Paneer Butter Masala

Paneer Butter Masala is one of the most popular dish in Indian North Indian Cuisine. Very commonly ordered in restraunts in India. This is rich in ingredients and its tastes delicious. 

Most of the North Indians are fond of Paneer Butter Masala. This recipie will help you tp prepare PNB very easily and quickly without putting extra efforts. Withing Minutes you will have a delicious and rich PNB ready to be served.

Ingrediants- 

• 200 or 250 gms paneer/cottage cheese, cubed or diced
• 2 tbsp cashew – soaked if you have time and then ground with some water to a smooth paste. if less time, then just grind the cashews to a smooth paste.
• 4-5 medium size tomatoes – pureed
• 1 or 2 green chili, slit (reserve a few for garnishing)
• 1 inch ginger and 3-4 garlic – crushed or ground in a mortar & pestle
• 1 inch ginger – julienned (reserve a few for garnishing)
• 1 bay leaf/tej patta
• 1 tsp kasuri methi/dry methi leaves
• 1 tsp garam masala or tandoori masala
• ½ tsp red chili powder/lal mirch powder or deghi mirch or kashmiri mirch powder
• 1 tbsp oil + 1 or 2 tbsp butter
• 1.5 cups water
• a few coriander/cilantro/dhania leaves for garnishing (optional)
• salt and sugar as required – check notes below for adding sugar

 

Instructions

 

1. heat oil and butter in a pan. add bay leaf and fry for some 10-15 seconds or till the oil become fragrant.
2. add ginger-garlic paste and fry till the raw aroma disappears.
3. add the tomato puree and stir well. add red chili powder after 2-3 mins and stir again. saute till the oil starts to leave the sides of the tomato paste.
4. add cashew paste and stir well. saute the cashew paste till the oil begins to leave the sides of the masala paste.
5. add water and stir. simmer on a low flame.
6. add julienned ginger and green chilies, salt and sugar and simmer till the curry begins to thicken.
7. add the paneer cubes and cook them for 2-3 minutes till they become soft.
8. don’t cook for a long time as the paneer will become dense.
9. lastly add crushed kasuri methi/dry fenugreek leaves & garam masala. stir.
10. garnish paneer butter masala with coriander leaves. 

Serving-

Serve with corriender leaves and some green chilli with rotis , Naan or basmati rice. Have some onion and lemon with side compliments.

Enjoy your delicious Paneer Butter Masala 'PNB'

posted by Animesh Dubey
on 30-03-2014

SP - Private company or Political party???

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“The Socialist” Mulayam singh Yadav respectfully known as "Netaji" was recently compared with Italian dictator Mussolini by Beni Prasad Verma. 

A diminutive but a "never say die fighter" draws strong support dominantly from the Yadav clan and Muslims. 

Loyalty means a lot to him, be it a case of Personal Security Officer Shiv Kumar, personal secretary Jagjivan or telephone operator-cum-attendant Tara Chand whom he has retained for the last three decades. 

He is even recognized to go to any extent for his family too --  Daughter-in-law Dimple won Kannauj by-elections only when SP Supremo himself has vowed to get her elected unopposed. 

But in last few years’ his lifestyle changed midway. Person, who used to sip butter milk bottled in a thermos flask during flights, now prefers ginger drinks – Samajwadi Party supremo is now refreshing his party as a “Private limited company” for his own family members.

Mualyam Singh Yadav (CM, MP, Minister) 

Akhilesh Yadav (Son, MLA, MP, CM) 

Dimple Yadav (Akhilesh's Wife, MP) 

Dharmendra Yadav (Nephew, MP) 

Shivpal Singh Yadav (Cousin, MLA, Minister) 

Ram Gopal Yadav (Cousin, MP) 

Upcoming …

Akshay Yadav son of Ram gopal Yadav,

Prateek Yadav cousin brother of Mr. Akhilesh Yadav 

Mulayam singh Yadav who started his political career by inspirations of veteran socialist; Ram Manohar Lohia who always fought against dynasty rule, is now changing his boats. 

Now rather than contributing to the society it seems contribution towards family is on priority.

But it seems Days for this government are numbered. Party workers are fed up with Family politics -- nearly 100 party members left the party on Sunday. 

SP is running a private company, there is no space for the genuine and common workers. Mulayam Singh is distributing lucrative posts and seats to family members and 'loved ones' -- says Trilok Tyagi who had joined the party in 2007 along with 2 other members of RLD. 

Party is facing resentment over ticket distribution for 2014 lok sabha elections. Some of the leaders who were associated over a decade, moved out of SP. 

Time has knocked the door; current government is already sitting on the records of Poor governance in Muzaffarnagar and with strong leaders like Ramakant Yadav, who won the azamgrah seat for SP both the times, will now be posing a strong challenge to the SP supremo. 

With other senior party leaders unhappy with ticket distribution and many leaving the party ---2014 elections would be a tough situation not only for the Samajwadi party but for SP Supremo family limited company.

What’s your view on this??

posted by Anit Chauhan
on 25-03-2014

All About Music- Classical/Art Music

HISTORY

The term classical music refers to a number of different, but related, genres. Without any qualification, the usual meaning of “classical music” in the English language is European classical music (an older usage describes specifically the Western art music of the Classical Music Era). It can also refer to the classical (or art) music of non-Western cultures such as Indian classical music or Chinese classical music.

The major time divisions of classical music are

The early music period, which includes

• Medieval(476-1400)
• Renaissance (1400-1600)

Common practice period

• Boroque(1600- 1750)
• Classical(1730-1820)
• Romantic(1815-1950)

Modern and Contemporary Period

• 20th century Classical(1900-2000)
• Contemporary Classical(1975-current)

The dates are generations, since the periods overlapped and the categories are somewhat arbitrary.
In a Western context, classical music is generally a classification covering music composed and performed by professionally trained artists. Classical music is a written tradition. It is composed and written using music notation, and as a rule is performed faithfully to the score. Art music is a term widely used to describe classical music and other serious forms of artistic musical expression, Western or non-Western, especially referring to serious music composed after 1950.

Performance of classical music repertoire often demands a significant level of technical mastery on the part of the musician; proficiency in sight-reading and ensemble playing, thorough understanding of tonal and harmonic principles.

Some of very few 21st century classical music artists:

Anthony Gilbert (1934)

Jerry herman (1933)

Ray Reach(1948)

posted by Ashwarya Joshi
on 15-03-2014

Open Letter to Kalmadi requesting him to contest from Pune

Dear Mr. Suresh Kalmadi,

Namaskar!!

Welcome back to Pune. I know you have been busy out of your constituency for most time, but we can understand your commitments with the Tihar Jail.

Now, that you are back in the city and spending some leisure time thinking to decide whether or not you should contest the Lok Sabha elections or not,  I would want to give a piece of ‘unwanted’ advice.  Now that Congress has not given any ‘bhav’ to you and have fielded Vishwajeet Kadam from Pune instead, we are to believe that you are left with limited options – either you support Kadam or contest elections yourself or boycott election completely and live a retired life probably as a governor of Telangana or any other state. (Sheila Dixit told us being a Governor is the best retirement job these days).

My sincere advice to you would be to totally ignore first option as it would be totally unfair to Kadam who may be losing anyways, to get a perfect excuse – “I lost because of affiliation with Kalmadi.” I would also advice to dismiss the third option because I believe people should not lose the respect for the First person of the state (Governor). So, that leaves the second option – contest as an independent. I would highly recommend you to do so.

My reasons are very simple. Every time I discuss politics at the tapri with my fellow colleagues of IT company, who are from different parts of India, my head goes in shame to mention my MP is a tainted politician who has been sacked from IOA on charges of corruption. When my international clients boast about China and London Olympics, I feel embarrassed that my MP could not even ensure a clean CommonWealth Games in 2010. So much so that misuse of office party funds is jokingly called ‘Kalmadisation’ nowadays. Even during the Anna movement, when people were confronting their MPs  across India to press for Lokpal, we could not even do that because you were busy sipping tea in the Tihar jail. Therefore, I now believe that in the city of Tilak and Gokhale, we cannot afford to have a Kalmadi.

And so, it would be in the earnest interest of the reputation of Punekars that you contest elections and we get a chance to repent what we did the last three times. If you feel that it is just your name that has been tainted, its not correct. Collectively it is a taint on us who sent you to parliament in the first place. So, ideally it should be us who should disown you through the medium of these elections. I wish that you contest and we thoroughly reject you. I wish you lose so badly that it be a lesson to future leaders of consequences of corruption. I wish you lose deposit in the same way our nation lost deposit of honor while hosting the games. I wish that we succeed in washing our sins of sending a tainted politician to the parliament by defeating you. I wish we regain our Pune pride by completely marginalizing and disowning you.

And I wish when you come to us this time asking for votes, we ask “Who are you?” in the same way as you claimed you suffer from dementia (memory loss) in the Commonwealth Games scam investigation.

Regards,

A common punekar

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posted by Anand Walunjkar

on 22-03-2014

Sachin R Tendulkar : The man everyone wants to be

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I recieved this message a year ago.it say's

When I was 5 years old, watching live

match, I asked

my father "who is he....?"

He replied- Sachin......Sachin Ramesh

Tendulkar.....Mast khelto..

When I was 8 years old, we started to

learn how to play

cricket by copying him....

@ the age of 15 we were struggling for

S.S.C

exams....he was playing cricket for

nation.....He was

our Hero....

@age of 24- got job n next day Saw

Sachin lifting

World Cup for India

Today I m on the way to office.....can't

recall when i

played last match on ground.....he is

still playing for

Nation.....

Just one wish....after few years, my son

should ask

me,while watching live match, "who is

he...?". And my

answer will be--Sachin......Sachin

Ramesh

Tendulkar.....and he is just

awesome. 

23 Years on the cricket field , has been an immense contribution from a single human being .

 What he did to this game was just tremendous, Cricket once just a game in India , has now become a religion , which unites Indians not just in India , but across the world,be it any part of the world you go to.

Its all because of what this legend did in the decade of late 1990 ,It empowered India to at a  big level , he single handedly proved to the world he was ready for any challenge , and today if you read comments from the best of those era

You will just see words of applause from any bowler, Denis Lillee to Curtly Ambrose to Allan Donald to Brett Lee to Wasim Akram to Dale Steyn. He has dominated the best in the world and that’s the reason for him to have achieved all the respect he holds today.

I need not mention any specific innings , or about his ups and downs in cricket. Its not anything new , that people are not aware off, but I want to share a recent experience, which I suffered and what made me feel a glimpse of what it takes to be Sachin Tendulkar.

Recentlty I appeared for trials of Bowling for one my closed groups organized by corporates in India. We had around 2000 people who appeared for the trials ,

When I was given the chance to bowl , I was allowed to bowl only 2 deliveries. And the ball was taken from me. And same was the case with just everyone ,later on they just went on to select just one bowler and on what basis only they know , because for me its too difiicult to judge someone just on two balls. 

I just wondered if it was that difficult for me to be selected out of 500 bowlers, being a 24 year old grown up, how would a 14 year kid would have made it to Deniss lilee’s pace academy, what kind of determination he would have possessed.

Yes Sachin Tendulkar first came in for trials at the age of 14 as a medium pace bowler and was asked to forget bowling and concentrate on batting rather, two years later he turned up again and finally at age of 16 made it to the Indian team , out of the billion people of India, being the youngest to be representing your nation , shows the passion , determination , prowess of this great Human Being.

And there after he never looked back . There are hardly words to describe what he has done , encouraging genrations , and being an idol for them, Inspiring them to do wonders in their field and making them believe , that if you remain focused to your targets , there’s not a thing in this world you cannot achieve.

 Today being one of the most renowned sports person in this world , he truly deserved the Bharat Ratna  award.

But what hurts me is when still you here people saying some utter crap about him , especially about his decision of retirement coming up late/early , should have been after worldcup 2011, etc.

 I mean the youth who grew up watching him , are just 24. 25 years old , that’s almost age of his career . these people who don’t even know how to hold a bat properly speak about him , he should have done this that , or india loses when he scores a hundred or other stuff. I do believe that everyone has their own opinion and I am not discerning their thoughts or criticizing any one .but all I have to say is just one thing and make a request to all these people who think that way .

 Just look at your lives , You want a leave every sat , Sunday , govt holidays , you want to celebrate your festivals with Family , and leave your work aside , on the other hand , he served your country , no matter it was Diwali, Christmas , new year , and most importantly 3 days later his father passed away . just ask your self if you are ready to give that commitment  to your work , career. He missed life with his family and so many other sacrifices , but all people want from him is to score a hundred everytime he bats.

Thers is some much to write and say , that I wont be able to cover up in just one blog.

So guys I would just request you to do one thing , #respectTheLegend if not for what he has done , then for atleast  something you know you cant do.

#SachinRT you will live in our hearts forever.

posted by Ruchit Kulseja

on 15-03-2014

Rahul Gandhi strong attack in Gujarat

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Rahul Gandhi in his strongest attack on BJP prime ministerial candidate on his home turf on Tuesday has repeated the past by comparing Modi to Hitler.

Hitting straight on the ideology Mr. Gandhi said that a true leader is one who goes to people, not to give speeches but to listen to people.

Talking about leaders like Gandhiji and Hitler he said -- There are two kind of leaders, one who wants to understand people and has no pride, and others who believed there was no need to learn from the people and claim credit for everything.

Addressing a rally in Balasinor, he said "Taking away farmers' lands without any compensation is chori not chowkidari.

Mr. Gandhi said -- Thousand acres of land were taken without compensation but still there is no employment. He said Gujarat is shining but only for handful of industrialists who are shining like gold but the houses of the poor in Gujarat are still under dark.

Talking about the corruption he alleged BJP for corrupt ministers in cabinet which includes Karnataka ex-chief minister.

Taking a dig on Modi's unity project, the proposed statue of Sardar Patel, Gandhi said building a statue is fine, but people must know atleast 10-12 pages about Mr. Patel before doing it.

They (BJP) say they will erase the Congress, but do they realize who made the Congress. It was Gandhi and Patel together.

He said -- India doesn't need a security guard, people of the nation need their rights and in the same speech he said -- Hum Aapko apne ghar ka Chowkidar banana chahte hein.

Illustrating the benefits of MNREGA and Right to food he said BJP's main problem is Anger.

Somehow I personally feel that talking about programs like right to food, which will help 80 crore people can show a big picture, but money for such programme comes from Middle men pocket.

Even in his own speech he said - 70 crore people falls in a category between the BPL and middle class -- which means money for such programs will come from handful of persons.

So in a way such programs are a good gimmick to woo the voters but on actual grounds it won't serve the purpose.

Overall it was hard-hitting attacks which still lack the content.

Ways are different agenda is same but who will win this battle.

So what's your view on this...?

posted by Anit Chauhan
on 11-03-2014