Friday, November 5, 2010

Paneer paratha with homemade paneer


Ingredients:
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  • Wheat flour - 1 cup
  • Milk - 1 litre
  • green chillies - 4 to 5
  • cumin seeds - 1 tsp
  • salt - to taste
  • dhania powder - 1 tsp
  • red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
  • lemon juice - extracted from 1 lemon
  • oil - 1 tsp
method:
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paneer crumbs
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  • Boil milk.
  • Squeeze lemon juice into it.
  • The milk will start to separate.Add 1 tsp of jeera to the milk.
  • Pour it into a muslin cloth and squeeze out the excess water.
  • Tie it tight to a door handle/hook and leave for 15 min.Keep a bowl below to collect the drops.
  • Save the stock for making dough.
Dough
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  • Mix wheat flour and luke warm stock to form a soft dough.
Paratha
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  • Open the muslin cloth and just crumble the paneer with your hands.This is jeera paneer .
  • Heat 2 tsp of oil in a kadai.Add finely chopped green chillies and saute for a minute.
  • Add the paneer crumbs,1/2 tsp salt,red chilli powder,dhania powder and saute for 5 min.The stuffing is ready.
  • Make round balls with the dough.(dia:3 cm)
  • Spread each ball into a small roti and keep 2 tsp of stuffing in the middle.Cover it from all the sides and spread it again like a roti smearing little atta flour on both the sides.

  • Cook both the sides on a skillet in a medium flame,smearing little ghee/oil.
  • The paratha should be cooked well and at the same time be crispy.
Serve hot with curd and pickle.



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