Baked spicy paneer sticks/ Indian cottage cheese snack recipe
Baked spicy paneer sticks / Indian cottage cheese snack recipe / A simple and delicious low-fat snack recipe made with paneer, besan, and spices. Serve baked paneer sticks with green chutney or tomato sauce in the evening with a cup of tea.
Ingredients
- 225 gm low-fat homemade paneer
- ¼ cup besan
- 1 tsp oil
- 1 pinch heeng
- 1 pinch baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp roasted cumin seeds powder
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds white til
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1 tsp Maggi masala powder
- ⅓ cup cornflakes crumb
- 1 tbsp cornmeal for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 200 degrees Celsius for about 10-12 minutes.
- Sprinkle some cornmeal on a baking tray and put it aside.
- Cut paneer into long stips of 2-3 inches. Keep them aside.
- Take a bowl, add besan, baking soda, salt and heeng to it. Add water and make a thin batter. Put it aside.
- Transfer cornflakes crumb to a plate. Add salt, oregano, Maggi masala, red chilli powder, roasted cumin seeds powder. Mix well.
- Now in the besan batter, add oil and mix well.
- First, dip paneer strips into the besan mixture one by one and then coat with crumb mixture. Place them on the baking tray leaving little space between them. Repeat with the rest of the paneer pieces.
- Place the tray in the preheated oven and grill them for about 15-17 minutes. Donot forget to turn them in between and bake until they get a nice golden colour.
- Take it out from the oven. At this point, these are very soft in texture. Leave them on the baking tray for 2-3 minutes and then serve warm with green chutney.
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Notes
1. Paneer should be a little firm for this recipe.
2. You can also add other seasonings of your choice like dry Kasuri methi, mix herbs, dry basil, garlic powder or onion salt, etc.
3. For a Vegan recipe, replace paneer with tofu.
4. You can also replace cornflakes crumbs with bread crumbs, rice flakes crumbs, oats flakes or even ground daliya powder.
5. As paneer sticks are very soft after removing from the oven, leave them on the baking for 2-3 minutes and then serve.
6. You can also deep fry them but the calories increases.