Whenever anyone has ordered food lately, at home and everywhere else it has been a paneer dish or a paneer starter! This is probably the easiest recipe you’re going to find anywhere. It doesn’t involve frying and it is relatively healthy!
The ingredients are really basic and you can have this dish ready in about 10 minutes. The taste can be modified to how spicy you can handle it. I added only 2 green chillies here, not too many people at home eat spicy food. You can add chilli sauce as well, I did while eating it, it gave it a nice spicy kick!
This is perfect as an evening snack or a starter. It really goes along well with all types of beverages!
I hate frying food, I would love to bake stuff instead of frying. I would suggest to not fry the paneer, it can get very rubbery. You can add capsicums or bell peppers to this, it gives it a nice crunch.
Let me know in the comments below if you make it? Do you want another recipe? Do ask me!
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Chilli Paneer
Whenever anyone has ordered food lately, at home and everywhere else it has been a paneer dish or a paneer starter! This is probably the easiest recipe you’re going to find anywhere. It doesn’t involve frying and it is relatively healthy!
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons of corn flour
- 1/4 teaspoon finely ground pepper
- 1/2 a teaspoon of Kashmiri red chilli powder
- 4 tablespoons of water
- Add salt per taste
- 200 grams paneer
- 2 green chillies diagonally cut
- 1 onion
- 1 teaspoon ginger paste or ginger garlic paste
- 2 tablespoons of tomato ketchup
- 1 tablespoon of dark soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon of Kalonji or nigella seeds
- 4 spring onion whites and greens separate, cut the roots out
- 2 tablespoons of oil
- 1 more teaspoon of corn flour for the sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- Salt per taste keep it less as ketchup and the soy sauce will have salt
Instructions
Steps for making Chilli Paneer
- In a bowl add 3 tablespoons of corn flour
- Add quarter spoon finely ground pepper
- Add half a spoon of Kashmiri red chilli powder
- Add 4 tablespoons of water, I unfortunately added extra
- Add salt per taste
- Mix them and make it into a paste
- Cut the paneer into thick cubes
- Mix once and marinate the paneer for 20 minutes
- While the paneer is marinating cut 2 green chillies diagonally
- Next cut an onion into petals or segments and peel them into layers
- Keep a teaspoon of ginger paste or ginger garlic paste
- Keep 2 tablespoons of tomato ketchup
- 1 tablespoon of dark soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon of Kalonji or nigella seeds
- 4 spring onion, whites and greens separate, cut the roots out
- In a deep pan add 2 tablespoons of oil
- Add the Kalonji, next carefully add the ginger paste! The oil splashed and spluttered!
- Add the spring onion whites and mix
- Add the cut green chillies and mix
- Add the cut onions, Stir fry till it turns translucent
- Add 2 tablespoons of tomato ketchup and mix
- Next, add salt per taste and mix
- Add 1 tablespoon of dark soya sauce and stir well
- Add 1 teaspoon of corn flour and mix
- Add the paneer, I do not like frying it so I have added them as is.
- Most recipes ask for it to be fried
- Stir fry it for a while
- Add cut spring onion greens now and stir well
- If you can handle it, you can add a dash of chilli sauce now!
- Add a teaspoon of sugar at the end and mix
- The dish is now ready!
- Serve it in a bowl, eat it when it is hot
