Easy and Quick Paneer Dishes to Make at Home: 10 Delicious Paneer Recipes You Simply Must Try in 2020!

• Put the milk pan on the gas and let the milk come to a boil. Keep the choice of acid handy while the milk is boiling.
• After one boil, switch off the gas and add either 2 tablespoons of vinegar or the same amount of lemon. If you are using yoghurt then add 1/4th cup of it.
• Keep stirring the milk while adding the acid and give it a stir after adding for up to 1 minute. You will notice that the milk will start solidifying but if it does not then turn on the gas and bring it to one more boil. Also, if required, add a bit more of the acid to split the milk and form paneer.
• Turn off the gas immediately as the milk starts to curdle ensuring that the paneer remains soft. Take a cheesecloth and put it over a colander and thereafter pour the mixture over it and wash it with cold water to take away the smell of acid.
• Drain the mixture completely so that you get only the solids and then make a knot of the cloth with the mixture inside to hang it more 30 minutes. Your home-made paneer is ready to be used in various dishes.

Ingredients

• Tomatoes – 2-3
• Capsicum – 1-2
• Onion – 1-2
• Butter – 2 tablespoons
• Carom seeds
• Ginger-garlic paste 1-2 tbsp
• Chopped green chilli 2-3
• Red chilli powder - 1/4th tbsp
• Pav bhaji masala - 1 tbsp
• Garam masala and raw mango powder - 1tbsp
• Salt to taste

How to Make

• Make tomato puree beforehand and finely chop green chillies, ginger, onion and capsicum.
• Heat a tawa and put two skillets of butter. After melting, add carrom seeds. Add all the chopped vegetables and cook it nicely before adding ¼ tsp each turmeric powder, chilli powder and coriander powder.
• Also, add pav bhaaji masala and dry mango powder. Thereafter, add tomato puree and let it come to a boil.
• Toss the paneer cubes into the mixture and stir it with light hands for spice coating. Serve it hot with flatbread or paratha.

Ingredients

• Paneer
• Umami Chilli Sauce
• Corn starch for thickening – 3 tablespoon
• Soy sauce – ½ teaspoon
• Green Chillies 2-3
• Red Chilli powder – 1/4th teaspoon
• Crushed black pepper – 1/4th teaspoon
• Garlic and ginger paste – ½ tablespoon
• Spring Onions
• Salt as per taste

How to Make

• Take paneer cubes in a bowl and sprinkle corn starch or potato starch approximately 3 tbsp. Thereafter, add other spices mentioned above in the bowl as well and gently mix the paneer, so that there is a nice coating of all the ingredients as well as the corn starch.
• Take a frying pan or kadhai and add around 5-6 tablespoons of oil. Once the oil is hot, put paneer chunks and shallow fry till it is golden brown.
• Keep the paneer aside and start with the sauce in another bowl. Take 1 tablespoon full of soy sauce, red chilli sauce, green chilli sauce, rice vinegar.
• Take a pan, put some oil and after it heats up, add sesame seeds, spring onions, thinly sliced capsicum and stir fry it. Add the sauce and bring it to boil.
• Add starch slurry and after 30 seconds add fried paneer cubes. Cook it for 2-3 minutes and switch off the stove. Serve Instant Pot chilli paneer with noodles.

Ingredients

• Chopped Carrot, Capsicum - 1/2 of each
• Cabbage - 1/4th shredded
• Finely chopped onion - 1/2
• Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
• Chopped garlic - 1-2 clove Chopped green chillies -
• White pepper powder – ½ tbsp
• Vinegar, chilli sauce and soy sauce – 1 tbsp each
• Leftover rice - 3 cup

How to Make

• You can either put fried paneer or the raw ones in your fried rice recipe.
• Heat the pan and put 2 tbsp of oil. Put finely chopped green chillies, garlic and ginger and cook it for 30-40 seconds.
• Add all the veggies and stir fry to remove the rawness and add a good shine to it.
• Add all the sauces and thereafter the rice. After cooking for 2-3 minutes, add paneer chunks and cook for 1 minute.
• Put off the flame and serve the dish hot the choice of curry or sauce.

Ingredients

• Paneer
• Veggies of choice
• Cilantro green sauce or green chutney
• Taco seasoning and marinade

How to Make

• Take a large bowl and mix oil, lime juice, taco seasoning and a bit of water and add the mixture to the cut veggies and paneer cubes.
• After refrigerating for an hour, take out the mixture. Heat the pan and spray some oil to saute the paneer mix veggie.
• Get the readymade tortillas or homemade ones and spread the cilantro sauce or homemade chutney.
• Put the paneer veggie mix in the tortilla and fold it. That’s all, delicious and quick paneer tacos are ready to serve.

Ingredients

• Paneer - 250 gm
• Garam Masala - 1/2 tbsp
• Red chilli powder and crushed pepper powder – ½ tbsp of each
• Ginger garlic paste – 1 ½ tbsp
• Dried herbs or coriander leaves 3/4th tbsp
• Bread crumbs
• Salt to taste
• Flour (Maida or rice four) 1/2 cup

How to Make

• Make the coating mixture first by mixing red chilli powder, breadcrumbs and salt and keep it aside.
• Take another bowl and mix flour, pepper, herbs, ginger-garlic paste, garam masala, red chilli powder and salt.
• Add some water and mix it well to make a thick batter. Coat the paneer chunks in the batter first and then toss it to the breadcrumbs mixture.
• Now take the nicely coated chunks and deep fry it in a pan with heated oil. Serve it hot with ketchup of your choice.

Ingredients

• Paneer – 200 gms
• Maida – 2 ½ tbsp
• Cornflour – 3 tbsp
• Rice flour – 1 tbsp
• Sliced onions – 1-2
• Chopped ginger and garlic – 1 ½ tbsp of each
• Garam masala powder – ¼ tbsp
• Chat masala – ½ tbsp
• Red chilli powder – 1 tbsp
• Corriander powder – 1 tbsp
• Curry Leaves – 8-10
• Thick curd – 1 ½ tbsp

How to Make

• Take a large bowl and add paneer chunks, maida, cornflour, rice flour, ginger, garlic, garam masala, chaat masala, ½ tbsp red chilli powder, salt to taste.
• Add water and make a thick paste and then deep fry the paneer chunks.
• Take another pan and saute onions and curry leaves. Add chilli powder, salt and thick curd. Add fried paneer in the pan and cook for a few minutes.
• Turn off the flame and serve the dish hot with the ketchup of your choice.

Ingredients

• Paneer Cubes - 2 cups
• Celery - 1/2 cup
• Green bell pepper - 1/2 cup
• Cornflour - 2 tbsp
• Minced Ginger - 1 tbsp
• Sliced green chilli - 6-8
• Dark Soy Sauce - 1/2 tbsp
• Vinegar -1/2 tbsp
• Green Bell pepper - 1/2 cup
• Garlic – 3-4 cloves
• Tomato puree
• Turmeric – ½ tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Diced capsicum and onion – 1 of each

How to Make

• Make a consistent batter of cornflour salt and crushed pepper and coat the paneer cubes. Fry the paneer cubes golden brown and keep it aside.
• In another pan, heat 2 tsp of oil to saute ginger, garlic and green chillies. Thereafter, add celery and green bell pepper followed by salt to taste, soy sauce and vinegar.
• Once bell peppers are tender, add the fried paneer cubes and cook for 2 minutes. Add spring onions and garnish with cilantro. Serve hot as starters with ketchup and mint chutney.

Ingredients

• Paneer Bhurji
• Dosa batter – 6-7 cups
• Podi masala – 3-4 tbsp
• Oil – 3-4 tbsp
• Chilli flakes - 1/2 - 1 tbsp
• Shredded mozzarella
• Salt to taste
• Pinch of sugar.

How to Make

• Spread the dosa batter and sprinkle some oil when bubbles start forming onto the batter.
• Prepare paneer bhurji on one side and put it over the dosa that is cooking. Add the shredded mozzarella and chilli flakes.
• Cook the dosa and let the cheese melt because by that time dosa will become crispy and comfortable to hold. Cut pizza slices and serve hot with ketchup.

Ingredients

• Garlic – 5-6 cloves
• Red dry chilli – 3-4
• Salt to taste
• Sugar – A pinch
• Cumin – ½ tbsp
• Chopped onion – 1
• Paneer – 250 gms

How to Make

• Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds, letting them splutter. Meanwhile make a paste of garlic, red chillies, salt and sugar. Once the cumin seeds splutter, add the garlic chilli paste and cook it until the rawness is gone.
• Add paneer cubes into the mix and add water according to the thickness you want.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve it hot.

Ingredients

• Paneer -250 -300 gms
• Onion, tomato, capsicum – 1 each and diced
• Ginger garlic paste – ½ tbsp
• Corriander powder – 1 tbsp
• Red chilli powder – 1 tbsp
• Garam masala – ½ tbsp
• Crushed Kasuri methi - 1/2 tbsp
• Ketchup - 2 tbsp
• Water - 1/4 cup water
• Salt to taste

How to Make

• Saute the diced veggies and paneer cubes in two different pans and set it aside.
• To make the jalfrezi sauce, heat oil in a pan and add garam masala, coriander powder, red chilli powder, ketchup and ginger garlic paste.
• Cook until the rawness of the spices is gone and add a little bit of water.
• Once cooked, add veggies and paneer in the sauce and cook it for 1-2 minutes. Switch off the gas and serve the dish hot.