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Summary: Best way to chop onion for Paneer Masala for best cooking and even flavor; learn this and more, including tips and trick for preparation and spices in this free online cooking video about Indian food taught by an expert chef.
Allen Diwan is an expert in Indian cooking. Diwan has been cooking since he was 14, but for the past six months, he has been training in London with Atul Kochhar, the first Indian chef...read more
"ALLEN DIWAN: Hi, my name is Allen Diwan. I'm the owner and head chef of Kashmir Indian Restaurant in Budapest. We are here on behalf of Expert Village. The dish now we're going to be preparing is called paneer masala. Now, to prepare our masala, we will start off by cutting our onions and we don't want the onions to be cut very, very, very finely. The reason being, we want to feel this rustic flavor of the masala in our dish, so just about that sort of size, cut into cubes. We use about--we need quite a lot of onions. Maybe about four onions or so. We use another half of that onion. Basically that's about enough, and we start off by sorting these onions."