Cottage Cheese (paneer) Cutlets

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 2 cups cottage cheese, grated (paneer)
• 2 teaspoons gram flour (besan)
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste
• 3 -5 fresh green chilies, washed and chopped,to taste
• red chili powder, to taste
• 1 pinch turmeric powder
• 1 cup chopped onion
• salt, to taste
• oil, for frying

Recipe

• 1 put the grated cottage cheese in a bowl.
• 2 add the gramflour, green chillies, ginger-garlic paste, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, salt to taste and the chopped onions.
• 3 mix extremely well.
• 4 make round balls, about 1 inch in diameter, out of the mixture.
• 5 gently, flatten all the balls.
• 6 heat oil in a flat frying pan.
• 7 place the flattened balls on the pan.
• 8 shallow fry the balls on either side till they turn golden brown.
• 9 drain on clean paper towels.
• 10 serve hot with tomato ketchup or corriander and mint chutney (recipe posted separately).
• 11 enjoy!