Paneer Pasanda

Ingredients

• Cottage cheese (paneer) - 200 grams
• Lotus seeds (makhana) - 1 cup
• Maida - 1 cup
• Green color - 1/4th teaspoon
• Orange color - 1/4th teaspoon
• Mawa - 50 gram
• Salt to taste

Step - I

• Take a fry pan and put 2 tablespoon oil, upon heating fry 1 cup makhana. Strain out and keep aside.

Step - II

• Take 50 gram mawa in a bowl and mix 1/4th teaspoon orange color and a pinch of salt. Mix properly.

Step - III

• Take 200 gram paneer and cut it into thin slices and fill orange color mawa in the centre like sandwich. Keep it seperate.

Step - IV

• In a bowl take 1 cup maida, 1/4th teaspoon green color and some water, mix well and make a paste of it. Then marinade the paneer sandwich in the paste and deep fry the sandwiches.

Spices to grind

• Tomato - 4 (boiled)
• Onion - 2 (boiled)
• Makhana - 1/2 cup
• Coriander seeds - 1 teaspoon
• Green cardamom - 3
• Red chilli powder - 1 teaspoon
• Green chilli - 2
• Ginger-garlic paste - 1 teaspoon
• Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon
• Spices mixture - 1 1 /2 teaspoon
• Curd - 2 tablespoon

How to cook

• Put all the ingredients in a mixer and grind it fine.
• Take a fry pan and put 4 tablespoon oil , upon heating put the grind ingredients till it leaves oil in the pan.
• Parallely, put 1/2 cup fried makhana and 2 tablespoon mawa, salt to taste.
• Stir the gravy well and take a boil then turn off the flame.

How to serve

Take a oval shaped dish and fill it with the gravy then place half paneer sandwich and garnish it with coriander leaves.