Paneer is an Indian cottage cheese and bhurji means scrambled. This is a very popular Indian dish. Cheese is easily available in any Indian grocery store. But it is very easy to make at home too. Here, I am giving recipe of paneer bhurji with homemade paneer.
Egg bhurji (Anda bhurji) can be made exactly the same way by replacing paneer with boiled eggs.
Ingredients:
- 3 cups whole milk
- 2 tbsp lemon juice (vinegar can be used instead)
- 4 green chilies-slit and cut into pieces
- 1 cup sliced onions
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- Salt
Method:
- Boil milk in a sauce pan
- Then add lemon juice and ½ tsp salt to milk
- Do not stir too much
- Milk will start getting curdling
- Once all milk gets curdled leaving water separately, turn off the stove
- Place a muslin cloth over the colander and pour curdled milk to the cloth
- Bring all the edges of muslin cloth together and squeeze the paneer to drain off excess whey
- Then rinse cheese under cold water and again squeeze to drain off excess water
- Make a knot and put it in a container
- Put something heavy on it
- After 20 minutes, take out paneer
- Take oil in a pan and heat it
- Add mustard seeds and cumin seeds and let them pop
- Add green chili pieces and saute them
- Then add onions, mix and fry them until they turn pink or golden
- Add salt and turmeric powder, mix well
- Lastly, add scrambled paneer to it
- Mix well, adjust salt and cover it
- Once paneer starts changing color to light brown in some areas (as shown in the pic), turn off the stove
- Garnish it with cilantro if interested
- Enjoy! It makes a great side with roti or naan. You can make sandwich or paratha by using paneer bhurji.
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