Paneer (पनीर), also known as Indian cottage cheese, is one of the most popular ingredients in Indian cuisine. It is used in many dishes, sweets, starters, and breakfast recipes, including Palak Paneer, Sondesh, Chilli Paneer, Malpua, and many more. Sometimes cottage cheese is the main ingredient, while other recipes use it as an add-on.

As a vegetarian, I love cottage cheese more than almost any other vegetable or ingredient. I often add cottage cheese to my breakfast and snacks, especially dishes like sandwiches.

I often see people buying cottage cheese from the market, but How to Make Paneer at home is actually very easy. So, why buy it when you can make fresh cottage cheese yourself? Make your own cottage cheese at home and enjoy your favorite dishes with fresh, homemade cottage cheese.

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How To Make Paneer – Cottage Cheese?

Recipe by Vipasha

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Course: How to?, Veg FoodCuisine: Indian

Servings

250

grams

Prep time

minutes

Cooking time

minutes

Calories

750

kcal

Total time

hour

minutes

This Cottage Cheese (Paneer) can take row and can make dish like Shahi Paneer, Palak Paneer, etc.

Ingredients

Full cream milk (पूरी मलाई वाला दूध) – 1 litre
Lemon (नींबू) – 1

Directions

Squeeze the lemon to take lemon juice, remove seeds from lemon juice. Keep aside.
Over the deep bowl layer the strainer and then layer cheesecloth or muslin cloth or kitchen cloth.
Now in a deep patili, add milk and bring it to boil.
When milk start boiling add lemon juice.
When milk completely curdled remove from heat and strain through muslin cloth and strainer on deep bowl (Which we assemble above)
Now take all four edges of cloth and tie each end to make potli of milk curdles.
Place it over the wire rack; put a deep bowl under the wire rack (So, the water removed from milk curdles not mesh your kitchen.) over this potli weep heavy weight like stone or marvel piece. Let it be for 30-40 minutes.
When 40 minutes over check it, your paneer would be set, if not keep it more in same position until not completely set.
Your homemade paneer it ready, use it now or refrigerate in air tight container for later use.

Notes

You can keep this homemade paneer for 3-4 days.
The stock (water) separated from paneer can be used to make curry dishes.

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