Paneer bhurji recipe | Easy paneer recpies

January 12, 2012 by Raks Anand 67 Comments / Jump to Recipe

Paneer bhurji is one of the easiest paneer recipes that can be made with less effort and time. This scrambled Indian cottage cheese is beginner friendly.

Best idea if you are time pressed - for quick lunch box, snack, lunch or dinner, any time, any day.

Check out this easy paneer paratha recipe in my website also my Kadai paneer recipe which is also a quick and easy recipe with paneer.

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📝 Ingredients
📸 Step by step photos
🍲 Serving suggestions
💭Top tip
👩🏼‍🍳 My notes
📖 Variations
Serving suggestion
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I had this for first time at my friend Sangeeta's place. It was really tasty and filling. She told it is very easy and made quickly as well.

📝 Ingredients

Here are the simple ingredients needed for this recipe

Paneer
Onion
Capsicum
Green chilli
Ginger
Coriander
Garam masala powder
Red chilli powder
Turmeric
Lemon juice
Coriander leaves
Milk optional

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📸 Step by step photos

1. Soak paneer cubes in hot water firstly. After 15 to 20 minutes, drain water completely.

2. Crumble the paneer finely with hands secondly or grate it if using as block.

3. Heat a pan thirdly with oil. Temper with cumin followed by finely chopped ginger, green chilli.

4. After that, add finely chopped onion.

5. Fry until it gets translucent.

6. Furthermore, add chopped capsicum and cook for a minute.

7. In goes all spice powders and give it a fry quickly.

8. Now, add scrambled paneer and required salt.

9. Mix well in medium flame. Smash any large pieces if any.

10. After 2 minutes, switch off flame and add lemon juice.

11. Finally add coriander leaves for garnishing.

Wrap it in a roti or just have it as a side dish, you can even eat its as such! Tastes awesome and damn easy to make!

🍲 Serving suggestions

Apart from serving as side dish for Indian flat breads like phulka, kulcha or roti,

This can be a perfect lunch box idea, you can even wrap the paneer bhurji in roti for your kids. They would love it.

Make it little more spicy and stuff between breads as paneer bhurji sandwich or even dosa.

💭Top tip

Fresh paneer gives best results. Frozen works but make sure to use a good quality one otherwise it may turn dry.
Best when had hot.

👩🏼‍🍳 My notes

It can be made with fresh or frozen paneer. I have updated new steps, video with fresh paneer.

Only difference in process is, if using fresh paneer, recommend using hands to scramble it or grate it. Using mixie is not advisable.

If frozen, thaw by immersing it in hot water for 30 mins. Run it in mixer in small pulses to get it crumbled.

If you have curdled milk, just try drain, make paneer and try paneer bhurji, you can utilize the curdled milk in this way!

📖 Variations

You can be creative with this dish, try adding peas to make matar paneer bhurji or carrot, also will be nice.

If it is too dry, you can add cooking cream or milk to make it moist.

Instead of using red chilli powder, you can use black pepper too.

Serving suggestion

This recipe is part of my Lunch menu series. Check it out to include this in your lunch menu.

Phulka, Paneer bhurji, Aloo bhindi, Rice - Lunch menu 33

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