Chilli Paneer Recipe

Chilli Paneer

  • Prep Time
    10 Minutes
  • Cook Time
    10 Minutes
  • Difficulty Level
    Intermediate

Chilli Paneer is a delicious Indo-Chinese delicacy.

Chilli Paneer is a yummy restaurant style recipe. It is made with cottage cheese, tricolour capsicum, onion, some Chinese sauces. It is a quiet spicy dish as the name chilli paneer. It can be eaten as a snack or as a dinner. It can be served with boiled plain rice or fried rice or noodles. It tastes delicious in all the form. So, try it out.

This yummy recipe is by Samiksha Aggarwal from Delhi.

For more such exciting recipes like Chilli Paneer, please click on the following links:

  1. Indo-Chinese Vegetable Chowmein
  2. Chinese Fried Rice
  3. Baby Corn Manchurian With Veg Noodles

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Ingredients

  • FOR PANEER:-
  • Paneer/Cottage cheese - 250 Gram cut into cubes
  • Corn flour - 1 Tablespoon
  • Refined flour - 1 Tablespoon
  • Ginger-Garlic paste - 1 Tablespoon
  • Salt - as per taste
  • Black pepper powder - as per taste
  • Oil - for frying
  • FOR GRAVY:-
  • Tricolour capsicum - 1 Cup diced
  • Onion - 1 big sized diced
  • Green chilli - 2 cut into long pieces
  • Chopped Ginger - 1/2 Teaspoon
  • Chopped Garlic - 1/2 Teaspoon
  • Chopped Spring onion greens - 1/4 Cup
  • Red chilli powder - as per taste
  • Black pepper powder - as per taste
  • Sesame oil - 2 Tablespoon
  • Soy sauce - 1 Tablespoon
  • Tomato Ketchup - 1 Tablespoon
  • Red chilli sauce - 1 Tablespoon
  • Corn flour - 2 Tablespoon
  • Vinegar - 1 Tablespoon
  • Water - 1/2 Cup
  • Sesame seeds - as required for garnishing
  • Spring onion greens - as required for garnishing

Instructions

  1. PREPARING PANEER:- Take a small bowl, add ginger-garlic paste and little water. Mix well.
  2. Take a bowl and add paneer cubes salt, black pepper powder, ginger-garlic paste. Toss well. Rest it for 10 Minutes. Or You can fry the paneer immediately.
  3. Take another bowl, add cornflour and maida. Mix well.
  4. After 10 minutes, add cornflour mix as required to coat the paneer cubes. Toss it well.
  5. Meanwhile, heat oil in a kadai.
  6. Now, fry the coated paneer in hot oil until light golden colour. Keep aside.
  7. PREPARING GRAVY:- Take a kadai, add sesame oil and heat it.
  8. Add chopped ginger, chopped garlic and saute it for few seconds.
  9. Add diced onion, diced tricolour capsicum, green chilli, spring onion greens. Saute it for 2 minutes.
  10. Then add fried paneer cubes. Add black pepper powder and salt to it. Toss well.
  11. Now, take red chilli powder in a small bowl and water to make a slurry.
  12. Add this slurry to the pan. Mix well.
  13. Add soy sauce, red chilli sauce and tomato ketchup. Mix well.
  14. Then add vinegar to it. Mix well. (If you want dry chilli paneer then switch off the gas at this stage)
  15. Now, add water to the kadai. Boil it on high flame.
  16. Make a slurry of corn flour. Add this slurry to the kadai/pan. Cook for a minute then switch off the gas.
  17. Garnish it with sesame seeds and spring onion greens.
  18. Yummy 'Chilli Paneer' is ready to be served with boiled rice/fried rice/noodles.

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