Paneer Angara is a cottage cheese/paneer dish where it’s smoked for flavor.
Rich gravy with smoked paneer makes this dish a crowd pleaser. Now you can make a restaurant Style paneer Angara right at home very easily.
It’s ideal to prep all the ingredients before you start cooking paneer Angara masala.
Directions to make paneer Angara recipe-
Paneer Angara
Ingredients
For Onion Tomato gravy-
- 2-3 tbsp Oil
- 1 inch Cinnamon Stick
- 3-4 No Cloves
- 2-3 No Green cardamom
- 6-7 No Kashmiri Red Chilli
- 1 tsp Black Peppercorns
- 2-3 medium Onions chopped
- 6-7 No Garlic cloves
- 1 inch Ginger
- 1-2 No Green Chilli Optional
- 10 No Cashews
- 4-5 Large Tomatoes chopped
For main gravy
- 2 tbsp oil or ghee
- 1 tsp Jeera
- 1 No Tejpatta Bay Leaf
- 1 tsp Ginger Garlic paste
- Onion Tomato paste that we prepared
- 1 tbsp Red chilli powder
- 1 tbsp Coriander Powder
- 1 tsp Jeera Powder
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
- Salt to taste
- 250 gm Paneer
- 1 tsp Garam Masala
- 1/2 Cup Fresh Cream
- Coriander For Garnishing
For Smoking gravy
- 1 no charcoal
- 1 tsp ghee
Instructions
To Make onion tomato paste
- Heat oil and add whole spices on the slowest heat possible. As the oil heat so will the whole spices releasing flavor.
- Add onions and saute them well.
- Add ginger, garlic, green chillies and cashews and saute till cooked.
- Add Tomato and a little salt.
- Cook till tomatoes are soft. Once cooled blend into a fine paste.
- If you want you can strain also to remove any big pieces of whole spices.
For making gravy
- In a heavy bottom pan heat ghee. Add jeera, tej patta, ginger garlic paste. Cook for 30 sec.
- Add the onion tomato paste that we prepared earlier.
- Also add all the spices and cook for 5 min so that every thing is cooked properly.
- Now add the paneer cubes and fresh cream. Cook for another 2 mins.
- The gravy will be thick. If you want you can loosen it up with some water but I have not used.
- Now serve in a bowl.
To smoke
- Heat the charcoal on an open flame till its red hot.
- Place in a steel katori.
- Pour over the ghee and cover the lid and wait for 20 mins. Or you could even leave it as it is till there is no smoke.
- Remove the charcoal and garnish with coriander leaves.
I know these are a lot of steps and prep but trust me it will be all worth it in the end.
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Mouthwatering curry! I would love to try this recipe with tofu. I can imagine this will be best with cumin rice and naan!
Paneer Angara is packed with flavours, this smoky flavoured paneer with butter naan is just bliss!!
This sounds so delicious. I love every dish with smoky flavour. Can’t wait to make this for my family. Thanks for this recipe.
Wow, what a delicious and unique paneer recipe this is. Thanks for the detailed recipe, can’t wait to try it out soon.
Now I have a recipe to prepare restaurant style paneer angara at my own kitchen. Beautifully explained stepwise recipe . Also, thanks for sharing how to add the smoky flavor to the dish.
That is one delicious looking paneer angara. Love the smokey flavour of this creamy and flavourful dish. Now I know how to make it at home.
Thank you!
How a regular recipe can be twisted to unique one, this post is an example. There are many recipes in Indian cuisine which are smoked for flavours but paneer dish is less known. Thanks for sharing this.
Great, thanks!
It is a very unique name to this paneer dish. The smoky flavours with some naan or tandoori roti will be the best combination. I love the way the paneer is cooked in this recipe.
Thanks a lot!
Looks absolutely delicious. I love smoky flavors, be it sabzi or dal and this dish would taste amazing with some naan or roti.
Yes naan or tandoori roti would be awesome. Thanks dear☺️