Chilli Paneer Recipe Dry

Best Paneer Recipe

If you have ever read my previous recipes you would know my craziness for non-veg dishes and how much I love to cook non-veg than vegetarian dishes. But there are some vegetarian dishes that I really love, chilli paneer is one among those. It is a Chinese dish.

The method of preparation varies in different parts of world due to choice of spices and other ingredients. I can’t say it is a low calorie food but can definitely say it is really a delicious vegetarian dish. This recipe is for 2-3 people.

Ingredients for Dry Chilli Paneer:

• Paneer(8 oz cut into small cubes, here I used just ¼ of this paneer slab)
• Corn flour(1/2 tsp)
• Red chilli powder(1tsp/ you can use according to your taste)
• Red Onion (1/2 cup cut into cube size)
• Capsicum/green bell pepper(1/4 cup cut into cube size)
• Ginger(1/2 tsp minced)
• Garlic(1/2 tsp minced)
• Soya sauce(1tsp)
• Green chilli sauce(1tsp/ can use as per your taste)
• Red chili sauce(1tsp/ can use as per your taste)
• Oil(for deep frying)
• Salt(to taste)

How to Make Chilli Paneer:

• Cut the paneer into small cube size pieces as shown in the picture.
• In a small bowl add corn flour, red chilli powder and salt. Mix well all the dry ingredients with paneer.
• Take frying pan, add oil and let it heat till oil become hot. Now add the coated paneer to the oil and fry it till it turns slight brown.
• Take another pan heat 1tsp of oil when oil become hot add chopped ginger, garlic to it and saute for a while.
• Add onion and capsicum, again fry it till it is half cooked.
• Add soya, red and green chilli sauce to the fried onion and capsicum.
• Add fried paneer pieces to this sauce, mix all the ingredients well and saute it for 2-3 minutes in a low to medium flame.(if you want you can add very little amount of water to it and boil till it is dry).
• Now your chili paneer is ready to serve.

You can serve it hot with chapatti, poori, rice or naan whatever you like. I love to eat this with poori. If you know any other way of making chilli paneer please share with me.