Paneer Aloo patty

Preparation time-30mins
serves-4
Ingredients:
250gms grated paneer
4 boiled aloo
250gms boiled green peas
1 big onion
100 gms ginger
20 green chillies
2 spns salt
1 sp chilly powder
5 sps besan
1 sp whole jeera
500ml sunflower oil
Method:

1. Mash boiled aloo and peas seperately into fine paste.
   
2. Finely chop onion and mix them with mashed potato.
3. Grind ginger and chillies to a fine paste and mix half of it with aloo mash and onion.
4. Mix the remaining half with green peas mash.Add 3 pinches of salt to it and keep aside.
   
5. Add besan,chilly powder,1 spoon of salt and jeera to the aloo mash and knead well.Keep it aside for 10mins.
6. Now grate paneer and mix 3 pinches of salt and make 4 small paneer balls with your palm.
7. Meanwhile heat oil in a wide sauce pan.When hot,turn it onto low heat.
8. Spread peas mash on your palm and place paneer ball on it and close it with peas mash.
9. Paneer ball should be surrounded by peas mash.Now slowly press it with your fingers as you make laddu.
10. Now same way spread some aloo-onion mix and place this paneer peas ball on it and close it.
11. Same way press tightly into round ball.This will be a little big one when done.
12. Now fry each ball on low heat slowly turning on both sides till brown.
13. When done,collect them in a plate and cut each patty into two halves slowly and exactly in the middle.
14. Now we can see different layers of paneer in the centre,green peas in the middle and brown potato mash on the outer surface.
15. This is a little long procedure but worth trying it.
16. Tastes Great with hot chilly-tomato ketchup.
17. Best and colorful snack.
18. Try and let me know how you got it!

Palak Paneer curry (Indian cottage cheese gravy)

Ingredients:
250 gms paneer (sliced to cubes)
500 gms palak
1 cup milk
2 medium sized onions
3 fresh tomatoes or 1 cup puree
4 spoons butter/ghee
small piece of cinnamon
1 sp whole jeera
3 green chillies
4 red chillies
2 pods garlic
3 pinches salt
1 sp garam masala powder
Preparation:

1. Wash and blanch palak in hot water for 5mins.
2. Add ghee to hot sauce pan and fry sliced paneer pieces until golden brown.Do not over fry.
3. Take out the paneer and put them in a bowl of milk for 5mins.
4. In the same pan fry chopped onions,chillies,garlic and tomato for 2-3mins.
5. Remove excess water from palak and add to the frying pan and on low heat fry it for 4-5mins.
6. Allow it to cool and then grind it into a thick paste.Now transfer this to the pan.
7. Add paneer pieces to the gravy and also a spoon of butter,salt and garam masala.
8. Close the lid and simmer it for 5mins.Garnish with fried jeera,cinnamon and coriander.
9. Tastes excellent with rotis,naan and also rice.
10. Check the recipe for butter naan.Try it with this curry.You will love it!
    
11. Rich in nutrients and iron.