Paneer Lababdar is a very popular Punjabi dish served in many restaurants. Paneer is scrambled and cooked in an onion tomato base.

“Lababdar” means a strong desire of something and complete surrender to it. Lababdar as a term is often attached to many dishes to signify complete surrender of one’s taste buds to that dish.

some of my paneer recipes are methi paneer bhurji curry, Paneer butter masala, Paneer korma, shahi anjeer paneer, and many more.

Paneer Lababdar – Pictorial directions:

Name: paneer lababdar
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup paneer; 1 medium tomato; 1/2 inch cinnamon; 2 no cloves; 1 no green cardamom; 1 no black cardamom; 1 large bay leaf; 1/2 tsp cumin seeds; 1 tsp ginger juveniles; 1 large onion (finely chopped); 2-3 cloves garlic (finely chopped); 1/4 tsp turmeric powder; 1/2 tsp chilli powder; 1 tsp coriander powder; salt to taste; 1/4 tsp sugar; 1 tbsp gram flour; 1/4 tsp garam masala; 1/4 tsp crushed kasuri methi; 1 slit green chilli

Boil Tomato, cinnamon, green cardamom, black cardamom and cloves in water. Grind to a paste (filtering out black cardamom)

Heat oil, put in bay leaf, cumin seeds and ginger juveniles

add chopped onion and garlic and saute well until pink

add tomato masala ground in first step and let the tomatoes cook for a minute on medium flame

add turmeric powder, coriander powder and chilli powder

once it forms a lump, add Besan flour/gram flour and mix well

Add water

add sugar and salt

Put in Paneer cubes, grated paneer and green chillies slit

mix well, close and cook until its boiling

open and add garam masala and crushed kasuri methi (not in pic)

Paneer Lababdar recipe:

paneer lababdar

Prep Time

5 mins

Cook Time

10 mins

Total Time

15 mins

paneer lababdar

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: North Indian

Servings: 4 servings

Author: Jinoo Jayakrishnan

Ingredients

1 cup paneer
1 medium tomato
1/2 inch cinnamon
2 no cloves
1 no green cardamom
1 no black cardamom
1 large bay leaf
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp ginger juveniles
1 large onion finely chopped
2-3 cloves garlic finely chopped
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp coriander powder
salt to taste
1/4 tsp sugar
1 tbsp gram flour
1/4 tsp garam masala
1/4 tsp crushed kasuri methi
1 slit green chilli

Instructions

Boil tomato, cardamom(green & black), cinnamon in water. when its rolling boil, put off strain and grind it to fine paste leaving out black cardamom
heat oil/ghee, put in cumin seeds, bay leaf, ginger juveniles.
add finely chopped onions and garlic. saute till onions are transparent
add the ground tomato masala and let it cook until raw smell goes off
add turmeric powder, coriander powder and chilli powder. mix well
when it forms a lump, add the gram flour and mix again.
add water, salt and sugar to it.
drop the grated paneer, paneer cubes and green chilli
close and cook in medium flame until rolling boil
open and add the garam masala and crushed kasuri methi. put off. serve hot with rotis.