Paneer Crispy Dry Recipe ( Cheese Sticks )

Crispy Cheese Sticks (Paneer) is a dry cheese (paneer)  recipe you can serve as starter and also serve with parathas. Best part of Crispy Cheese Sticks is that it is crispy on the outside but soft and juicy inside.It is a mouth watering delight that everyone will love to eat .

Crispy Paneer

Ingredients:

• 300 gm Fresh paneer (Cottage Cheese)
• 1 inch ginger, peeled and grated
• 3-4 cloves of garlic, minced
• 2-3 green chilies, thinly sliced (or as per taste)
• Powder of a salty biscuit (like Monaco or 50-50)
• 1/2 tsp pepper powder  
• Tomato sauce as per taste 
• 2 medium  onion chopped in long slice
• Salt to tas
• 1 capsicum chopped in long slice
• 1/2  cup  corn flour
•   few springs of cilantro/coriander leaves, chopped ( for garnishing )

Preparation:

1.            Cut paneer (Cottage Cheese) in small size of around 2 inch long.

2.            Take a mixing bowl, add chili powder, salt, ginger, garlic, and corn flour to it carefully because the mixture should not be too thick and mix well.

3.            Dip paneer in the mixture and coat with biscuit and fry until it has become golden brown.

4.            Take another pan add 2 spoon of oil and heat for 2 minutes. After this add chopped onion and capsicum and then fry for 5 to 6 minutes.

5.            Add fried paneer (Cottage Cheese) to this mixture.

6.            Add tomato sauce and cook for 3 to 4 minutes. 

7.            Place in a serving bowl and Garnish paneer (Cottage Cheese) crispy with chopped coriander leaves and salads.

Gobhi Musallam Recipe (Cauliflower)

Cauliflower Mussalam

 Gobhi Musallam (Cauliflower) is a Awadhi Dish. Musallam is a mughal word meaning whole and this dish means a whole Gobhi (cauliflower). This dish was loved by all the nawabs (lords) in North India so if you want to set out a princely treat Gobhi Musallam is the dish for you.

Ingredients:

1.    1 full  cauliflower

2.    2 tsp turmeric powder (haldi)

3.    1 tbsp oil

4.    1 cup grated onions

5.    1 tsp garlic paste

6.    1 tsp ginger paste

7.    1 tsp cumin seeds powder

8.    1 tsp coriander powder

9.    1 tsp chilli powder

10. salt to taste

11. 1 tsp garam masala

12. 1/2 cup tomato puree

13. 1 tbsp chopped coriander

Method

1. Boil the cauliflower in the salted water with 1 teaspoon turmeric powder till half cooked. Keep aside.
2. Heat the oil in a deep frying pan (Kadhai) and add the grated onions and fry until golden brown in colour.
3. Add the ginger paste, garlic paste, cumin seeds powder(jeera), coriander seeds powder (dhaniya), remaining turmeric powder, garam masala, chilli powder and salt, stir for half a minute.
4. Add the tomato puree and cook for next 10 minute (make as thick gravy).
5. Add half cooked cauliflower and cook for 10 minutes.
6. Serve hot and garnish it with chopped coriander and salads.

Chinese Mushroom Manchurian Recipe

Mushroom Manchurian

Mushroom Manchurian is a very tasty Chinese dish that can be served with noodles or fried rice or can be served with paranthas.It can also be used as a starter

Ingredients:

• 200 gm Fresh mushroom
• 1 inch ginger, peeled and grated
• 3-4 cloves of garlic, minced
• 2-3 green chillies, thinly sliced (or as per taste)
• 1/2 tsp pepper powder 
• 2 tsp soya sauce 
• tomato sauce as per test  
• 2 medium  onion chopped in long slice
• salt to taste
• 1 capsicum chopped in long slice
• 1/2  cup  cornflour
• few springs of cilantro/coriander leaves, chopped ( for garnishing )
• 1/2 carrot slice( for garnishing )

Preparation:

1. Marinate mushrooms with soy sauce, salt, chilli powder, pepper powder, and ginger garlic paste, set aside for about 1 hours
2. Take a mixing bowl, add rest of the chilli powder, salt, and corn flour to it carefully because the mixture should not be too thick and mix well.
3. Combine the marinated mushrooms with mixture and mix well till all the mushrooms are well coated.
4. Heat the oil in a pan over high flame, and deep fry the mushrooms in it, for about one minute.
5. Heat a little oil in another pan and fry the chopped green chillies, garlic and capsicum for a minute add soya sauce fay for another 2 min
6. Add the fried mushrooms to it and fry for about one minute add tomato sauce fry for another 1 min
7. Place in a serving bowl and Garnish Mushroom Manchurian with chopped coriander leaves and carrots.

Paneer Lollypop or Drumstick Recipe

Paneer Lollypop

Paneer Lollypop is a vegetarian version of chicken drumstick and looks very much like it. It is starter or snack dish served with ketchup

Ingredients:

• About 200 gms grated Paneer (cottage cheese)
• 1 inch ginger, peeled and grated
• 3-4 cloves of garlic, minced
• 2-3 green chillies, thinly sliced (or as per taste)
• 2 large potatoes boiled
• 1 medium  onion, chopped or grated
• salt to taste
• 13-16 pieces of baby corn
• 2-1/2 tbsp  cornflour
• about 1/4 cup of all purpose flour (maida)
• few springs of cilantro/coriander leaves, chopped

Preparation:

1. Steam the potatoes with the skin.
2. Once steamed, mash it well and add it along with the rest of the ingredients except all purpose flour.
3. Make small round balls of the dough 
4. Now pierce the dough ball with the thicker end of the baby corn.
5. Shape them into drumsticks.
6. Place drumsticks in fridge for 1/2 hr ( this will help you while frying as dough will not break)
7. Heat cooking oil in frying pan
8. Fry each drumsticks one by one, make sure it is evenly browned on all sides.
9. Wipe with tissue paper to remove  extra oil
10. Serve with ketchup or chatni