Sunday, March 24, 2013

Tricolored Chili Paneer


In a vegetarian family serving starters always means making fried stuff or sandwiches, most times. Chili Paneer is a favorite and how much that my nieces and nephews choose it over chocolate cake. The last time we had a function is our home I was serving this tricolored Chili paneer to my uncle MJ, the kids saw it. It was not yet their dinner time and they were playing video games, on spotting it they immediately dumped their play and instead demanded that I serve them the chili paneer. I offered chocolate cake but they chose this lovely colorful chili paneer!

So here is the recipe

Ingredients

1 block of paneer about 400gms
2 tablespoons corn flour
1 red bell pepper
1 green bell pepper
1 yellow bell pepper
1 tablespoon dark soya sauce
2 tablespoon chopped garlic
2-3 onions chopped into squares
3-4 spring onions chopped fine
1/2 cup baby corn sliced
slit green chilies (as much as you can handle)
2 tablespoon oil
salt to taste
sugar to taste

Keep a pot of boiling hot water ready to dunk paneer after frying to make it super soft.

To begin lets fry the paneer first. Make a thin batter of corn flour water and salt. It should coat the paneer chunks thinly. Cube the paneer to finger sized pieces. Dip each piece in the batter and fry in hot oil. Remove once golden and dunk in the hot water. Once all the paneer pieces are fried and dunked in hot water to soften. Drain them on a sieve. Separate out each piece if they are sticking together.

Heat oil in a wok. First fry the garlic then add the chopped onions and fry till translucent. Chop all the three colored bell peppers into long fingers. Add them to the saute. Cook for 5 mins. Add the white parts of the spring onions and cook for another 5 mins. Follow in with the slit green chilies and baby corn slices. Add the soya sauce, lastly add the paneer and stir well and fast on high heat just to caramelize a bit. Salt it and add sugar as per taste.

Remove from heat and serve immediately with sprinkles of the spring onion greens.

13 comments:

  1. The colours in the dish are so appealing. Nice and simple with a indo-chinese touch.

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  2. Inviting chilli paneer,wish i live near you.

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    1. Come on over Priya, I have a cuppa waiting for you!

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  3. Super tempting - wish this was my lunch.

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  4. first time here nice blog glad to follow you... mouth watering will try this ... visit my blog www.sriyafood.blogspot.com

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    1. Sriya keep visiting...going over to yours now...

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  5. This looks really good... Anjali, there's a new Bengali take-away in our locality, quite nice. You'd find it interesting to check out.

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    1. Hi Kiran how are you? Oh wow, what's the name? will suggest to friends near you.

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  6. This recipe is colorful.. will try this.. For south indian food recipes check at South Indian Recipes

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