Home - made Paneer | Cottage Cheese Recipe
- Apr 25, 2017
- 2 min read
Cottage cheese (paneer) is used to make various recipes and bengali sweets. Paneer to make recipes is easily available in the market, but the quality available cannot be used to make bengali sweets like rasgulla, chamcham, rasmalai etc.
The quality of paneer available in the market is very hard as compared to the chenna used to make the Bengali sweets. It is not made with full cream milk. You can make paneer at home if you plan to make any kind of bengali sweet, instead of using paneer available in the market.
If you stay at the place, where paneer is not available in the market, then you can easily make it at home with few simple steps. So lets make Paneer (cottage cheese) at home.
Ingredients for making Paneer
Full Cream Milk - 1 ltr.
Vinegar or Lemon juice - 2 table spoon.
How to make Paneer ( Cottage cheese) at home.
Always use full cream milk to make paneer at home.
Firstly boil the milk.
Once the milk starts to boil add lemon juice or vinegar into it. Within few minutes you will see that the milk starts to curdle. Turn off the flame and continuously stir it but very lightly not vigorously.
Now use a colander and put a thin cloth over it an drain all the water from it.
After draining squeeze out all the water from it.After that take it out from the cloth. Chenna to make Bengali sweets is ready.
If you want to use this paneer to make any curry recipe, then do not takeout the paneer from the cloth. Instead place a heavy object on the cloth or refrigerate it for half an hour. Within half an hour, the paneer will become hard. This can be used to make Indian curry recipe like matar paneer, palak paneer, paneer butter masala etc.
For full Recipe in Hindi
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