Shahi Paneer Recipe

Last Updated On: Jan 22, 2025 by Aarthi

Shahi Paneer with step by step pictures. Delicious restaurant style shahi paneer recipe with creamy silky sauce is easy to make at home. It has few tricks and ingreidents to create the creamy texture. In this blog post, learn how to make Restaurant style Shahi Paneer with stepwise pictures.

Shahi means royal, a royal paneer dish with lots of cream, cashews, yogurt. It is pretty mild gravy which goes really well with rotis, specially naan.

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About Shahi Paneer

Shahi paneer is an Indian subcontinent paneer delicacy made with a thick sauce of cream, tomatoes, and Indian spices. This meal is made by emulsifying tomatoes, onions, crushed cashews, clarified butter, and cream into a curry, then adding paneer
cubes and a variety of spices. It originated in Mughlai cuisine (thus the term shahi in allusion to the royal title of Shahanshah in Mughal India).

Shahi Paneer is indeed a very old and popular food of India. This version uses simple recipe and technique to make shahi paneer. This version of shahi paneer turns out super creamy and delicious.

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Shahi Paneer Ingredients

Paneer – It is well known that paneer is an excellent source of protein. You can use homemade paneer or store bought paneer.

Onions – onions is boiled before grinding to reduce the potent flavour and create creamy sauce.

Tomatoes – tomatoes is pureed and added into the curry to make the sauce smooth and creamy.

Cashews & Cream – these two ingredients adds creamy texture to shahi paneer. It adds malai like flavour and taste so rich.

Spices – shahi paneer uses whole spices as well as few spice powders like chilli powder, garam masala powder.

How to Make Shahi Paneer (Stepwise Pictures)

take paneer

you can cut them into whatever size you like

take them in a pan with hot water..set aside so it stay soft

in a sauce pan, take water

add all the ingredients

cool them and take in a blender

puree till smooth

heat oil in a kadai

add whole spices

let them sizzle

add onion puree

cook till it starts to leave the sides

add chilli and garam masala powder

whisk yogurt well

add salt and sugar

simmer for few mins

coriander leaves

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