Friday, September 7, 2007

Paneer or Cottage Cheese Mint Fritters


Here comes another tea time snack....Paneer is also one of my favorites and would try all sorts of recipes in cottage cheese. Vegatarians should include cottage cheese in their diet atleast twice a month as its a good source of protein. People on Diet can avoid recipes of paneer which are deep fried.
You Will Need,

Paneer cubes - 25
Besan or gram flour- 6 tsp
White or self raising flour - 2 tsp
Corn flour - 2 tsp
Red or kasmiri chilly pdr - 1 tsp
Onion - 1 [finely chopped]
Jeera - 1tsp
Green chilly - 2 [finely chopped]
Mint leaves - a hanful [finely chopped].
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying

Method:

Mix all the flours together in a mixing bowl. Add salt, jeera, green chillies, red chilly powder, mint leaves, and onion and mix well.
Sprinkle water and make a thick dough which is consistent enough to drop in oil. The Batter should'nt be watery..Lesser the water, more crispier the fritters.
You can also substitute mint leaves with coriander, But I love the flavour of mint.
You can either crush the paneer cubes and add it to the batter, or jus dip the paneer cubes in the batter and deep fry.
Deep fry until golden brown. Serve hot with tea.

PS: Just substitute cauliflower florets for paneer to make cauliflower fritters. :-)

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