Recipe: Delicious Tandoori Paneer Tikka

Tandoori Paneer Tikka.

You can have Tandoori Paneer Tikka using 33 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Tandoori Paneer Tikka

1. You need of Basic marination.
2. You need 1 of standard measuring cup curd.
3. Prepare 1 tbsp of lemon if the curd is mild.
4. You need of Salt.
5. It's 1 tbsp of kasoori methi.
6. You need 1 tsp of ginger garlic paste.
7. You need 2 tbsp of roasted chanaflour / powder of roasted salty chana.
8. It's 1 tbsp of mustard oil.
9. Prepare of Flavoured marination - Green pasto.
10. You need Handful of Corriendar leaves.
11. You need Handful of mint leaves.
12. It's 5 cloves of garlic.
13. You need 1 tsp of sugar.
14. You need of Salt.
15. It's 1 tsp of lemon juice.
16. Prepare 5 of green chillies.
17. It's of Flavoured marination - Peri Peri.
18. You need 1 tsp of more/less spicy red chilli powder.
19. You need 1 tbsp of very mild chilli powder.
20. You need of Veggies.
21. You need 400 gr of paneer cubes (square).
22. Prepare 1 of standard measuring cup diced green pepper.
23. You need 1 of standard measuring cup (or a little less) diced onions.
24. It's of For Grilling.
25. It's of Butter.
26. You need of Mustard oil.
27. It's of For serving.
28. You need of Thinly sliced onions.
29. It's of Thinly sliced cabbage.
30. Prepare of Salt.
31. Prepare of Lemon.
32. You need of Chat masala (seasoning for green Pasto kababs).
33. You need of Kasoori methi (seasoning for peri peri kababs).

Tandoori Paneer Tikka instructions

1. Combine ingredients for basic marination. Gently fold and combine. Divide it into two equal portions..
2. Combine ingredients for the green Pasto in a mixure jar and make paste. Add this paste in one portion of the basic marination. You can also add some dry mint powder if available. Add few cubes of Paneer, capsicum and onions to this marination and gently fold and combine everything using your hands..
3. Add chilli powders to the other part of the basic marination. Add few cubes of Paneer, capsicum and onions to this marination and gently fold and combine everything using your hands..
4. Now take the BBQ sticks, and start passing it through the veggies and paneer. Start and finish with the hardest veggi (capsicum) in order to hold paneer firmly in between. Veggies should be tightly close to each other. Be very gentle..
5. Grilling : 1. On a pan (grill pan preferable), take some mustard oil. Bring it to a smoking point. Then add some butter and place the BBQ sticks made ready with veggies. Brush some butter over it. Grill evenly on all sides. DO NOT COMBINE TWO FlaVOURS IN THE SAME PAN. 2. You may cook it directly over gas flame/ tandoor / charcoal flame. 3. Grill on high flame. 4. If you want to add tandoori flavour, you can smoke it up with charcoal..
6. Squeeze lemon over the grilled veggies, sprinkle the seasoning and serve hot with onion- cabbage salad..
7. Variation : 1. Achari paneer kabab : add a tsp (more /less) of mother's recipe achar and 1/4 tsp turmeric powder to the basic marination. 2. Kesari paneer kabab : add roasted saffron strands and a drop of orange food colour to the basic marination..
8. Tips: 1. Cutting veggies in the appropriate size is very important. Too small cubes will break on the stick. Too thin and small paneer will also break on the stick. 2. Paneer cubes must not be too thick and too big. It will taste plain from inside if too thick. 1cm thickness should be enough. 3. You can use thick slices of a potato at the two ends to hold all the veggies and paneer in-between firmly on the stick. 4. Do not overcook or else paneer will get chewy..
9. 5. Use fresh and firm paneer that is perfectly moistured. Much moistured paneer will break on the stick and too dry paneer will crumble and break too. 6. Add lemon juice in the basic marination if your curd is mild..
10. My mistakes as seen in the pics: 1. I used very thick slices of paneer. 2. I mixed up two flavours on the same pan. 3. I used dhosa pan. The oil was rolling down to the sides..