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Chilli Paneer

This paneer chilli recipe is a Indo Chinese style stir fry of deep fried cottage cheese cubes with bell peppers, chillies, onion, garlic and Chinese sauces. You can turn this starter into a main course by thickening the gravy base with corn starch slurry. This recipe is from FoodFood TV channel

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Chilli Paneer

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Main Ingredients Dried Red Chillies, Cottage Cheese
Cuisine Indo-Chinese
Course Snacks and Starters
Prep Time 11-15 minutes
Cook time 16-20 minutes
Serve 4
Taste Spicy
Level of Cooking Moderate
Others Veg

Ingredients list for Chilli Paneer

  • 3 Dried Red Chillies
  • 400 grams Cottage Cheese cut into 1/2 inch pieces
  • 1 teaspoon + 1 tablespoons Tomato chilli sauce
  • 1 tablespoon Ginger-garlic paste
  • 2 tablespoons Refined flour (maida)
  • 5-6 Spring onions
  • 2 tablespoons Oil
  • 1/2 cup Red capsicum chopped
  • 1/2 cup Green capsicum chopped
  • 1/2 cup Yellow capsicum chopped
  • to taste Salt
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Method

  1. Keep paneer cubes in a bowl, add salt, ginger-garlic paste, refined flour, 1 tsp tomato chilli sauce and mix gently. Roughly chop spring onions.
  2. Heat 2 tbsps oil in a non stick wok. Heat sufficient oil in a kadai. Cut red chillies into small pieces, remove seeds and add to the wok. Add spring onions and saute.
  3. Add a few cubes of paneer at a time to the hot oil in the kadai and deep fry on high heat till golden. Add capsicums to the wok and mix well. Add salt cookfor some time.
  4. Add 1 tbsp tomato chilli sauce, mix well and cook for 2 minutes. Switch off the heat.Drain paneer cubes and add to the wok and mix well.  Serve hot.

Nutrition Info

Calories 1517
Carbohydrates 31.8
Protein 59.2
Fat 128.3
Other Fiber Calcium- 723.9mg
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