Chilli Paneer is a popular Indo-Chinese street food which hardly takes 40 minutes to prepare. It tastes delicious and is a great starter for any party. You can have chilli paneer either on its own or with a bowl of fried rice or Hakka noodles.
Check the method:
Ingredients
Paneer – 200 Grams
For Batter
Corn Flour – 3 tbsp
Maida – 3 tbsp
Pepper Powder – ½ tsp
Salt – ½ tsp
Water – As needed
For Chilli Sauce
Oil – 1 tbsp
Garlic (Finely Chopped) – 1 tbsp
Ginger – ½ tbsp
Large Onion (cubed) – 1 no
Capsicum (cubed) – 1 no
Green Chilli (deseeded and slit) – 1
Spring Onion (whites) – 2 tbsp
Spring Onion (greens) – 2 tbsp
Soy Sauce – 1 tbsp
Red Chilli Sauce – 2 tbsp
Tomato Ketchup – 2 tbsp
Red Chilli powder – ½ tsp
Vinegar – ½ tsp
Sugar – 1 tsp
Pepper Powder – ¼ tsp
Salt – 1 tsp
Corn flour – 1 tsp
Water – ¼ Cup
Oil – To deep fry
How to Prepare
- Take a large bowl and add corn flour, Maida, pepper powder, and salt. Also, add water and mix all the ingredients to form a batter, coat the paneer cubes in the batter and deep fry. Set them aside.
- Take a pan and heat it over medium flame. Now, add oil, garlic, ginger and saute for 30 seconds.
- Add spring onion whites, onion, capsicum, green chilli and saute for a minute.
- Now, add soy sauce, red chilli sauce, tomato ketchup, chilli powder, vinegar, sugar, pepper powder and salt.
- Mix cornflour and water to prepare the thickening agent.
- Add the thickening agent to the sauce mixture.
- Add the batter-fried paneer cubes and toss.
- Garnish with chopped spring onion greens and serve hot.
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