Season 1, Episode 3
Butter Paneer Masala
Potatoes & Green Beans, Basmati Rice and Honey Cinnamon Yogurt
Overview
With just three common vegetables from your garden, you can create this Indian feast for two in under one hour.
Butter paneer masala is definitely one of the top favorite dishes in northern India – it is the top favorite dish for Devin! The base of this dish is tomatoes, paneer & cashews. Lots of warm spices, butter and cream make for an amazing sauce you’ll want to cook again and again.
Know Your Ingredients
Mustard oil
Mustard oil, which is produced from the seeds of the mustard plant, is a common ingredient in Indian cuisine.
Known for its strong flavor, pungent aroma, and high smoke point, it’s often used for sautéing and stir-frying vegetables in many parts of the world.
Although pure mustard oil is banned for use as a vegetable oil in the United States, Canada, and Europe, it’s often applied topically and used as a massage oil, skin serum, and hair treatment.
To learn more about why it’s banned in some countries, click on the link below for more info.
Cloves
Cloves are the flower buds of the clove tree, an evergreen also known as Syzygium aromaticum
Found in both whole and ground forms, this versatile spice can be used to season Mughal curries, add flavor to hot beverages, and bring spicy warmth to cookies and cakes.
You may know cloves as one of the main ingredients in gingerbread baked goods or a staple spice in Indian cuisine.
Cloves are best known as a sweet and aromatic spice, but they have also been used in traditional medicine.
Indian Cinnamon
Cassia cinnamon comes from the Cinnamomum cassia tree, also called Cinnamomum aromaticum.
Cassia tends to be a dark brown-red color with thicker sticks and a rougher texture than Ceylon cinnamon.
Cassia cinnamon is considered lower quality. It is very cheap and is the type most commonly consumed around the world. Almost all cinnamon found in supermarkets is the cassia variety.
Cassia has long been used in cooking and in traditional Indian medicine. Roughly 95% of its oil is cinnamaldehyde, which gives cassia a very strong, spicy flavor
Ceylon, or “true cinnamon,” is native to Sri Lanka and southern parts of India.
It’s made from the inner bark of the Cinnamomum verum tree.
Fresh vegetables
This is literally the only vegetables you need to make this scrumptious feast at home – tomatoes, green beans, and potatoes. You could be growing this all, including the ginger, right in your home garden! What are you waiting for? Get to planting!
Creamy spiced masala
One of my favorite menus so far! It might even surpass my all time favorite curry, Shahi paneer, which we will be making soon! Shahi paneer is very similar, but sweeter and is a Mughal dish, meaning it was developed during the Muslim reign in India about 400 years ago.
