chilli paneer recipe | paneer chilli | indo chinese dry chilli paneer recipe
Made in Chinese sauces, chilli paneer makes a great appetizer
Ingredients
1 cup = 240 ml
FOR MAINATION
- 250 grams paneer/cottage cheese
- 2 tbsp Corn flour
- 1 tbsp All purpose flour / maida
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
FOR GRAVY
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 1 tbsp Garlic grated
- 1 tbsp Ginger grated
- 2 Green Chillies
- 10- 12 Onion squares
- 10- 12 Capsicum squares
- 1/4 cup Spring onion
- Oil for frying
FOR CORN SLURRY
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tbsp Corn flour
- 1 tbsp Soya Sauce
- 1 tsp Red chilli sauce
- 1/2 tsp Sugar
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1 tbsp Vinegar
Instructions
- take a bowl and add ingredients mentioned under the head 'for marination'. mix them.
- cut paneer into squares and add to the bowl.
- with the light hands, gently coat the paneer with the flour mixture. Keep aside for 10 minutes.
- take a pan with oil and shallow fry the paneer cubes till they turn golden brown from all the sides. take them out.
- the pan in which the paneer was fried, take out some of the oil so that only about 2 tbsp of oil is left.
- add ginger and garlic and on low flame stir fry till it turns golden.
- add green chillies and saute for a second.
- add onion squares, capsicum Squares and chopped spring onion. Saute on high flame just for 2 to 3 minutes.
- in the meantime, prepare the corn slurry. we have taken the same bowl in which paneer was marinated because there is still some residue at the base of it.
- add all the eight ingredients mentioned under the head "for corn slurry" into this bowl and mix properly so that they remain no lumps.
- immediately pour this slurry into the pan. Mix and cook for 2 minutes.
- add fried paneer cubes and mix well.
- cook for one minute. your paneer chilli is ready.