Tiranga Paneer Tikka

Ingredients

• 400 grams cottage cheese (paneer), cut into 2 inch cubes
• ½ cup grated cottage cheese (paneer)
• 1 cup hung yogurt  
• 2 tablespoons gram flour  
• 1 tablespoon ginger-garlic paste
• 4 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander leaves 
• 3-4 green chillies, chopped
• 1 teaspoon white pepper powder
• 1½ tablespoons lemon juice
• Salt to taste
• ¼ cup grated khoya/mawa
• 5-6 saffron strands
• ½ tablespoon red chilli powder
• Thick green chutney as required
• Melted butter for greasing and basting
• Onion rings for serving
• Lemon wedges for serving

Method 

1. To make a marinade mix together hung yogurt, gram flour, ginger-garlic paste, coriander leaves, green chillies, white pepper powder, lemon juice and salt in a bowl.  
2. Slice each cottage cheese cube into 3 layers without cutting through.
3. Mix khoya, saffron strands and salt in another bowl. Mix grated cottage cheese, red chilli powder and salt in a third bowl. Take green chutney in a fourth bowl.
4. Take each cottage cheese cube, stuff cottage cheese mixture in the first layer, khoya mixture in the second layer and spread chutney in third layer.
5. Spread the prepared marinade all over the stuffed cottage cheese cubes so that all the cubes are evenly covered with the marinade. Set aside for about 1 hour.
6. Preheat the oven at 200º C. Grease a baking tray with some butter.
7. Thread the paneer cubes onto skewers, place them in the baking tray keeping sufficient distance between each.
8. Keep the tray in the preheated oven and cook for 10-12 minutes. Baste with butter at regular intervals.
9. Bring the tray out of the oven, place the skewers on a serving platter and serve hot with onion rings and lemon wedges and green chutney.