Paneer “stuffed potato”

Paneer “stuffed potato” Recipe

Recipe Type: Lunch/Dinner| Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Preparation Time: 15 mins | Cooking time: 40 mins     | serves: 2-3

Fried potato alone tastes too crispy and yummy and when you put it in any sabzi then you can make just awesome recipe. Here is a recipe that combines the great taste of aloo with benefits of paneer. For this recipe, you would need medium size aloo. Aloo is every household food and available in every kitchen. If you are getting bore with all those regular aloo based sabzi then its time to prepare this new yummy recipe in very less time. This recipe just needs 3-4 aloo to serve  dinner for 2-3 people. This one can be called as “cheap and best” recipe…so don’t wait…lets start preparing it :-)

Ingredients:

3 medium size potatoes (boiled)

½ teaspoon cumin seeds

¼ cup maida (all-purpose flour)

1 Cinnamon stick

3 teaspoon oil

1 star anise

1 tejpatta

1 cup milk

Oil for deep frying

Salt as per your taste

 

Masala Ingredients:

4 tomatoes

1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste

2-3 green chili

1 onion

¼ teaspoon food color

1 teaspoon garam masala

1 teaspoon coriander powder

Stuffed aloo Ingredients:

4-5 cubes paneer

Coriander leave(finely chopped)

1/4 teaspoon Red chili powder

¼ teaspoon garam masala powder

Salt as per your taste

Kitchen utensils required:

• 2 non-stick pan (I prefer: Vinod Zest Non- Stick Friendly Pan)

• 2 Spatula (I prefer: PINDIA Wooden Curved Spoons)

• 20 bowls (I prefer: Borosil Mixing Bowl)
• 1 Mixer-grinder( I prefer: Prestige Hero 550- Watt Mixer Grinder)
• 1 Grater (I prefer: Pearl Store Easy Grater)
• 1 cooker (I prefer: Prestige Popular Aluminum Pressure Cooker, 3 Liters)

                                           Step by step procedure:

Make stuffed potatoes

 Step-1 First, boil potatoes in a cooker, then take boiled potato and cut it into two equal parts. Now take one part and takeout potatoes from inside for stuffing of potatoes. Use spoon to take out potatoes from inner part. 

 

Step-2 Mix all the stuffed aloo Ingredients and fill stuffing inside the hole you made with spoon. Prepare all potatoes. Mix maida in water and make thick paste of maida. Now dip stuffing part side of potato and dip it in maida and deep fry potatoes in hot oil. Similarly prepare all stuffed potatoes.

To make gravy

Step- Heat nonstick deep fry pan, add oil, cumin seeds, cinnamon stick, star anise, tejpatta.
Step-2 Now make fine paste of all the masala ingredients in a grinder. Add masala paste in pan, cover it with lid and cook it for 4-5 minutes at low flame. 

Step-3 When masala is cooked well then at low flame add milk (slowly with continuous stir) and let it boil once. When it is cooked then add salt, water and let it cook for 2 minutes on medium flame.

Step-4 Add stuffed potatoes in the gravy and garnish it with coriander leaves.

Serve hot with plain paratha or enjoy it with pulav..

Tips:

•  Don’t add too much water for gravy.

•  Don’t add too much stuffing in potatoes.

•  Cook masala very well.
• Always add milk on low flame and slowly with a continuous stir otherwise milk will curdle.

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