Beef Barley Soup

A true winter warmer – Beef barley soup has tender beef chunks, barley, and veggies in an aromatic thick broth. This delicious soup is a hearty, nutritious, and wholesome meal for chilly days.

Beef barley soup is a one-pot dish for cold winters. Serve it with some bread to make a wholesome meal. The chuck cubes are browned and cooked along with the rest of the soup to become tender and impart their flavor to everything. Barley makes the soup fulfilling and nutritious. You can get creative with the added vegetables in this like most soups. Add carrots and also mushrooms for their rich flavor.

This season calls for soups. While you can enjoy soups at other times too, winter just makes you crave a hot, brimming soup. It really helps when you have at least a dozen of soup recipes in your arsenal. These winter soup recipes will keep you warm and cozy – Creamy Tomato Tortellini Soup, Classic French Onion Soup, Healthy Vegetable Soup, and Red Lentil Soup With Spinach.

Paneer Butter Masala Recipe

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Paneer Butter Masala Recipe is one of India’s most popular paneer preparation. This restaurant style recipe with soft paneer cubes dunked in a creamy, lightly spiced tomato sauce or gravy is a best one that I have been making for a long time. This rich dish is best served with roti or chapati, paratha, naan or rumali roti.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4 people

Calories 307 kcal

Equipment

• 1 Pressure Cooker

Ingredients

  

• 18 to 20  cashews whole
• ⅓  cup hot water for soaking cashews

For Tomato Puree

• 2 cup diced, or 300 grams tomatoes or 4 to 5 medium sized, pureed

For Ginger-Garlic Paste

• 1  inch ginger  peeled and roughly chopped
• 3 to 4 garlic cloves small to medium-sized, peeled

Instructions

 

• Soak cashews in a hot water for 20 to 30 minutes. When the cashews are soaking, you can prep the other ingredients like chopping tomatoes, preparing ginger-garlic paste, slicing paneer etc.
• Then drain and add the soaked cashews in a blender or mixer-grinder.
• Add 2 to 3 tablespoons water and blend to a smooth and fine paste without any tiny bits or chunks of cashews.
• In the same blender add the roughly chopped tomatoes. No need to blanch the tomatoes before blending.
• Blend to a smooth tomato puree. Set aside. Don’t add any water while blending the tomatoes.

Making Tomato Gravy

Melt butter in a pan on a low heat. Add tej patta and fry for 2 to 3 seconds or till the oil become fragrant.

• Add ginger-garlic paste and sauté for about 10 to 12 seconds till the raw aroma disappears.
• Add the tomato puree and stir well. Cook for 5 to 6 minutes stirring a few times.

Notes

1. Butter: Use good quality butter. You can add both unsalted or salted butter. Also both yellow butter or white butter can be added.
2. Tomatoes: It is best to use fresh, ripe red tomatoes. Add tomatoes which have sweet-tangy taste. Do not add tomatoes which are too sour or tart. 
3. Tomato puree: Blend the tomatoes to a smooth puree. If you want you can strain the tomato puree also. 
4. Cashew paste: To blend cashews to a fine consistency, it is better to soak them in hot water for 20 to 30 minutes. Use a good blender to get a smooth creamy cashew paste.
5. Replacing cashews: If you don’t have cashews then add almonds. Blanch the almonds in hot water for 30 minutes. Then peel and blend them till smooth with some water.
6. Sugar: Addition of sugar depends upon your taste as well as the tanginess present in the tomatoes. So add as per taste. If you add cream then you might have to add less sugar.
7. Taste and flavor: If the butter paneer masala gravy tastes tangy or sour, then to balance the sour taste you can add a bit of sugar or cream. But do not add too much sugar as then the gravy becomes too sweet. Also, do note if you add cream then you might have to add less sugar in the sauce or gravy.