Chilli Paneer Recipe

Restaurant Style Chilli Paneer Recipe

Chilli paneer is my all time favourite, make it quite often..I have posted it before in this blog, that is a little variation of this recipe. I wanted to post a updated version with new pictures. So i made it couple weeks back and sharing it here..I served it with egg fried rice and it turned out quite good..You can serve it with any fried rice veg or non veg or noodles.

About Chilli Paneer

Chilli Paneer is a well-known Indo-Chinese dish. Even for beginners, the recipe for chilli paneer is quite simple and easy. Paneer is first coated in a cornstarch batter and fried until crisp. Then, ingredients such as garlic, capsicum, and spring onions are sautéed to make a fresh chilli sauce. The sauce is then made by combining red chilli
sauce, soy sauce, and vinegar. Serve with rice or noodles.

This dry dish is good to have it as appetizer also..I will soon share a gravy version of it soon. You can check my other paneer recipes also.So try this out and let me know how it turns out for you.

Ingredients for Restaurant Style Chilli Paneer

Paneer :
Paneer has a mild, milky flavour and a dense crumbly texture that complements the strong spicy flavours found in many traditional Indian dishes. Because it does not melt like other cheeses, chunks of it can be stirred into soups or curries and stay whole.

Capsicum :

Because of their higher sugar content, red capsicums are the sweetest and highest in vitamin C and beta carotene. Orange and yellow capsicums contain nearly as much sugar as red capsicums, whereas green capsicums have a low sugar content due to early picking, which gives them a slightly bitter taste.

Spring Onion :
Spring onions are very young onions that have been harvested before the bulb has had a chance to swell. The long, slender green tops and small white bulb are both edible and can be eaten raw or cooked.

Red Chilli Sauce:
The most common recipe for this sauce includes dried red chilies, vinegar, tomatoes, and sugar, but other variations are possible. It is used to flavour a variety of dishes from various cuisines, ranging from Chinese to Mexican.

Chilli Paneer Recipe (Step by Step Pictures)

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Take all your ingredients

This is your normal chilli paneer. But i modified it so i can serve it in a toothpick. It is so easy to make and it will make your party really special..The one thing is you have to cut your paneer cubes a little big, so i soaked that paneer in some hot water so it gets soft. I used cherry tomatoes to make it look beautiful, if you cannot get it, you can use normal tomatoes which is cubed.

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Chilli Paneer Ingredients

Onion – 2 large peeled and finely chopped
Spring Onion White Part – from 4 chopped finely

Capsicum / Bell Pepper – 2 large cubed
Cherry Tomato – 20

Garlic – 3 tblspn finely chopped

Ginger – 3 tblspn finely chopped

Green Chilli – 5 chopped very finely

Salt to taste

Sugar to taste

Tomato ketchup – ½ cup or to taste

Red Chilli Sauce – 3 tblspn or to taste

Green Chilli Sauce – 3 tblspn or to taste

Soy Sauce – 1 tblspn or to taste

Vinegar – 2 tsp or to taste

Chilli Flakes- 1 tblspn

Spring Onion green part – from 4 chopped finely
Oil – 2 tblspn

For Frying:

All Purpose Flour / Maida – ½ cup

Corn Flour / Corn Starch – ¼ cup
Salt to taste

Chilli Powder -1 tsp

Water as needed

Oil – for deep frying

Chilli Paneer Preparation

• Start by making the sauce. Heat 2 tblspn of oil. Add in ginger, garlic and chillies. Saute for a min.
• Add in onions, capsicum and saute for couple more mins. Sprinkle salt, sugar and mix well. Add in all the sauces and mix well. Cook on a low heat till oil separates from this. Add in chilli flakes and mix well. Set aside.
• Heat oil for deep frying. Take all the ingredients given for batter in a bowl, add in water and make it to semi thick batter. Dip the paneer in the batter and fry till golden. Remove it to a plate.
• Now heat the sauce again. Add in capsicum, cherry tomatoes and mix well and cook for a min.
• Add in the fried paneer and toss.
• finely chopped green part of spring onion and mix well. Take small toothpicks, put the cherry tomato first then capsicum piece and then the paneer piece. Serve

Pictorial:

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Take all your ingredients

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You need these basic sauces

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Heat oil in a pan

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add in garlic, ginger and chillies

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saute for a min

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add in onions and spring onion white part

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add in salt and sugar

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cook till it is well cooked

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add in green chilli and red chilli sauce

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add in soy sauce

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add a dash of vinegar

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mix well and simmer it till you get the paneer ready

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take a block of paneer..this is a 500 gram block

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cut it into pretty big cubes

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take it in a bowl

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cover with hot water

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let it sit for 15 mins or so

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Now take flour, cornflour, salt, chilli powder in a bowl

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add in water to make a little thick paste

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take a paneer cube

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dip in the batter

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fry till goldne

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drain and set aside

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Now the sauce is thick

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add in chilli flakes

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capsicum and cherry tomatoes

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add in paneer cubes

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add in spring onion green part

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Now for serving..take some toothpick

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insert a cherry tomato

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now a capsicum

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and a paneer cube