Paneer bhurji recipe | Easy paneer recpies

Paneer bhurji is one of the easiest paneer recipes that can be made with less effort and time. This is the first time I am making this in spite of that its so easy. I had this at my friend Sangeeta’s place when she was here. Now its almost 3-4 years, but this is the first time I am making this at home. I loved it a lot and its simple way to make too! This can be a perfect lunch box idea, you can even wrap the paneer bhurji in roti for your kids. They would love it.
I made this with store bought frozen paneer, you can even try making this with homemade paneer. If you have curdled milk, just try drain the milk and make paneer and try paneer bhurji, you can utilize the curdled milk in this way! You can be creative with this recipe, try adding peas or carrot, it will be nice.

Paneer bhurji recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Lunch sides
Prep Time: 5 mins    |  Cook time: 10 mins    |  Serves: 3

Ingredients

Paneer cubes - 2 cups

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Onion - 2

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Capsicum - 1

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Red chilli powder/ pepper powder - 1/2 tsp

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Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp

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Dhaniya/ coriander seeds powder - 1 tsp

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Lemon juice - 1 tsp

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Milk - 2 tblsp

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Ginger, finely chopped - 1 tblsp

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Green chillies - 2

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Coriander leaves, finely chopped - 2 tblsp

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Jeera - 1 tsp

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Oil - 1 tblsp

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Method

1. If you are using frozen paneer, either thaw it until room temperature or boil water and keep immersed for 10 minutes. Drain the water completely and crumble it in a mixer(just add in two batches and give it a run)

2. Heat a pan with oil and splutter jeera, add finely chopped ginger and green chillies, followed by finely chopped onion. Fry till transparent and add the chopped capsicum.

3. Fry for a minute without changing its crispiness and add coriander leaves, all the powders and give it a quick stir without burning them. Add milk, salt and cook for 2 minutes until the milk evaporates.

4. Now lastly add crumbled paneer and mix well. Fry for 2 minutes or until dry and add the lemon juice and mix well.

Notes

• If you want to add frozen peas, cook it in microwave and add it in the end of step 2. For carrots, just add it after onion and fry along.
• You can omit lemon juice and add a tomato chopped along with capsicum.
• I used tri coloured capsicum.
• You can skip ginger too!

Serve hot with roti or naan or any stuffed parathas too…Wrap it or just have it as a side dish, you can even eat its as such! Tastes awesome and damn easy to make!