Paneer or cottage cheese is a commonly used food item in Indian cooking. I have shared several recipes of Paneer in this blog and today I am sharing the recipe of Paneer Manchurian. It is simple and delicious and can be served with fried rice, noodles or chapathi.
Ingredients
For the paneer
1 litre milk
1 tbsp vinegar
¼ tsp salt
For the marinade
2 tbsp corn flour
1/2 Tsp Red Chilli powder
1/2 tsp pepper powder
1/2 tsp salt
Oil for shallow frying the Paneer Cubes
For the gravy
2 tbsp oil
1 Tsp Finely Grated garlic
1 tsp finely grated ginger
1 onion cut into cubes
1 medium sized capsicum deseeded and cut into cubes
2 tbsp tomato sauce
1 tsp soya sauce
1/2 cup water
2 tbsp corn flour + 1/4 cup water
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1/4 tsp pepper powder
salt to taste
Method
- Boil milk in a pan, add salt and vinegar and stir with a spoon.
- The milk would get separated from the whey.
- Allow it to cool down completely and make paneer from this. Do not fry the paneer now. You can check out this post for a detailed explanation and pics on how to make paneer.
- Now take corn flour, chilli powder, pepper powder and salt in a bowl and mix well.
- Coat the paneer cubes on all sides with this mix and keep ready.
- Heat some oil in a non stick pan and shallow fry the paneer cubes till golden in colour.
- Transfer the fried paneer to a plate and keep ready.
- Now to prepare the sauce, heat oil in the same non stick pan, add garlic and ginger and saute for a couple of minutes.
- Add onions and capsicums and saute till they are cooked but have a bite.
- Add tomato ketchup, soya sauce, chilli powder, salt and pepper powder and mix well.
- Add water and bring to a boil.
- Dissolve corn flour in 1/4 cup water and add to the pan.
- Cook for a minute till the gravy thickens.
- Check for taste and add salt, pepper or chilli powder or tomato sauce if necessary.
- Serve hot.
