You may have tasted paneer, fish and chicken pakora (fritters)in restaurants. Now you can also make some delicious paneer pakora at home with just a few ingredients. Paneer is not only a delicious daily item, it can provide huge nutritional value. Vegetarian people love to have paneer for their lunch and dinner. If you do not know if your guests are vegetarian or non-vegetarian, then do not take any risk and make some paneer pakora for them. Packing this for your lunch or your kid’s lunch? Make sure you pack them in an insulated lunch kit or in your kid’s lunch box.
Nutritional value of paneer pakora:
You will get 1800 calories, 95gm carbohydrates, 78.5gm proteins, 126.5gm fat and 29.5gm fibre from this recipe.
Ingredients
cottage cheese or paneer: 250 gm
gm boondi: 25
oil: 3 Tbsp
gm garlic cloves: 10
Red chili Powder: 2 tsp
gram flour: 20 gm
salt to taste
ginger-garlic paste: 1 tsp
Red chili Powder: 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder: 1/2 tsp
gm baking soda: 5
How To Make Paneer Pakora
- Cut the cottage cheese into cubes. Grind the boondi and keep the pasted boondi in a separate bowl.
- Make some garlic chutney by heatinga pan. Add 1/2 tsp. oil andsauté the garlic. Mix the garlic with 2 tsp. red chili powder and salt and make a smooth paste with it.
- Make the batter by mixing gram flour and ginger-garlic paste. Add 1/2 tsp. red chili powder, turmeric powder and baking soda into the bowl. Mix well and add little water if needed.
- Spread the garlic chutney between two paneer cubes as filling.
- Heat a pan with remaining oil. Dip the filled paneers into the batter and roll in the crushed boondi. Fry until crisp and golden brown. Drain on paper towels.
- Serve hot with some chutney or plain tomato sauce.