Butter Paneer Pizza
10 standard portions
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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
- 1/8 cup milk
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 3 tablespoons salted butter
- 1/4 teaspoon garam masala powder
- 3 tablespoons chopped cilantro + more to sprinkle later
- salt (to taste)
Method
- 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.