Easy Paneer cutlet – Cottage Cheese Patties Recipe

Paneer or cottage cheese is a rich source of protein and calcium. Most of the people love to have it. Here is a quick and easy recipe of baked/fried paneer cutlets that are tasty and crispy.

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Ingredients:

How to:

Vegetable filling for the patties – 

• Heat some oil in a pan and when the oil is hot, add chopped ginger to it.
• Add chopped onions, grated carrots, and chopped capsicum to the pan. Sauté them.
• When the onions become translucent, add the chopped green chilies.
• When the vegetables are cooked well, turn off the flame and keep the vegetables aside and allow it to cool.
• With a vegetable masher, mash all the vegetables.

Make the patties – 

• Now take a big bowl and add the mashed potato to it.
• Crumble or grate the paneer (cottage cheese).
• Add corn flour, red chili powder to the bowl. And add salt to taste.
• Add finely chopped coriander leaves. The fresh aroma of chopped coriander will give it a nice flavor.
• Now add the cooked vegetables into that bowl.
• Mix all the ingredients very well.
• Now shape the cutlets with your hands. The shape will be round and flattened.

For the batter –

• Now in another bowl make a thin batter with the gram flour (besan) adding some water to it. Mix well to form lump free batter.

Deep or Shallow Fry –

• Heat oil in a frying pan. Take the cutlets one by one, dip them into the gram flour batter. Coat them thoroughly with the bread crumbs and shallow fry or deep fry them.
• When they become golden brown in color, remove them from the oil and plate them.

Baking –

For baking, brush some oil on tops of the patties and bake in preheated oven at 180 degree Celsius until the top of the patties turn golden and crisp.