Butter Paneer Pizza
Butter Paneer Pizza has a creamy curry as the pizza sauce and is topped with pieces of spiced paneer. A great vegetarian pizza!
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 10 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
- 1.25 cup paneer cubes
- 4 large tomatoes [around 550 grams] (quartered)
- 2.25 cup water
- 4 green cardamom pods (crushed)
- 3 black peppercorns
- 2-3 clove 2-3 cloves
- 2 green chili (chopped)
- 3 tsp minced garlic and ginger
- 1 tsp kashmiri mirch powder
- 1 tsp kasuri methi (crushed)
- 1 tsp honey
- 1/8 cup milk
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 3 tbsp salted butter
- 1/4 tsp garam masala powder
- 3 tbsp chopped cilantro + more to sprinkle later
- salt (to taste)
Instructions
- 1
To a pan on medium heat, add quartered tomatoes, green chili, minced ginger and garlic, cloves, cardamom pods [I crush them and then add to the pan] and black peppercorns. Add water to it and mix.
- 2
Cook the mixture on medium heat for 15-20 minutes or till tomatoes are really all mushed up. You can also do this in a pressure cooker.
- 3
Switch off the flame, remove the cloves, peppercorn, and skin of the cardamom pods and puree the mixture using an immersion blender (like I did) or wait for the mixture to cool down a little and then puree in a regular blender.
- 4
Put the pan with the gravy on heat again. Add butter, salt and kashmiri red chili powder to it. The kashmiri red chili powder gives a beautiful red color to the gravy. Let the gravy simmer on low heat for 10 minutes.
- 5
Add milk, cream, honey and crushed kasuri methi. Give it a nice stir. Check the seasoning and adjust salt and chili to taste. You can always add some red chili powder if you want to up the spice levels.
- 6
Add chopped cilantro and mix.
- 7
Now add the cubed paneer pieces and mix. Sprinkle garam masala on top and mix. Cook for another 2 minutes and then remove pan from heat.
- 8
Spread the prepared butter paneer on your pizza crust. A good way to do this is to take only the gravy with a spoon and spread on the crust like you would spread your pizza sauce and then put the paneer cubes on top.
- 9
Sprinkle shredded mozzarella cheese all over.
- 10
Bake the pizza at 500 F degrees for 5 minutes, then turn the pan 180 degrees and bake for another 3-4 minutes or till the crust is lightly browned and the cheese is all melted and bubbly.
- 11
Sprinkle some more chopped cilantro on top and serve the butter paneer pizza immediately.