Chilli paneer or Paneer chilli, an Indian fusion recipe with Chinese flavors. Indian cottage cheese cooked with Chinese sauces and spices. A famous side that can be enjoyed as a starter or as a side with flatbreads.

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Today's Chili Paneer Recipe
Ingredients for Finger Licking Chilli Paneer
Chilli Paneer | Paneer Chili | Indo-Chinese Recipe

Paneer Love

As a vegetarian, paneer, Indian cottage cheese, is an excellent protein source. We love to include paneer in our regular meal. This Poha paneer is a popular breakfast at home. A simple and hearty breakfast, gets done in minutes.

Both my kids love this quick and easy capsicum and paneer subzi, and this simple paneer curry . Quick and easy delicious dry curries, perfect for lunch box.

Both the kids don't mind any vegetable with paneer. Like this Paneer and corn subzi, my elder one despises corn, but he is fine when there is paneer along.

I usually pack roti rolls for their school dabba, this Chana paneer stuffed rolls is a super hit dish amongst their friends too.

These Pudina paneer bread rolls is such a hearty and healthy dinner idea. These bread rolls can be a huge hit for get togethers and can be made for a crowd. Why not try for you New year party?

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Cauliflower, paneer & peas rice

Cauliflower, peas and paneer rice is a mixed rice made with fresh/leftover rice. An easy to make rice recipe during weekdays.

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Capsicum and paneer burger

Capsicum and paneer burger is a lip-smacking burger recipe with bell peppers and indian cottage cheese. A fusion recipe, with a spicy masala made of bell peppers, paired with toasted paneer/indian cottage cheese.

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Dates & Paneer Peda | No White Sugar | Fudge Recipe

Dates & paneer peda, a milk sweet made with crumbled paneer, sweetened with dates paste and flavored with cardamom and cloves. A quick and easy fudge recipe with no white sugar

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Paneer Kulcha/Paneer qulcha - Flatbread stuffed with panner for #BreadBakers

An yeasted flat bread stuffed with delish paneer and cooked on a flat griddle.

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Indo-Chinese Cuisine | Indian Chinese Cuisine

Indian Chinese cuisine or Desi-Chinese cuisine is a distinct style of Chinese cuisine adapted to Indian tastes, combining Chinese foods with Indian flavors and spices.
Indian vegetables and spices are used, along with a heavy amount of pungent Chinese sauces, thickening agents, and oil.

We have a variety of Adapted Chinese recipes in our cuisine, even the Chinese would be astonished. I have to admit, this is the first time i m making a Indian Chinese fusion at home.

We have so many options when we eat outside, so i was never tempted to make it at home. But during covid times, when the world shut down and we were all experimenting at home learning new things, I tried to move out of my comfort zone and learnt to cook new cuisines. The few Indo-Chinese recipes that are in the blog are result of that experimentation.

Today's Chili Paneer Recipe

I cannot quote just one source for this recipe today. I read and saw numerous videos to get the consistency, color and taste right. Voila, it is a hit! Kids and hubby were so delighted to taste Paneer chili and Gobi Manchurian dry for Lunch today.

My lil one brightly exclaimed "Hey, this taste exactly like kamat Gobi" there i earned my MasterChef title!!!!

Coming to today's recipe, the only work here is to fry the paneer, if that is done, rest is a breeze. I have used a combination of flours for the batter as i dont use all purpose flour at home. If you are ok to use all purpose flour, kindly go ahead and replace the flour mix.

Ingredients for Finger Licking Chilli Paneer

Paneer : The main ingredient. I have used store bought paneer for this Indo chinese dish.
The flour mix : To deep fry paneer, i have used a flour mix of rice flour, besan and wheat flour. If you are fine with using All purpose flour, pls use it.
The Marinate : Paneer is marinated in the flour mix along with some turmeric powder chili powder and salt.
For the Sauce : Soy souce and tomato sauce. A roux made of corn flour and water to thicken.
Spices : Onion, green chili, ginger and garlic along with freshly pounded black peppercorns.
Vegetables : I have used a green capsicum and spring onions in this side dish. You can add more colorful peppers to this or just use onion and paneer also.
Garnish : Spring onion greens for garnish.

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Chilli Paneer | Paneer Chili | Indo-Chinese Recipe

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Servings: people

Calories: 225kcal

Ingredients

For the Paneer

200 grams paneer
¼ whole wheat flour
¼ gram flour/besan
2 tablespoon rice flour
2 tablespoon corn flour
a pinch of turmeric powder
½ teaspoon red chili powder optional
salt to taste
Oil for frying

For the sauce

2 onions
1 green chili slited lengthwise
2 fat cloves of garlic finely chopped
1 inch piece of ginger finely chopped
¼ cup of spring onions chopped
1 green capsicum cubed
1 tablespoon corn flour
1 teaspoon peppercorns freshly pounded
1.5 cups of water
1 teaspoon salt to taste or to taste
1½ tablespoon soy sauce
3 tablespoon tomato sauce i used tomato-chili sauce
few greens of spring onions for garnish

Instructions

Prepare the paneer first

Mix together wheat flour, besan, rice and corn flour in a large bowl, whisk to combine.
To this add turmeric powder, red chili powder an salt, mix well to combine. Now to this add ¼-cup to ½ cup water and make a batter. The batter should neither too thick nor too thin. It should coat the paneer well
Heat oil in a sauce pan for deep frying the paneer, Dip the paneer slices into the batter and drop into hot oil and fry until golden brown.
While frying do not add more paneer cubes into the oil, they might clump together and not fry well.
Believe me, been there, done that, so i m giving you heads up! Drop only 4-5 cubes at a time, and do not crowd them together.
This frying part is a bit of a job, once this is done, rest is all breezy. So take care while fring the paneer slices.
Once the paneer turns golden brown, remove them with a slotted spoon, onto a kitchen towel. Repeat the same with rest of the paneer, keep aside until use.

Let us make the gravy

Heat a pan, add oil, once it is hot, add chopped onion, garlic, chili and ginger to it and saute until translucent. Take care not to burn them, it will spoil the taste bad.
Now to this add spring onions and saute for a minute in high. Now to this add chopped capsicums and pepper to this and saute for a minute in high.
To the veggies now add soy sauce and tomato sauce and stir. In a small bowl, mix corn flour and water together and add this to the pan, stir well. The sauce will start thickening almost immediately. Keep stirring for a minute
Now add the fried paneer, mix well. Take it off the stove. Garnish with spring onions greens and serve it warm with fried rice or Roti.