Paneer Tikka
Hello all! The last time I posted, I made a mental note that m gonna start posting atleast one recipe a week. So here I am, again, with another Indian dish - Paneer Tikka. Now, this dish can be really tedious to make, and it requires skewers and a bbq set/ an oven, but I promise, it is really scrumptious to eat if made perfectly. Paneer Tikka has lots of variants, but the one I'm posting the recipe for today is commonly called Lasuni Paneer Tikka, because of the strong taste of Garlic in the Marinade.
Approx prep time: 1.5 hours atleast
Approx cook time: 30 mins
Serves: 4 people
Cuisine: North Indian
Part of menu: Main Course
Hot/Cold: Hot
Ingredients:
- 500g Cottage cheese (Paneer)
- Hung Curd (normal curd will do in a worst case scenario, but marinading is always easier with hung curd)
- Cumin seeds (Jeera) - 1 tablespoon
- Green chilli and garlic paste - 3-4tablespoom
- Garlic - 6-8 cloves finely chopped
- Red chilli powder - 1 tablespoon
- Turmeric powder (Haldi) - half a tablespoon
- Coriander (dhaniya) powder - 2 tablespoons
- Carom seeds (Ajwain) - 2 tablespoons
- Salt - to taste (about 2 heaped tablespoons)
- Oil - 2 tablespoons
- Vinegar - 1 tablespoon
- Roasted Gram Flour (Besan) - 5 tablespoons
- Black Pepper - half a tablespoon
- Vegetables - varying quantity of each - tomatoes, Green Bellpepers (capsicum), onions
Major equipment required
Skewers
Barbecue set (stand + wire mesh) or Oven
Preparation :
Cut the paneer into cubes, making sure they aren't too large else they could be raw after cooking.
Prepare your marinade by mixing the hung curd, garlic paste and garlic cloves in a bowl.
To this add your spices along with vinegar, oil, and the besan.
Cut slits in the Paneer cubes and stuff with the mix. After stuffing the cubes, let them marinade in a refrigerator for atleast an hour.
Cut your vegetables as you would expect them to be on a barbecue. For example - remove the centre of a Tomato before chopping the rest of it in squares. Same applies for bell peppers. Make sure you have enough veggies to thread into the skewer
Prepare your marinade by mixing the hung curd, garlic paste and garlic cloves in a bowl.
To this add your spices along with vinegar, oil, and the besan.
Cut slits in the Paneer cubes and stuff with the mix. After stuffing the cubes, let them marinade in a refrigerator for atleast an hour.
Cut your vegetables as you would expect them to be on a barbecue. For example - remove the centre of a Tomato before chopping the rest of it in squares. Same applies for bell peppers. Make sure you have enough veggies to thread into the skewer
Cooking :
- Thread the Paneer Cubes onto Skewers, using your vegetables to seperate them.
- Barbecue this on a gas, Using a wire mesh on an open flame.
- Keep the gas on low heat and frequently rotate the skewers to prevent them from burning.
- Take off heat and serve in a plate before Paneer begins to Blacken.
Alternate methods.
- You could place the skewers in an Oven and roast them
- You could do the paneer of in a pan with some butter and oil instead of grilling on Barbeque, but following method can affect the taste of paneer. (Also there is no way of doing the vegetables with this method)
And that is how you make Paneer tikka. Thank you guys for taking time to read this. Please do read my other recipes aswell, I'll keep posting new ones from time to time.
