Paneer Recipe | How to make Paneer at home
Paneer recipe is an unsalted white Indian cottage cheese. It is used mostly in North Indian cuisine. It is made out of milk, adding acidic flavors to it.
Ingredients
- 1 Ltr Full Fat Milk
- 2 Lemons Juice
Instructions
- Add little water in a thick bottom pan.
- Add 1 liter milk to it and allow it to cook in low flame.
- Let the milk boil for five minutes.
- Once the cream starts forming on top it, mix it well.
- Take juice of two or three lemons. Pour it in the boiling milk slowly.
- While adding lemon juice stir the milk continuously.
- When the milk starts curdling, switch off the flame.
- Allow the milk to curdles completely. Remove from flame.
- Take a muslin cloth or any thin or any fresh kitchen cloth.
- Strain the milk and drain the whey.
- Collect the edges of the cloth together and tie it tightly and place it on a plate.
- Place any heavy weight on it, I used my mortar and pestle's base.
- Remove the heavy weight after 30 mins, by which time paneer should be set.
- Cut it in desired shape.
- We can use paneer maker to do the same which is available in markets now a days.