Friday, 8 July 2016

paneer manchurian


ingredients (measuring cup used, 1 cup = 250 ml)
main ingredients:
  • 200 gms paneer/cottage cheese or tofu
  • 1 small capsicum/green bell pepper - chopped or thinly sliced (optional)
  • 1.5 cups veg stock or water
  • ¼ or ½ tsp black pepper powder/kali mirch powder
  • ½ cup chopped spring onion/scallion whites
  • 1 green chilli/hari mirch, finely chopped
  • ½ inch ginger/adrak, finely chopped
  • 5-6 garlic/lahsun, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp chopped celery
  • 2 tsp soy sauce
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 or 1.5 tbsp tomato sauce
  • 1 tsp apple cider or white vinegar
  • salt as required
  • oil for frying the paneer - about 4-5 tbsp oil
  • a few spring onions/scallion greens for garnishing
for the corn flour paste:
  • 2 tbsp corn flour
  • ½ cup water
paneer marinade:
  • 2 tbsp corn flour
  • ½ tsp chopped ginger-garlic
  • salt and pepper as required
how to make the recipe:
  1. Mix all the ingredients for the paneer marinade.
  2. Add paneer to the marinade to the paneer. Toss the mixture well, so that the paneer is well coated with the marinade.
  3. Shallow or deep fry the paneer cubes in hot oil. Drain on paper napkins and keep aside.
  4. Remove the extra oil from the wok or kadai. When the oil becomes hot add the onions.
  5. Stir fry the onions on medium to high heat taking care that they do burn.
  6. Make the corn flour paste with water.
  7. Let the onions become translucent. Add the ginger, garlic, green chili and celery. Stir for some seconds or a minute.
  8. Now add the capsicum if adding them. Stir fry the capsicum also for 2-3 mins.
  9. Now add all the sauces, veg stock or water. Stir and simmer. Add the corn flour paste and let the sauce thicken.
  10. Now add the fried paneer cubes, vinegar, pepper and salt. Stir and simmer for a minute.
  11. Garnish Paneer Manchurian with spring onion green and Serve Paneer Manchurian hot with veg fried rice, asian veg rice or veg noodles.
notes
For the Dry Paneer Manchurian Recipe:

If you want the paneer manchurian recipe to be to be dry, then do not add any water.

Just add the sauces, salt, pepper, sugar and vinegar. Stir well. Add the fried paneer pieces.

Mix the paneer pieces in the sauce and serve the dry paneer manchurian hot.

Some Tips:

Add the cornflour paste slowly and keep on stirring while adding it so that lumps are not formed.

If you like to have more gravy, you will obviously use more water or stock. So in proportion you will have to increase the cornflour paste.

The cornflour is added to thicken to the gravy. If the gravy becomes too thick, then you can thin it by adding little water.

You can even add the paneer pieces directly instead of frying them.

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