Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, paneer tikka with italian mix spice and pesto yogurt dip. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
For Paneer Tikka; Chunks of Paneer (cottage cheese) are marinated in Indian spices and yogurt along with bell peppers and onion and grilled. I have given a novel twist to the spices used in this recipe and made an. Paneer tikka is made from paneer cubes marinated in Indian spices and yogurt, grilled on the stove-top or baked in the oven.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook paneer tikka with italian mix spice and pesto yogurt dip using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Paneer Tikka with Italian mix spice and Pesto yogurt dip:
- Prepare 250 gms Paneer
- Get 1/2 green bell pepper cut in 1 inch squares
- Get 1/2 , red bell pepper cut in 1 inch squares (you can use tomatoes as well, just deseed the tomatoes and cut in squares)
- Take 1/2 onion cut in 1 inch squares
- Get Marinade
- Make ready 2 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
- Get 1 tbsp Mixed Italian Herbs
- Make ready 1 tsp (or less) Crushed red chilli
- Get 1 1/4 tsp Salt
- Get 1/8 tsp Turmeric (optional/ for colour)
- Take Pesto yogurt dip
- Take 1/2 cups basil leaves (or 1/2 cup coriander with few tulsi leaves)
- Make ready 1 clove garlic crushed
- Get 1 1/2 tbsp chopped pine nuts or walnuts
- Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- Prepare 1/2 cup curd/yogurt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt or to taste
- Take Garnish
- Take Basil leaves: few
How to make Pesto Paneer Tikka: Take a mixing bowl. Add hung curd, pesto sauce and salt if required. Mix well Mix drained yogurt, ginger-garlic paste, lemon juice, turmeric, chile powder, cumin, garam masala, and salt together in bowl. Add paneer, onion, and green bell pepper and mix well.
Instructions to make Paneer Tikka with Italian mix spice and Pesto yogurt dip:
- Cut the Paneer in 1 inch chunks. In a big bowl combine the bell peppers, onions and all the ingredients under marinade. Add paneer to it and very gently mix everything together. Let the paneer and vegetables sit in the marinade for 15-20 minutes.
- Take metal skewers and pierce the Paneer and vegetable chunks on it. Hold the skewer using gloves or silicon handle. Turn on the gas and grill the tikkas and vegetables on an open flame till it is well roasted and black spots appear on them. Keep turning the skewers for even roasting. It doesn’t take much long. 1-2 minutes of grilling is sufficient.
- One good option to get even roasting is to skewer the vegetables together and the Paneer chunks together in different skewers. As paneer and vegetables have different grilling time. Take out in a platter.
- For the pesto yogurt dip, grind the basil, garlic, nuts, olive oil, salt and yogurt to a fine paste in a mixer grinder.
- Serve the Italian paneer tikkas along with the pesto dip.
The process is pretty simple, you marinate the paneer with spices and yogurt, let it sit for a bit so that the flavors mix well together and then arrange the paneer cubes along with onion and peppers in a skewer and grill. However, the taste of paneer tikka lies in its marination of course. In a heated sauce pan, add the oil and cook the onions and garlic until fragrant. Add the pizza sauce, cumin, salt and pepper. Paneer Tikka is a spicy grilled Indian Cottage Cheese dish.
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