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Paneer pakora recipe, tomato juice recipe

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    I never made this until I tried this at restaurants… They give softest paneer pakoras…When we want to quench our sudden craving for North Indian food,we go to a ‘walk-able’ restaurant near by- Mumtaz Mahal at Downtown east. My kids favourite is always Gobi Manchurian there. So we order that for him and for ourselves we order either Paneer Pakoras or Paneer tikka . My hubby though he doest like paneer in gravies, he loves starters using paneer… 
The recipe is very simple,with simple ingredients,if you have paneer block in your freezer. Perfect and easy starter idea when you host some guests for dinner…

Ingredients:

Paneer 10 – 12 small square slices
Gram flour/kadala maavu 1/2 cup
Rice flour 1/4 cup
Cooking soda 1/8 tsp
Corn flour (optional) 1 tsp
Red chilli powder/pepper powder 1 tsp
Asafoetida 1 pinch
Ghee 1 or 2 tsp
Oil For deep frying
Chaat masala For sprinkling on top
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   Method:

  1. Mix both flours with water required to a thick paste,along with salt,pepper powder.cooking soda(sodium-bi-carbonate) and ghee.
  2. Thaw the paneer till soft(keep out in room temperature for 2-3 hours or so).Slice it with knife carefully ,not too thick as well as not too thin, to desired shape(square/rectangle/triangle)
  3. Heat oil in a deep frying pan and dip the paneer pieces to coat the paneer well in the batter and deep fry them both sides until crisp and golden brown. 

    4. Paneer pakora making

Sprinkle chaat masala on top and enjoy hot with green chutney or any sauce.

Paneer Pakora

Notes:

  • Adding ghee sure enhances the flavour and makes more crisp.You can skip it too or add oil as well instead.
  • The paneer becomes soft when its deep fried and best to eat it when it is still hot.

TOMATO JUICE

This is one of the very few juices my mom makes in my childhood… What I love in this is the elachi flavour in it! Simple and delicious to indulge…

tomato-juice

Ingredients

Tomatoes 3
Sugar or honey 1 tbsp
Elachi 1
Ice cubes As needed

tomato-juice-recipe

Method:

  1. If you don’t want the skin then boil water and drop in the tomatoes in it. Put off the flame and let the tomatoes be in the hot water for 2 minutes. Make sure the tomatoes are immersed completely.Take out and peel the skin of the tomatoes.

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  2. Roughly chop the tomatoes and blend it well with elachi,sugar until smooth and serve cold with added ice cubes…
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Notes:

  • You can simply grind with the skin and filter the juice with strainer too.
  • If you dont like elachi,feel free to skip.
  • Adjust sugar/honey according to your taste buds.

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  6. I love paneer pakoras,bit I use fresh paneer and stuff green chutney in between two slices b4 dipping in batter…just love them like anything..Tomato juice and guava juice r my most favorite ones n especially ready made..looks nice…loved that red background in d last click

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  8. We used to make this tomato juice in summer.it was long back! I was thinking about a few days back! Nice clicks.

    Paneer pakora is simple and delicious starter!

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  14. Paneer pakoda looks sinfully tasty 🙂 Should be yumm 🙂 and I love the tomato juice too. Used to make and have now and then 🙂

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  24. Paneer pakoda is a easy appetiser idea, wud luv to try it sometime….Luved the last click of the tomato juice very much. But cant imagine myself having tomatoes other than in gravies and chutneys….:)

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  28. Paneer pakora sounds yummy!Tomato juice was one of my childhood favorites.We just cubed the tomatoes and blended in the mixer,added sugar and ice and sip on it.Adding elaichi is a great idea!Perfect for summer!

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  36. Lovely pakoras!! I too love tomato juice..It's been forgotten for a while by me..You remembered it now!! Made it and relished it completely with a dash of cardamom!!

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  60. Two recipes..Both are mindblowing.. I never made paneer pakora (weight problem) but i've had in restaurants ( 1 r 2 pieces )… Great job again Raks

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  70. very yummy n crispy pakoras…and tomato juice is fabulous and it was long time i made this…u remind me…very nice presentation n lovely clicks…
    btw thanx for visiting my space n for your comments…

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  92. Yummy paneer pakora….just prepared for my son, he liked it very much(Me Too).
    Love your blog! I hav tried your recipes…till now all the tried recipes have been successful 🙂

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  94. yummy paneer pakora….just prepared for my son, he liked it very much…love your blog, have tried lot of your recipes…till now all have become successful 🙂

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