Chili Paneer

Instructions

• Wash and chop paneer into big square pieces.
• Add ginger-garlic paste, black pepper powder, a little soya sauce.
• Mix everything well together.
• When the paneer is coated well with spices keep it aside for about 10-15 minutes.
• Take 1 tsp corn flour into a bowl.
• Add 2 tsp water and mix well to make slurry.
• Add about 1-2 tsp maida in marinated paneer and mix well so that it well get coating of maida.
• This helps in keeping the coating of spices intact while deep frying paneer.
• Take remaining corn flour & maida into a bowl.
• Add salt, water and mix well to make batter.
• The batter should be nice and thick. No lumps of any flour should be formed.
• Drop the paneer cubes into the batter and coat them well with batter.
• Heat up oil on medium heat.
• Drop the paneer cubes into hot oil. You can shallow fry paneer if you want.
• Fry paneer until it turns deep golden from all sides.
• Turn off the gas and take paneer out into a dish.
• Heat up 1 tbsp oil in a pan.
• When the oil is smoky hot, break and add in dry red chilies in it.
• You can use fresh green chilies in place of dry red chilies.
• Add garlic, ginger and fry for just about 30 seconds.
• Add onion, green pepper and mix well.
• Fry on high heat for just about a minute so that veggies retain their crunch.
• Add tomato sauce, soya sauce, chili sauce and mix well.
• Add black pepper powder, salt and mix well.
• Add salt carefully as sauces contain salt.
• Stir the corn flour slurry once and add it into the pan.
• Add a little water and mix well.
• Adding corn slurry gives saucy consistency to this dish.
• Add fried paneer and mix well quickly.
• Paneer should be well coated with the sauce.
• Chili paneer is already.
• Garnish with spring onion.