. will surely try this
jeyashrisuresh
raji how can i contact u.ur mail id i couldnt find
jeyashrisuresh
hey sorry i got it. will mailu
Kitchen Flavours
Wow yummy recipes... Love the butter panner masala...
Adlak's tiny world
Two in one post gr8... creamy BPM and tasty dosas...
Happy cook
Wowo you made thesein the MW.
I must must start using my MW than just using to heat up things.
Love that maida dosa too.
Looks so beautiful.
Asha
Both dishes are so beautiful. I used MW to make a paneer dish too, came out very well and with lot less mess as well! :))
Gita's Kitchen
The paneer butter masala looks very creamy..all the dishes are so inviting 🙂
Laavanya
The paneer gravy looks so creamy and lovely... Maida dosa looks pretty.. i have only made wheat dosais before.. must try this sometime.
AnuSriram
Gravy looks spicy and creamy! Nice step by step instruction. Never tried making with microwave...
Dosa looks perfect and tempting.
Ramya's Mane Adige
paneer butter masala looks gorgeous!! loved the 2nd pic of it, with parathas. And maida dosa makes a wondeful breakfast, doesn't it?!?!? the stack of dosas looks sooo good!!!!
Jayashree
The paneer butter masala looks creamy and delicious. That's a nice, tearless way of sauteing onions.
Archy
Butter paneer looks so good.. can't believe this is made in microwave !!
Sunshinemom
Both the dishes look good and the second one is a great snap too!
Pavithra Kodical
Paneer masala and dosa look delicious and tempting..I dont think i would dare to cook in microwave..Great attempt by you 🙂
Vanamala
wowow lovely dishes...nice pics
Cham
Wow I don't know which one I like the most, great paneer and dosa looks so delicious too
Varsha Vipins
Oh..How did I miss your blog till now..Absolutely lovely...ordered..n gorgeous pics made me drool..:)loved the easy breezy paneer masala n Dosa..:)
Do visit my space too sometime..:)
soma
I think this is my forst time here. How did I miss? U have such a lovely place.
That preofessional looking paneer in the microwave is incredible! I love those maida dosas too. I'll try them out.
& thats indeed a very creative way to serve your coconut chutney!
Soma(www.ecurry.com)
Yasmeen
I like the step-by-step instructions with images,makes me wanna cook them right now,I just need to shop for some paneer 🙂
delhibelle
lovely recipe and fabulous pictures..just one question on the paneer recipe though, do u keep the cooking bowl covered during steps 9 to 16?Thanks so much
Daily Meals
Butter paneer masala looks yummy...Like the picture of maida dosa...
Maya
Paneer looks superb. The gravy looks rich and yummy. Dosas look perfect too..
RAKS KITCHEN
Thank you so much all for your lovely words! Its so encouraging for me:)
And I could see so many first time visitors also,thanks for dropping by and do visit again!
Rashmi-Delhi belle,
Indeed I did every thing covered, so that there will not be any spills/mess in the oven....
Vibaas
butter paneer masala in mw? i am all for it 🙂 Dosas look so lacy and beautiful. Very nice!
jayasree
Lovely step-by-step pics. Paneer masala looks very creamy. Dosas are very soft yet crisp.
Great entry for both the events.
Mahimaa's kitchen
those dosas look so soft and spongy and nicely folded and photographed.
LG
Very nice presentation Raks and also a good job done step by step pictorial presentation.
Shreya
great recipes! love the maida dosa and the pics:-)
Jaishree
Wow!paneer masala looks gorgeous N the maida dosa is perfect.Nice Pic with Lovely presentation:)
LG
An award for you on my blog 🙂
easycrafts
Paneer looks so creamy and inviting..Hope you liked the dosas..thanks for participating
Viki Xavier.
Never tried paneer masala in microwave. Love this idea:)
vidhas
Raji, both dishes looks awesome gal.Your pcitures are simply great , it is great idea to explain like this. I am going to try this wekend.
Archy
Hey,Its not whole green moong..
It is Whole Moth - they are smaller than green moong and light brownish in color.. You can find in any Indian grocery store !!
Nithya Praveen
Thats a perfect detailed descrption....awesome.Am drooling over the paneer:-)
DEESHA
yummy dish & I love the maida dosa .. very new to me
Superchef
love the way uve given step by step instructions with pics.. 🙂
vidhas
Somthing is waiting for you, kindly check it out.
Preety
hey loved both recipes will give surely dosa a try this weekend as i have all the ingredients on hand
Ramya Bala
YUM YUM YUM :)looks so yummy n perfect
Akal's Saappadu
Hello Rajeswari,
I love anything with Panneer, your Panneer Butter Masala looks absolutely yummy and rich with the cashew nuts. I'm not a big fan of microwave cooking, but that looks royal and tempting!
Thanks for the comment on the biscuits.
jayasri
hi,
I am so happy about ur comments on my recipes, you were my first blogger who left a comment, because I came to know about ur blog address, what fabulous photos u have, just today I went through ur blog, love to try ur recipes, all ur dishes look exotic in presentations, must be tounge twikling too!!, I would like to participate in blog events but do not know how to get about, as I am a very new blogger & need to learn lot of things in making my blog as u all have, I would sincerely guide me to improve its look & wish me luck in my blogging, I would like to thank u once again for seeing my blog.
TBC
I've never made an entire dish in the microwave...even my stove top version of PBM (if I ever got around to making one) would not look as good as this one made in a MW. Looks beautiful!
As for the maida dosa, I just have to try it. I'm always looking for instant dosas.:D
Meera upadhya
Hi today i saw ur blog first time.. i really liked ur detailed explainations and snaps wonderful.. one suggestion on maida dosa...we add sour curd/butter milk to the batter which enhances its colour , for kids we add 1 tsp of sugar.
Dhivya prasanna
not heard of maida dosa...wil try it today..luks yummy..
Shweta
very well presented butter paneer masala
Corporate to Kitchen
hey this is so simple & look so good. I am going to make this soon for breakfast.
Aru's space
Can i use mushroom instead of panner?
RAKS KITCHEN
Yes sure you can, comes out good.
Grit N Stitch
hi, where do u buy the paneer cube from? is dere any special name in english ? im from singapore also and ive never noticed it bfore
RAKS KITCHEN
I buy paneer from Mustafa. You can find it in frozen section. It can be called as Indian cottage cheese.
Jaadi
Tried Panner Butter Masala, and it came out very delicious.