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Veg Butter Masala

Veg Butter Masala is a vegetarian equivalent of butter chicken. You can add a wide range of vegetables as per availability to this dish including cauliflower, green peas, beans, carrots, sweet corn, baby corn, capsicum, mushrooms and so on. If you have even four of the mentioned vegetables it is fine. The exotic vegetables are optional. I generally make veg butter masala with cauliflower, carrots, green peas and beans. Some people do not like capsicums so you may avoid them. Some people are allergic to mushrooms, so you can replace it with cottage cheese. You can make Paneer Butter Masala too in the same fashion, replace vegetables with paneer(cottage cheese). You can mix and match the vegetables as per your choice and taste.

Ingredients

Cauliflower – 75 gms

Green Peas – 100 gms

Carrots – 75 gms

French Beans – 75 gms

Baby corn – 50 gms

Sweet corn – 100 gms

Capsicum – 50 gms

Onions – 2 nos, medium sized

Tomatoes- 2 nos, medium sized

Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 and 1/2 teaspoon

Cashewnuts – 20 nos

 Milk Cream – 1 cup

Garam Masala Powder –  ½ teaspoon

Red Chilly Powder – ½ teaspoon

Tomato Ketchup – 1 teaspoon

Sugar – 1 teaspoon

Butter – 2 tablespoons

Water – 2 cups

Salt – As per taste 

 

Method

Wash all vegetables and chop fine except green peas. Make a paste of onions and keep aside. Make a paste of tomatoes and cashews and keep aside. Heat butter/oil in a pan and add onion paste and fry till it becomes light brown, then add ginger garlic paste and fry for about 2 minutes. After this, add the tomato cashew paste and stir well for about 2-3 minutes. Add garam masala, red chilly powder, salt, sugar, tomato ketchup and stir well for 2- 3 minutes. Then add all the vegetables, stir well and add milk cream and a cup of water. Cover and cook for about 10 minutes on medium flame. Stir occasionally and add water if required. Veg butter masala is ready to be served and goes well with roti, chapatti or nan.

Note- This quantity is sufficient approximately for 4 persons. If you wish to make the dish more spicy, you can increase the quantity of chilly powder and garam masala. In restaurants, most places, a dash of kasoori methi(dried fenugreek) is added to these preparations.If you want to cut down on calories, you may use double quantity of milk in place of cream.
For Garam Masala, please refer to http://mymusings-sangita.blogspot.in/2015_01_01_archive.html