Chilli Paneer 
Chilli Paneer Recipe

 

One of the popular Indo Chinese recipe which adds great taste is the chilli paneer .This chilli paneer can be served as the starter, lunch or dinner. This chilli paneer recipe have a great spicy, sweet, tangy, sour taste and can be prepared very quickly. I have prepared this chilli paneer recipe with no onion and garlic as it is purely vegetarian recipe.

Chilli Paneer / Chilli Paneer Recipe

Preparation Time :- 25mins

Cook Time :- 15mins

What is chilli paneer ?

Chilli paneer is one of the most popular vegetarian dish like chilli chicken. In this recipe, the paneer cubes are dipped in the batter and fried. Then a sauce is prepared , where the fried paneer is dipped into it to make the gravy and its taste becomes delicious.

 

We often find that these chilli paneer recipe is served in restaurant or in the home in different ways:-

1) Firstly, the chilli paneer recipe is served as the starter dish in restaurant.

2) Secondly, the gravy which is prepared with chilli paneer is mostly consumed with steam rice, fried rice or noodles.

3) The chilli paneer can also be served with roti or naan. It is a very authentic and popular dish of the restaurant and are very famous for its taste and flavor.

 

Procedure to make chilli panner

Step1) Preparation of chilli paneer:- Firstly, in a bowl take 3 tablespoon of cornflour or cornstarch and 4 tablespoon of all purpose flour or maida and mix it. Then add ¼ teaspoon of black pepper powder and salt as per requirement. Now add water as requirement and stir it completely with whisk or spoon very smoothly to avoid lumps.

Step2) Preparation of the paneer:- Then on a plate take the paneer bar and wash it off. Then cut the paneer into small cubes. Put the paneer blocks in the bowl of batter and gently coat the paneer with the batter with the help of spoon.

Step3) Frying the paneer:- Take a frying pan, add 4 tablespoon of white oil and heat the oil. Then place the paneer cube wrapped in the batter and fry it lightly until it becomes a little brownish in colour.

Step4) Placing the paneer on a paper:- Then fry the paneer cubes until it becomes crispy and golden. Place the fried paneer cube on a paper towel so that the excess oil is absorbed on it.

Step5) Preparation of chilli sauce:- Add 2 teaspoon of finely chopped ginger in the extra oil which is left over in the frying pan. Add some green chillies as required. Add 1 cup of some finely chopped  capsicum and sauté it completely for 5 minutes.Then add 2 teaspoon of soy souce, ½ cup of finely chopped tomatoes, and 1 teaspoon of red chilli sauce, stir and mix the sauce completely until it is done. When the oil will come up from the mixture, then add water as required to make the gravy.

Step6) Preparation of chilli paneer:- Stir the mixture very well and make it slightly thick. Then add the fried paneer cubes after noticing the consistency of the gravy and stir it completely. Then mix it very well and add ½ teaspoon of vinegar which will taste you tangy. If you want, you can add more chilli sauce, soy sauce, salt, black pepper and sugar ctc. Then serve the hot and delicious chilli paneer with noodles or rice or roti or naan.

Suggestions for serving

1) Chilli paneer recipe can be served with fried rice, Szechuan fried rice, hot garlic rice, hakka noodles, veg hakka noodles etc. It act as a best side dish recipe with these various recipe.

 2) You can also serve this recipe with paratha, roomali roti, jeera rice, veg rice, veg pulao etc.

 3) Chilli paneer can be made little dried so that it can be served during snacks time.

 

   Expert tips

1) Paneer-While making the chilli paneer recipe, use the homemade paneer. If the paneer is frozen,then for few minutes soak the paneer in hot water and make it completely dry before pouring it into the batter.

2) Flour-In order to make the batter, you can use rice flour instead of all purpose flour.In place of cornstarch you can use arrowroot flour or potato starch.

3) Frying-While frying the paneer do not fry it too much,as the paneer will become more harder and stiff.So fry it very light.

4) Consistency- Do not add more water to the gravy, as you will loose the thicker consistency and flavor.

5) Bell-pepper- As this chilli paneer recipe is without onion and garlic, so for better taste you can add yellow and red bell-pepper along with the capsicum which adds more taste and gives a colourful look.

 

6) Spicing-You can add soy sauce, chilli sauce, tomato sauce, black pepper, sugar, salt as per your liking and taste.

    Ingredients

 For battar

1) 3 tablespoon of cornflour

2) 4 tablespoon of all purpose flour

3) ¼ teaspoon of black pepper powder

4) Salt as  required

5) Water as required

 

For frying paneer

1) 4 tablepoon of white oil

2) 300gm of paneer cut in cube block

3) For chilli paneer gravy or sauce.

1) Green chilli as required.

2) 2 teaspoon of ginger.

3) 1 cup of finely chopped capsicum.

4) 2 teaspoon of soy sauce

5)1/2 cup of finely chopped tomatoes.

6) 1 teaspoon of red chilli sauce.

7) ½ teaspoon of vinegar

8) 1 tablespoon of cornstarch

 

Cusine :- Indo- Cninese
Course:- Side dish, Snacks

FAQs

Can I use tofu instead of paneer ?

Yes, absolutely you can use tofu instead of paneer. But, according to me , paneer adds greater taste than tofu.

How can I serve dry chilli paneer recipe ?

While making the chilli paneer , if you dry it more than usual then you can have it as snacks during evening. You can also wrap this dry chilli paneer in a roll and have it as chilli paneer roll.

What will I use instead of cornflour for this recipe ?

You can use potato starch or arrowroot flour instead of cornflour or this chilli paneer recipe.

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