Chilli paneer recipe/paneer chilli recipe:

CHILLI PANEER OR PANEER CHILLI RECIPE is a popular indo-chinese recipe made with paneer or cottage cheese, vegetables and some sauces. It is full of tasty and crunchy vegetables, which gives a refreshing flavour to the dish.

CHILLI PANEER OR PANEER CHILLI is an easy and quick recipe; which can be prepared easily at home. It is a simple and easy recipe even for beginners. Basically, in this recipe paneer is coated with all purpose flour and corn flour with some spices and cooked with soy sauce, chili sauce, tomato ketchup and vinegar to give it spicy and tangy taste. To make the recipe healthy you can avoid using maida or all purpose flour. You can also replace corn flour with rice flour.

CHILLI PANEER OR PANEER CHILLI is a great dish for all paneer lovers. This recipe is a great option to serve as appetizer or starter for any party or get- together. It is also an easy to make snack recipe. Even the gravy version of chilli paneer can be served as a side dish in lunch and dinner.

CHILLI PANEER OR PANEER CHILLI goes well with steamed rice, fried rice, jeera rice, schezwan fried rice and hakka noodles as side dish. It can also serve with roti, paratha, naan and any Indian bread.

Ingredients for chili paneeR:

1. Paneer – 250 grams

2. Onion- 1

3. Capsicum-1

4. Garlic(chopped)- 2 tbsp

5. Ginger (chopped)- 1 tbsp

6. Green chilies(chopped)- 1 tbsp

7. Ginger-garlic paste-1 tbsp

8. Pepper powder- ½ tsp

9. Kashmiri red chili powder – 1 tsp

10. Chili sauce- 2 tbsp

11. Tomato ketchup- 3 to4 tbsp

12. Soy sauce- 1 tbsp

13. Vinegar – 1 tbsp

14. Corn flour- 3 to 4 tbsp

15. Salt

16. Oil

Instructions for making chili paneer:

1. Cut the paneer into cubes. Add Kashmiri chili powder, salt, black pepper powder and ginger- garlic paste and mix well.

2. Add 3 to 4 tbsp of corn flour in it and coat the paneer well with masalas and corn flour. Here you can add maida or all purpose flour, but I have not used. I do not prefer maida for health reason.

3. Heat oil in a pan and fry the paneer until it turns light golden brown in colour.

4. Fry the paneer in small batches. Transfer the fried paneer to a plate and keep aside.

5. Chop onion and capsicum into cubes.

6. Now we will make the sauce. For making sauce, heat 2 tbsp oil in same pan in which we had fried paneer pieces. Add chopped garlic and saute for a while. Add chopped ginger and green chilies and fry. After a while add onion cubes and saute.

7. When onions become translucent, add capsicum and salt and fry for 2 minutes. Do not overcook the onion and capsicum. Keep them crunchy.

8. Now add chili sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, and tomato ketchup in it. Add 2 tbsp water and let it gets a boil. Finally add fried paneer cubes and toss them well.

9. If you want gravy, then make slurry out of water and corn flour and mix it in paneer and sauce mixture. Let it simmer for one minute. Garnish with spring onions or chopped coriander leaves and serve hot.