Paneer Cutlet Recipe | Paneer Snack Recipe

Paneer Cutlet Recipe

Paneer / Indian cottage cheese is such a versatile ingredient. They are vegetarians way of adding protein to their diet. We are all familiar with curries and tikkas with paneer hence I wanted to share a snack recipe with paneer making them into cutlets. Paneer cutlets are soft and tasty in every bite. They are easy and quick to make. I love making snacks with paneer, after this paneer cutlets my favourite has been the paneer cigar rolls. If you have vegetarians guests at home, make them these easy and yummy snacks. 

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Paneer Snack Recipe

PANEER CUTLET | ALOO PANEER CUTLET RECIPE

Recipe Source - Own

Serves - 6

Prep time - 20 mins

Cook time - 10 mins

Serving suggestion - Along with tomato ketchup & hot coffee/tea.

Ingredients

Paneer - 1 cup (crumbled/ shredded)

Potato - 1 large (cooked & mashed)

Cornflour - 3 tbsp (acts as a binding agent, replace with breadcrumbs if the cutlets have too much moisture)

Maida/ All purpose flour paste - 2 tbsp of flour + 2 tbsp of water

Turmeric powder - 2 pinches

Pepper powder - 1/3 tsp

Bread crumbs - 1/2 cup

Salt - to taste

Oil - 3/4 cup to deep/ shallow fry

To Grind

Green chillis - 3 nos

Ginger - 1" piece 

Cumin/ Jeera - 1 tsp

Method

1. Boil and mash the potatoes and set aside.

2. Crumble/ shred the paneer, set in a bowl, to this add potato, cornflour, turmeric, salt, pepper, ground paste of ginger, cumin & green chilli. Mix well with hands. Check for salt.

3. Divide into equal size balls and roll them with little pressure. Lastly flatten it between palms.

4. Dip the cutlet in the maida/ flour paste and roll on the bread crumbs. Repeat this for all the cutlets.

5. Heat oil in a kadai/ wok, once medium hot add the cutlets and fry for 1 minute per side and flip gently fry further for 30 seconds.

6. Using a slotted spoon remove the cutlet and drain in a paper towel.

7. Serve hot with ketchup and a hot drink like coffee/ tea.

Easy Paneer Snack recipe

Cooks Wisdom

Tip 1

1. Make sure the oil is not too hot, else the outside will cook faster than the insides.

Tip 2

2. You can spice up the paneer with spices like red chilli, corriander and garam masala. I have kept the spices to minimum but the flavour comes from the ground paste. 

Tip 3

3. You can use cooked veggies/ spinach to this cutlets. For more flavour use corriander leaves too.

Tip 4

4. Make sure that the water used to boil potatoes are discarded and then mash the potatoes. In case there is more moisture in the cutlets then used some breadcrumbs to bind the cutlets.

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