Recipe: Tasty Tandoori Paneer

Tandoori Paneer. This is the best Tandoori Paneer Tikka in the oven you'll ever make at home! Same restaurant style taste, but roasted in a home oven. Making tandoori paneer tikka in the oven at home is serious business guys.

Paneer Tandoori is a scrumptious and easy-to-make North Indian recipe as it uses readily available ingredients in the kitchen like paneer, curd, meat masala and ginger-garlic paste. If you are done with garam masala loaded paneer dishes like Paneer Butter Masala, Kadhai Paneer and Shahi Paneer, this paneer recipe is a welcome variation as it. Paneer tikka masala is a favorite dish both in North and South India although the dish itself may have originated in North India. You can cook Tandoori Paneer using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Tandoori Paneer

1. Prepare 250 grams of Paneer (4 piece paneer).
2. It's 1/2 cup of thick curd.
3. Prepare 1 tsp of Tandoori masala powder.
4. You need 1/2 tsp of ginger garlic paste.
5. It's 1/4 tsp of chat masala.
6. It's Pinch of Tandoori colour.
7. Prepare 1/2 tsp of kasoori methi.
8. You need to taste of Salt.
9. It's 1 of Small capsicum.
10. It's 1 of Small onion.
11. You need 1 tsp of olive oil.

Traditionally, paneer is roasted in a tandoor or a clay oven, but here you use your oven. Add the paneer and gently stir in to coat. Thread the paneer onto metal skewers alternating with pepper and onion, then place on a baking tray lined with foil. Tandoori Paneer Tikka is the perfect starter/appetizer and even a great dinner for tandoori tikka lovers.

Tandoori Paneer step by step

1. Take a bowl and add curd, add Tandoori masala powder, salt, ginger garlic paste and Tandoori colour kasoori methi and oil mix well.
2. Add paneer pieces and marinate for 15 mins..
3. Meanwhile cut capsicum and onion into square pieces.
4. You can use either a tandoor, oven, stove or grill to bake the paneer. Bake until it’s golden brown..
5. Similarly bake the capsicum and onions..
6. Once it’s baked place the paneer, capsicum and onion on top of each other with the help of a tooth pick..
7. Note-Take all ingredients as per your paneer pieces..

In India, a party without tandoori starters is not a party at all. Be it a get-together, barbeque, or dinner parties, tandoori dishes are a must. Tandoori paneer tikka is a popular dish made from vegetables and a soft Indian cheese, paneer. The cheese is cut into cubes and marinated in a delectable blend of spices and yogurt. Then you put the marinated cheese and vegetables onto wooden skewers.