Description:
The recipe I wanted to share with you this week is a delicious, restaurant worthy, Kadai Mushroom Masala. This is one famous Punjabi dish cooked with small button mushrooms in rich tomato gravy with lots of spices and colorful bell peppers. It gets this unique name from the cooking vessel, similar to a wok, in which its usually made. It tastes fabulous with Fried rice, Pulao, hot chapatis or even flaky Parathas!
Mushroom Masala / Kalaan Masala / Kadai Mushroom / Mushroom Curry / Koon Masala / Puttagodugulu Masala / Goochi / Naaye Kode / காளான் கறி / கடாய் மஷ்ரூம் மசாலா / How to make Kadai Mushroom ?
| Ingredients – Ground Masala Powder | |
|---|---|
| Cumin seeds | 1 Teaspoon |
| Cloves | 3 count |
| Cinnamon | 1 inch |
| Cardamom | 2 count |
| Cashews | 10 count |
| Ingredients – Gravy | |
|---|---|
| Mushroom (White button ) | 7 count |
| Green Bell pepper/ Capsicum | 1 small |
| Red Bell pepper / Capsicum | 1 small |
| Onion | 1 large ( or 1 cup finely chopped) |
| Green Chili (short variety) | 2 count |
| Tomato (Ripe) | 4 medium ( or 2 cups crushed) |
| Ginger Garlic paste | 1 Teaspoon |
| Dry Fenugreek leaves/Kasuri methi | 1 Teaspoon |
| Red Chilli Powder | 1 Teaspoon (Use Kashmiri chili powder for color) |
| Coriander Powder | 2 Teaspoon |
| Turmeric Powder | 1/4 Teaspoon |
| Salt | 1 + 1/2 teaspoon (or adjust to taste) |
| Oil | 2 Tablespoon |
| Butter / Ghee | 1 Tablespoon |
| Fresh Cream | 2 Teaspoon (or regular 2% milk 1/4 cup) |
| Water | 1/4 cup |
Instruction:
Clean your mushrooms and chop them into thin slices. Cut your bell peppers/Capsicums into thick chunks and keep aside. Grind your whole garam masala with cashews to a fine powder and keep aside.
Heat oil and butter in a kadai/Wok or if you can’t find one, just use a regular frying pan. Add cumin seeds and once it sizzles add the onions and green chilies along with crushed dry fenugreek leaves and let cook until it turns translucent.
Once its starts to brown add the ginger garlic paste, followed by crushed tomatoes. Let the tomatoes cook for about 5 minutes over low flame or until it turns mushy.
Now add the turmeric powder, Red chili powder,coriander powder and salt. Add water and let the masala cook a little bit.
Add ground masala powder (Whole garam masala + Cashews). Let it cook till the oil separates from the masala.
Once the masala is cooked, add the chopped veggies and cook for another 2 minutes. Do not cook any longer as we want the veggies to cook to some extent as well as to look colorful.
Now add fresh cream or milk, give a quick stir and simmer for few minutes and switch off.
Serve hot with Fried rice, Chapati and raw onion slices.
Notes:
Yield: 4 Adult servings
18 Comments
Super duper recipe! came out really yummy:) Thank-you so much Mullai.
Thank you Ayesha dear!
Was getting desperate not finding this particular recipe online. Thank god I bookmarked this site. Ma’am, I hope this sums up this amazingly yummy recipe. Kadhai Mushroom masala recipe is present at many sites but your recipe is just wonderful in a different league of its own . My father, not a big fan of mushroom, after helping me cook this recipe even tried this at home and has started loving mushrooms now. Thank you a tonne.
Saurabh, I’m so so happy to hear this on this special pooja day! Even my sis who hates mushroom gave it try and started a liking towards it after this recipe. Thank you so much for your lovely compliment!
Mam,
Can i try the same for panneer instead of Mushroom.
Sumi.,
coimbatore.
Hello Sumi,
Of course you can. It will be like a paneer curry, adding one veggies that you like actually can increase the flavor and taste as paneer doesn’t have any flavor or taste as such so adding thing additional is going to improve a flavor a bit! Thanks for trying recipes from my site and hope you like all of them!
Hi Mullai Mam, its me Rani again. I have tasted mushroom curry in restaurants but I was bit reluctant to try them at home. With great courage i picked up a packet and as usual was browsing through this site and I i wanted to try this recipe. Trust me mam it was great in fact it was more tastier than the one I ate in restaurants. I used the exact measurements as you have mentioned and it was finger licking yummy. Thank you again Mullai mam. I shared this curry in office with my colleagues and I have directed them to your website as well 😀 (now they know how i cook well)
Tried this recipe last night and it was great! So so yummy. This is the first time posting, but I’ve tried many of your recipes and am definitely a fan! They are so well written and easy to follow wit tempting pics. Thank you!
Thank you so much Shalu, your feedback helps! Keep trying and post your feedback, thanks once again for taking your time to post comments!
Good one….
Awesome recipe, taste really good. got a good name from the guest and my husband.Thank you so much mullai.
Thanks Lakshmi.
hi mullai, can i substitute paneer instead of mushroom for kadai paneer.. all ur receipes are awesome:)
Just tried this recipe. Tasted restaurant style. Just like you said! I substituted coconut cream and it tasted very good. This recipe is a keeper! Thanks!
Thanks Asha. Keep visiting for more interesting recipes.
Anu,
You may use Cauliflower / Green peas / Chicken / Mixed veggies / Shrimp / Boiled egg… there are many possibilities. This is like an all -purpose gravy but whatever you add make sure you include bell pepper. Hope this helps, thanks for visiting.
Thank you very much!! You are a great teacher to me…thanks so much again
Hi Mullai, I am a huge huge fan of your recipes…your combination of spices is so unique and detailed…with this recipe, can I replace mushroom with something else?? Thank you and please keep adding recipes!!! They are a huge hit at my parties