Amritsari Paneer Tikka Recipe

Amritsari Paneer Tikka Recipe

Ingredients:

• 500 gm paneer
• 1/2 pinch black pepper
• 6 tablespoon dried fenugreek leaves
• 1 pinch powdered cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon carom seeds
• water as required
• 1 teaspoon ginger paste
• 4 tablespoon powdered lemon juice
• 1/2 cup refined oil
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 8 tablespoon gram flour (besan)
• salt as required
• 2 teaspoon chilli flakes
• 1 teaspoon garlic paste

Recipe :

• Step 1

  To start with, heat oil in a non-stick pan on medium flame and add carom seeds to it. Let them splutter for a few seconds, and add chilli flakes in the pan and saute for another few seconds.

• Step 2

  Next, add ginger-garlic paste along with cinnamon powder and saute for a few seconds. Saute for a minute till the raw smell of garlic goes away and then add gram flour. Let it roast for about 2 minutes till the colour of gram flour changes to brown. Afterwards, add the crushed kasoori methi or the dried fenugreek leaves and saute for another minute.

• Step 3

  Adjust salt and black pepper as per your taste and mix well to coat. Cook for a while and then switch off the burner, and transfer the pan contents to a deep bowl.

• Step 4

  To the bowl, add sugar along with lemon juice and mix well to incorporate all the ingredients well. Meanwhile, cut the paneer into cubes.

• Step 5

  Now, add paneer cubes to the pan and mix it gently, coat well and let them marinate for about 30 minutes. When done, heat oil in a non-stick pan and add the pieces of paneer cubes on it one-by-one.

• Step 6

  Cook it for a while over a medium flame until lightly coloured and then flip and cook from the other side as well until colored and crisp. When all the paneer cubes are cooked, transfer to a serving plate. Serve hot with green chutney.