Paneer Manchurian is an Indo-Chinese dish made with paneer. Paneer is also known as Indian cottage cheese. It is used in most of the Indian veg dishes. Steps for making paneer or cottage cheese are simple. Paneer can be made easily at home too. In today’s Paneer Manchurian recipe, I have used store bought paneer as I did not have any home-made paneer. Today’s recipe is a dry paneer starter.
Paneer Manchurian is served as a starter in Indian restaurants. You can serve this starter with veg fried rice or tofu fried rice or hakka noodles with egg. I have not added any food colour to this recipe. But if you wish it can be added.
You can also check this Gobi Manchurian recipe I made some time back. You can also make veg manchurian or chicken manchurian by replacing paneer in this recipe. This paneer recipe can also be packed in the lunch box with fried rice. You can even serve this as a starter for parties.
Also remember that paneer is a healthy dish. You can make various dishes like palak paneer or matar paneer and serve it to your family. I will share some more paneer recipes soon. Till then, enjoy this delicious cottage cheese manchurian recipe. Check out honey chili potatoes.
Paneer Manchurian
Ingredients
- 1 packet/200 grams paneer or cottage cheese cut into cubes
- 4 tablespoon maida / all-purpose flour
- 4 tablespoon corn flour
- 2 teaspoon red chili powder
- 1 teaspoon Black Pepper Powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1/4 cup water or as needed
- 1 cup oil for deep frying paneer
For manchurian sauce:
- 5 tablespoon spring onion whites finely chopped
- 8 Garlic Pods minced
- 1/2 inch ginger peeled and minced
- 1 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste
- 1 green capsicum cubed
- 2 and 1/2 tablespoon Tomato Sauce
- 1 tablespoon soya sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon Black Pepper Powder
- 2 tablespoon spring onion greens, chopped
- 1/2 cup water
- To taste Salt
- 2 tablespoon oil
Instructions
- Take a mixing bowl and add maida, corn flour, red chilli powder, black pepper powder and salt to taste.
- Add water little at a time to make thick water. Ensure that there are no lumps in batter.
- Pour the cubed paneer in the batter and coat them completely in batter.
- Heat a kadai and add oil. After oil gets heated, deep fry the batter coated paneer. Drain them on a tissue paper.
Now let us make the paneer Manchurian.
- Heat a frying pan. Add oil. After oil gets heated, add chopped spring onion and sauté.
- Heat a frying pan. Add oil. After oil gets heated, add chopped spring onion and sauté.
- Then add chopped capsicum and fry. Let the capsicum be bit crispy.
- Add ginger-garlic paste and mix well.
- Now add tomato sauce and mix.
- Next add soya sauce and mix.
- Add black pepper powder and sugar and mix.
- Add 1 tablespoon remaining paste from the maida and corn flour batter and mix well. If the paste is over, add 1 tablespoon corn flour.
- Add water and salt to taste.
- After the sauce becomes bit thick, add fried paneer cubes and coat well with the sauce.
- Garnish with spring onion greens.
Leave a Reply