By Abdul Mondal
Most of the people prefer paneer as a significant part of their meal. A variety of recipes can be made with this wonderful ingredient. To prepare different paneer recipes, you can purchase it from the market in a form of a readymade cottage cheese or you can also make it at home. Homemade paneer is cheaper and more hygienic and it is also better and softer, as compared to their store-bought counterpart. Some popular paneer recipes are as follows:
Paneer Tikka:
Tandoori paneer tikka is a very popular North Indian starter across the Indian restaurants. Paneer is referred to Indian cottage cheese and tikka is translated to chunks of grilled food, hence, Paneer tikka can be regarded as grilled chunks of Indian cottage cheese.
Matar Paneer:
It is an easy-to-prepare and scrumptious paneer and is frequently prepared in various households. Matar Paneer is a well-known paneer recipe prepared in North India. You can make simple homemade recipe instead of restaurant style one. Spicy and dhaba style matar paneer is another variation that tastes just awesome.
Matar Paneer can be accompanied with naan or parathas or steamed rice and jeera rice. You can also serve a raita or a side veg make it a great combination of matar paneer and any other accompaniment. Vegan can use tofu instead of paneer and enjoy the delicacy.
Malai Kofta:
Apart from the non-vegetarian koftas, the vegetarian koftas are also popular. These vegetarian versions can be prepared with either Paneer and potato, or vegetables like mixed vegetables, bottle gourd or raw banana. These koftas make an accompaniment with delicious, rich, and creamy gravy to which cream or malai is added. To know about malai kofta recipe in hindi, you can find out the internet resources.
Malai kofta can be accompanied with plain basmati rice, prepared with certain dry spices and ghee. You can serve it with ghee rice, Jeera rice, plain Paratha, pulao or naan. Since malai kofta is a heavy preparation, therefore, plain basmati rice will make a great accompaniment to it. For making the koftas, you can use potato, paneer, and corn flour as the major ingredients.
Methi Malai Paneer:
It is mild, creamy, and sweet gravy with touches of bitterness from easily available methi leaves. This methi malai paneer preparation is approximately adapted from the preparation of methi matar malai. Fresh fenugreek leaves are the important ingredients in this recipe. If you do not have fresh fenugreek leaves in your kitchen, then you can use kasuri methi or dry fenugreek leaves.
Palak Paneer:
It is a very popular North Indian recipe. It is a simple-to-prepare and delicious dish. It can be paired with roti, naan, or flavoured rice, such as jeera rice or plain basmati rice.
Paneer 65:
It is a well-known starter that you might have seen in various Indian restaurants’ menu cards. Various 65 dishes are Chicken 65, aloo 65, Gobi 65, and Mushroom 65. Some variations of 65 recipes are Hyderabadi or Andhra style, restaurant style, Madurai style etc.
You can search the internet for various other paneer recipes.
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