Paneer Pakoda (Cottage Cheese Fritters)
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Recipe type: Starters
Cuisine: Indian
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Ingredients
  • 250 grams paneer (cottage cheese) cut into cubes of 1.5-2 inches cubes
  • 100 grams besan (gram flour/chickpea flour)
  • 100 grams barik sev
  • 10-12 cloves of garlic
  • 2 tsp red chili powder
  • 1.5 tbsp lime juice
  • 1 tsp red chili powder
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder
  • 2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
  • A pinch of baking soda
  • Cooking Oil
  • Salt
Instructions
  1. To begin with, we will make garlic chutney.Grind garlic, red chili powder, lime juice, ½ tsp salt into a fine and thick paste.
  2. Ensure that consistency of garlic chutney is fine and thick. If it gets too thin it would be hard to make a stuffing of it.
  3. For batter, we will take gram flour. Add turmeric powder, red chili powder, ginger garlic paste, baking soda, salt as per taste. Add sufficient water to make a batter of medium thick consisitency.
  4. Break the barik sev by rubbing them between your palms.
  5. We will stuff paneer with garlic chutney. Make a slit into paneer pieces. Do not cut them into two pieces but only create a pocket.
  6. Stuff all the paneer pieces.Meanwhile heat oil in a pan for deep fry.
  7. Dip paneer cubes into batter and get them nicely coated.
  8. Now put the paneer in sev and coat it from all sides.
  9. Deep fry the coated paneer cubes
  10. Deep fry the Paneer cubes until it becomes golden brown from all sides.
  11. Repeat the process for remaining paneer cubes.
  12. Sprinkle some chaat masala on top of paneer pakoda. Serve it with mint chutney
Recipe by Kali Mirch - by Smita at https://kalimirchbysmita.com/paneer-pakoda-cottage-cheese-fritters/