Restaurant style Chili Paneer

Restaurant style Chili Paneer

Let’s make restaurant style chili paneer today. This is a one of the popular Indo-Chinese recipes. You can call this vegetarian version of chili chicken. This is one of most requested recipes. It is a very easy and simple recipe. I will share tips and tricks to make perfect chili paneer. Another important thing is we are not using MSG or Ajinomoto in this recipe!! You can try this recipe at home and drop a comment for me.

In this recipe simple batter coated paneer cubes are fried and spiced up with Chinese flavors and spices. It can be served as appetizer or even as main course. You can make it dry, semi dry or in gravy. It is popular for its flavor, creamy texture pf paneer and also spiciness of Indi-Chinese sauce. If you try this recipe at home, I am sure all will like it!!

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Some Interesting facts about Restaurant style Chili Paneer :-

This is a real quick yet delicious recipe. Basically, Indo-Chinses is one of the popular cuisines. This recipe is loved by one and all because of the tenderness of paneer and flavorful sauce. You can call this an extended vegetarian version of chili chicken. Also I am sharing few tips to make perfect chili paneer, to maintain moisture of paneer, to make the outer covering of paneer crispy etc. I think, you should try this recipe.

Restaurant style Chili Paneer

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Serves: 4 People Preparation Time: 10 Minutes Cooking Time: 20 Minutes 20 Minutes

Nutrition facts: 200 Calories 20 grams Fat

Rating: 4.7/5

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Ingredients

• 1 cup Maida
• 1/2 cup Corn flour
• Salt to taste
• 1/2 tsp black Pepper powder
• Water as needed
• 400 gm Paneer
• Oil for frying
• 2 tbsp Oil
• 10~15 finely chopped Garlic cloves
• 1” finely chopped Ginger
• 1 finely chopped Onion
• 1 finely chopped Carrot
• 5~6 finely chopped French beans
• 1 finely chopped Capsicum
• Chopped Green chilies
• 1 Onion chopped into cubes
• 1 Capsicum chopped into cubes
• 1/2 tsp black Pepper powder
• 1 tbsp Soya sauce
• 1 tsp Chili sauce
• 1 tbsp Tomato sauce
• 1 tsp Corn flour
• Water as needed
• Chopped spring Onion

Instructions

Step 1: Mix maida, corn flour, salt and black pepper powder well together and add a little water at a time to make little thick batter.

Step 2: Heat up oil on medium heat and when oil is hot enough increase the heat to high.

Step 3: Dip the paneer cubes into the maida batter and drop them into hot oil.

Step 4: When paneer cubes get nice light golden color from all sides, take them out, drain excess oil and transfer them into a dish.

Step 5: Heat up oil in high heat and add garlic.

Step 6: Fry for few seconds and add ginger. Fry for few seconds.

Step 7: Add onion, carrot, French beans, capsicum, green chilies and cubes of onion and capsicum and fry everything well together on high heat for just 1 minute.

Step 8: Add black pepper powder, soya sauce, chili sauce and tomato sauce and mix in quickly.

Step 9: Mix corn flour and water together to make slurry and add this slurry into the veggies.

Step 10: Mix well and cook it together for just about a minute.

Step 11: Add spring onion and fried paneer cubes and mix everything well together.

Step 12: Add spring onion and mix well. Chili paneer is ready.

Notes

• You can use rice flour in place of corn flour.
• You can add salt in the sauce if you want.

Recipe Video

Servings

This is yet another easy, simple starter recipe. It looks nice and tastes super delicious. You can serve it as appetizer or as main course too.