Paneer Tikka || Paneer Tikka Dry || How to prepare paneer tikka on pan

Paneer Tikka recipe on pan explained with step by step pics. Paneer or Cottage cheese is one of the favorite food item for vegetarians, which is full on demand item in Indian parties and functions. Today's my recipe paneer tikka is popular starter ordered by many of us. We can prepare this paneer tikka easily at home for kitty parties or on any special days. Using non-stick frying pan without oven in simple steps. Onions, capsicum, paneer are marinade in spiced yogurt and then insert the veggies and paneer cubes to a wooden skewer and then pan fry it. Isn't it look easy to prepare 😊😊. Point to be noted here  is if you are using normal Tawa then coated masala will stick to tawa as roast, so it's preferred to use non-stick frying pan to get good texture. 

      I tasted few of paneer starters, curries, pulaos and sweets when i was working and when i was in Odisha. I got chance to learn few varieties of  paneer when i was in Khurda(Odisha). Though I learned to prepare paneer at home, we use to purchase paneer from shop (Kolkata sweet stall @Khurdha) as we get good quality of paneer in less price 😉.  For this paneer tikka spices used to marinade veggies and paneer cubes plays main role. Besan flour is used as binding agent which is roasted along with Ajwain adds aromatic flavor to paneer tikka. If you don't have wooden skewer you can also use tooth pick. I showed you two process to roast the marinade veggies and paneer. I used 1st process using wooden skewer and second using tooth pick. 

Let's start recipe... 

                  PANEER TIKKA

Preparation Time : 1 hour
Cook Time : 20  to 30 minutes
Serves : 6 people 
Category : Starter
Recipe Cuisine: Indian 
Main ingredients : Paneer
Author : ArunaSarasChandra

Ingredients 

Paneer - 200gms
Yogurt / Hung Curd - 2 cups
Onions - 2 large
Capsicum - 2 
Turmeric powder -  1/4 tsp
Red chilli powder - 1 and 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
Black pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
Besan powder(shanaga pindi) - 3tsp
carom seeds /Ajwain -  1/2 tsp
Salt - as per taste
kasuri Methi - 1 tsp
Chaat masala - 1 tsp
Lemon juice - 1 tsp
Oil - 5 tsp

Instructions to prepare Paneer Tikka

1)  Take a bowl add thick curd (hung curd). If your curd is not thick filter curd in a muslin cloth and hang it for 15 - 20 min. 

2) Cut the veggies in dice, also cut the paneer into cubes. 

3) Take a pan add besan(gram flour) and Ajwain. 

4) Fry it till you get nice aroma. 

5) Add all the spices into curd  one after other. 

6) Squeeze lemon into the bowl. 

7) Mix all the ingredients well. 

8) Firstly add veggies mix it smoothly. 

9) Now add paneer cubes to the above along with 1 tsp of oil mix it well with your hands so that paneer cubes do not break and marinade coats veggies and paneer evenly. (mix everything gently). 

10) Cover the lid and keep the marinade veggies and paneer cubes in refrigerator for an hour. 

11) After an hour remove the above from fridge and give a quick saute once. 

Process - 1

12) Insert capsicum to the wooden skewer first. 

13) Then diced onion. 

14) Later cubed paneer. 

15) Repeat the process of  inserting on same as shown below. 

16)  Repeat the process for remaining veggies and paneer cubes as shown below. ( Donot press the veggies and paneer cubes, maintain little bit gap so that marinade part will cook properly).

17) Take a non-stick pan add 1 tsp of oil, place the wooden skewer. Brush some oil on top of tikka's so that it would not stick to pan

18) Roast it by holding both sides of skewer rotating all sides so that the marinade veggies and paneer will cook well. Roast it on medium flames otherwise it will burn. (This is the important step)

19) Continue the same process for remaining and take into plate. 

Process - 2

20) Take a pan add 1 tsp of oil  place the marinated diced veggies first. Roast it both sides, here slightly marinade part leaves the veggies have to take care while roasting. 

21) Take the veggies in a plate and place paneer to roast. 

22) Roast it both sides. 

21) Now continue inserting roasted veggies and paneer cubes to the tooth pick. 

Yummy and tasty paneer tikka's are ready to serve😋😋

Note

 ◆ You can use ginger garlic paste (in step - 3). 

◆ You can also use red and yellow capsicum as per availability. 

◆ You can also use different veggies like baby potatoes, tomatoes, baby corn etc.,

◆ You can also use oven or grill to roast this paneer tikka's. 

◆ If avaialble use Kashmiri red chilli powder to get good color to the tikkas. 

◆ Increase/decrease the quantity of curd and spices depending on paneer you have.

Tips

● If you feel coated veggies and paneer sticking to pan just add little amount of oil and rotate it, maintain low or medium flame.

● Use thick curd so that veggies and paneer will be coated well with masala. 

● Marinade  veggies and paneer minimum 30 min. (It's must to get good taste to tikkas)

● Rotate the tikka's while roasting otherwise the marinade part will stick to the pan. 

● Use non-stick pan to get good tikkas. 

● Order of inserting veggies and panner depends on your wish😊. 



Check out few curry  and other recipes👇 

                              Kaju curry

               paneer butter masala

                          Kadai Paneer

                      khova paneer 

          Stuffed paneer capsicum

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