Paneer 65 recipe
Paneer 65 is an easy to prepare snack, crispy with spices added to the batter made with maida, corn flour.
Servings: 3
Ingredients
- 200 Gm Paneer Fresh or thawed if frozen ones
- ¼ cup All purpose flour maida
- 2 tablespoon Corn flour
- 1 tablespoon Plain yogurt curd
- 1 Pinch Cooking soda
- 1 teaspoon Ginger garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon Red chilli powder
- ½ teaspoon Garam masala powder optional
- ½ teaspoon Black pepper powder optional
- 1 teaspoon Lemon juice
- 2 sprigs Curry leaves
- ½ teaspoon Chaat masala – ½ tsp
- Salt – as needed
- Oil - to deep fry
Instructions
- First thaw the paneer if frozen.
- Cut into fingers, soak the paneer strips in hot water for 20 mins.
- Drain water completely and take it in a wide bowl or plate.
- Marinate the paneer cubes with half the ginger garlic paste, ½ teaspoon red chilli powder, ¼ teaspoon garam masala powder, black pepper powder, lemon juice and little salt for 10 mins.
- Prepare the batter using all purpose flour, corn flour, remaining red chilli powder, garam masala powder, required salt, curd and required ice cold water.
- The batter should be thick enough to coat the paneer cubes as a thin layer, not a thick coating. so prepare accordingly.
- Toss the paneer cubes in a tablespoon of corn flour or all purpose flour. This helps even coating keeping it intact to the paneer.
- Heat oil and add the paneer cubes to the batter.
- Coat it from all sides and using a fork drop in hot oil. You can use your hands too.
- Let it get cooked until golden and turn the paneer cubes. Cook until golden and crisp.
- Add few curry leaves to the oil. Drain in paper towels.
- Sprinkle with chaat masala. Paneer 65 is ready to serve.
Notes
- While frying in oil, do not try to separate the paneer even if it gets stuck to each other. Later after getting cooked, you can easily separate.
- Make sure to add all the spices and balance it, otherwise will be bland.
- I made more than mentioned measurements.