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Chili paneer is a popular starter dish.
Goes well with fried rice also. This recipe is an Indo-Chinese version i.e a mix of Indian and Chinese cuisine.
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
For the SauceTomato sauce: 1 teaspoon
Chili sauce: 1 teaspoon
Soya sauce: ½ teaspoon
Vinegar: ½ teaspoon Paneer (Indian cottage cheese): 250gm
Onion: 2 medium
Capsicum: 1 big
Chopped ginger: 1 teaspoon
Chopped garlic: 1 teaspoon
Sliced green chili: 1
Cornflour: 1 tablespoon
Oil: 3 tablespoon
Salt to taste
Preparation
- Mix cornflour with little salt and water and prepare a thin batter.
- Heat 2 tablespoon of oil in a pan.
- Cut the paneer, dip in the batter and fry in the oil from both sides till light brown.
- Remove and keep on a paper towel.
- Cut the onion and capsicum into desired sizes.
- Heat the remaining oil and add the onion, capsicum, ginger, garlic and green chili to it.
- Fry on medium heat for 1-2 minutes.
- Mix all the sauce and add it to the pan along with the paneer.
- Cook for another 1-2 minutes.
- Serve hot
Paneer Chilli -This spicy chilli paneer i learned from one of my childhood friend, Vineeta. She loves cooking and was so fast to prepare it, and then it tasted so yumm, that henceforth i always followed her recipe to make this.Paneer chilli is a chinese variation to a typical paneer recipe. The paneer cubes are batter coated, fried and simmered in a sauce or gravy.Deep fried paneer pieces in a green capsicum & chillies flavoured sauce.
Paneer Chilli Recipe an innovative recipe with the traditional paneer is a combination of the best of Indian and Chinese cooking
