If you get invited to an Indian house and they know that you are a vegetarian then expect at least one Paneer dish in the meal you are invited for.
What is Paneer
Paneer is a fresh, unaged, non-melting farmer cheese from India, also known as Indian cottage cheese. It’s the most popular vegetarian ingredient in the Indian subcontinent and you will find a huge variety of Paneer recipes in this region of the world. It’s a very tasty and versatile ingredient and can be used in everything - starters, curries, stir-fries, rice dishes, desserts, salads, bread, sandwiches….. whatever you can imagine.
Meaning of Do Pyaza recipes
In Hindi, ‘Do’ means 2 and pyaza or pyaz means onion. ‘Do pyaza’ here means that onion gets used in this dish in two different forms and stages. Not only Paneer is cooked in this way, but you will find a variety of do pyaza recipes in India like Chicken do pyaza, mushroom do pyaza, bhindi do pyaza, etc. Generally, a lot of onions are used in do pyaza recipes. Some of them are used to make an onion-ginger-garlic paste. This paste is used as the base to make do pyaza gravy. Remaining onions are diced, shallow fried and added to the recipe towards the final stage. It’s also a very easy to make recipe and the only major effort required is in peeling and chopping the onions.
How to make
Making paneer do pyaza is very easy, you just need to follow the steps given below:
How to serve
Paneer do Pyaza can be served in any major meal of the day. It can be served with naan or any other Indian bread. You can also enjoy it with a simple rice dish like jeera rice. This delicious paneer dish can also be wrapped in a roti, tortilla or any other wrap bread, toasted and enjoyed as a tasty vegetarian wrap.
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