Recipe: Delicious Hot and Sour Paneer Cubes

Hot and Sour Paneer Cubes. Paneer is prepared by adding food with acidity to hot milk which ends up separating the curd from he whey. Paneer is used in many Indian Main course dishes such as Malai Paneer, Palak Paneer, Matar Paneer. The traditional hot and sour soup recipe call for Chinese dry shiitake mushroom.

Homemade paneer is very easy, quick to make and it is economical and hygienic as well. Learn how to make paneer, I have shared step by step photos. FOOD ACID: It can be lemon juice or white vinegar or plain sour yogurt or whey kept from previous paneer making. You can have Hot and Sour Paneer Cubes using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Hot and Sour Paneer Cubes

1. Prepare 200 gram of paneer.
2. Prepare 3 tsp of rice flour.
3. Prepare 4 tsp of refined flour.
4. Prepare 1 cup of Orange juice.
5. You need 1/2 cup of water.
6. You need 1 tsp of Salt.
7. You need 1/3 tsp of black pepper.
8. It's 2 tsp of Red chilli sauce.
9. It's 5 of chopped garlic cloves.
10. It's 1 of chopped spring onion leaves.
11. Prepare 1 pinch of Orange food colour.
12. You need 1 tsp of smoked bbq sauce.
13. It's 1 tsp of honey.
14. You need 1 tsp of oil for greasing.

The method I shared here, I learnt. Cut paneer into bite size cubes. Take all the ingredients for batter and make into a smooth paste by adding water. Add in the cubed paneer pieces and Heat oil for deep frying and fry the paneer pieces on both sides till they are golden.

Hot and Sour Paneer Cubes instructions

1. Cut the paneer into cubes.
2. In a bowl mix all the flours, spices and water,mix properly and keep it aside for 30 mins..
3. Take a pan, heat orange juice, add the mixed flours, sauces and honey, keep stirring. Add chopped garlic and spring onion(green part) and food colour too, cook till it's consistency gets thicker..
4. Let the prepared mixture gets little cool and then covers the paneer cubes with this prepared mixture..
5. Grease the grill Pan and grill all the prepared paneer cubes for few mins..
6. Serve Hot and Sour Paneer Cubes with favourite dip..

Drain on to some paper towel. Pictorial The paneer cubes can be fried and made ahead. When you are ready to eat, make the sauce and toss the paneer pieces in it. This is a must-try dish if your family loves Indo-Chinese. Once the oil is hot, dip each paneer cube into the batter, and drop it gently into the oil ,fry till light golden brown in colour.