Paneer 65 (cottage cheese)-Indian Snack

Ingredients:-

• Paneer-500 gms-cut into pieces like in picture below
• Curry leaves- 2-3 twigs
• Ginger-2 inches
• Garlic-25-30 pods
• Green Chillies-10-12
• Kashmiri red chilli powder-1 tsp
• Black pepper powder-1 tsp
• Garam masala powder-1 tsp
• Lime Juice-1 Tbsp
• Hung curd-1 Tbsp
• Rice flour-2 tsp
• Corn Flour-2 tsp
• Salt according to taste

Procedure:-

Cut the paneer/cottage cheese like this.

Make a coarse paste from curry leaves, ginger, garlic and green chillies. Add red chilli powder, black pepper powder, garam masala powder, lime juice, hung curd, rice flour, corn flour, and salt to the curry leaves paste & make a thick batter, Add water if needed to make it thick.
Marinate the paneer pieces in this batter for 4-5hours.

Heat some oil in a pan and deep fry few curry leaves and keep it aside. Now deep fry these cottage cheese pieces 1 by one.

Heat 1 tsp of oil in a separate pan Then add chopped green chillies and garlic to the oil. Add 1-tsp of chilli garlic sauce (or) chilli sauce. You can add any leftover batter into the oil.
Finally add the fried curry leaves and fried paneer pieces into the pan and mix well for 2 minutes.
Serve Hot!

~ENJOY~