Chutney Paneer

Ingredients list for Chutney Paneer

• 250 grams Paneer (cottage cheese)
• 18-20 Aam papad pieces
• 1 tablespoon Oil
• 2 Banana leaves cut into 8 pieces
• Chutney
• ½ cup Fresh mint leaves roughly chopped
• 1 cup Fresh coriander leaves roughly chopped
• 1 tablespoon Bengal gram (daalia) roasted
• 5-6 Garlic cloves
• ½ inch ginger peeled and sliced
• 2 Green chillies
• 1 medium Onion
• to taste Salt
• Juice of 1 lemon

Method

1. To make chutney, put mint leaves, coriander leaves, roasted Bengal gram, garlic, ginger and green chillies in a mixer jar. Quarter onion and add to the mixer along with 4-5 tbsps water and salt and grind till smooth. Transfer into a bowl, add lemon juice and mix well.
2. Thickly slice cottage cheese and slit the slices without cutting through.
3. Insert 3 aam papad pieces in the slits of each cottage cheese slice.
4. Coat the stuffed cottage cheese slices with the chutney.
5. Heat oil in a non-stick pan
6. Place banana leaf pieces on worktop, place one cottage cheese slice on each piece and fold the leaf to make a packet.
7. Place the packets in the pan, cook till the underside is browned, flip and cook on the other side similarly.
8. Arrange the banana packets on a serving plate, open one of the parcels and serve immediately.

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