Paneer Butter Masala (recipe) & Life Update!

First of all, before I get to this recipe for Paneer Butter Masala, can I just say how good it is to be back! In May my laptop crashed and required extensive repairs. While waiting for that to happen, I lost TriniGourmet in a server issue (that I still don’t fully understand). It took a while but we’re now on a new faster system, and hopefully -this time- the backup service will actually be functional! I lost my most recent posts but am still exploring ways to get them restored. Fingers crossed! Did I mention that during all of this my apartment was also almost completely flooded? Papayo!

Last week I returned to streaming on the Twitch platform, and the first dish I prepared was this Paneer Butter Masala,  (I also made Bhaji Rice and a Quick and Easy Instant Pot Flan -recipes forthcoming) with homemade paneer! If you’ve never made paneer from scratch I highly suggest that you give it a try! I fell in love with the dish Saag Paneer in my college days and missed it greatly upon returning home to Trinidad. How wonderful it is that so many continental Indian restaurants exist here now that offer this dish, and many others, featuring this mild creamy cheese. Still, they aren’t the cheapest to purchase and once you try making it yourself you may find that the extra effort is worth the outcome! The recipe/method that I return to time and time again for homemade paneer is this one. And, for the Paneer Butter Masala I used this recipe. I made the Instant Pot version, but the recipe comes with stovetop methods as well!

See y’all on my next stream, this Thursday at 11AM EST!