Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chanar paturi (paneer / cottage cheese cooked in banana leaf). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Drain and make a smooth paste of the soaked mustard seeds along with grated coconut, green chilies in a mortar pestle or grinder jar. Generally we Bengali make fish paturi using Iilish or hilsa ,Bhetki or Baramundi and chingri or prawn. In those recipes,fish is marinated in mustard paste wrapped in banana leaf or pumpkin leaf and cooked through slow cooking.
Chanar Paturi (Paneer / Cottage Cheese cooked in Banana Leaf) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Chanar Paturi (Paneer / Cottage Cheese cooked in Banana Leaf) is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chanar paturi (paneer / cottage cheese cooked in banana leaf) using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chanar Paturi (Paneer / Cottage Cheese cooked in Banana Leaf):
- Take 200 gm paneer, mashed
- Make ready 1/2 cup fresh grated coconut
- Get 2 tsp mustard seeds
- Make ready 2 green chilies
- Prepare 10-12 cashew nuts
- Take 2-3 tsp Poppy seeds
- Make ready 2 tbsp yoghurt, well beaten
- Prepare to taste salt
- Get 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Prepare few extra fresh green / red chilies
- Get 2-3 tbsp coriander leaves, chopped
- Get banana leaves as required
- Take 3 tbsp mustard oil
Bengali cuisine in details : Bengali cuisine, the cuisine of the West bengal state of Indian subcontinent is famous for the maach (fish) and bhaat (rice) combo. chanar paturi (paneer wrapped in banana leaf) A delicacy of Bengal is 'Paturi'. Generally, oily fish is sliced evenly and then wrapped in banana leaf after the fish has been hit by a basting of a freshly pounded mustard with a hint of green chili, coconut, mustard oil, turmeric and salt; baked or roasted on very slow heat. Parcels of mustard-coated paneer steamed in banana leaves for a perfect evening. The basic idea is to cook the paneer in a wilted banana-leaf envelope.
Instructions to make Chanar Paturi (Paneer / Cottage Cheese cooked in Banana Leaf):
- Grind the cashew nuts, mustard seeds, green chilies and coconut to a smooth paste. Mix along with yoghurt, salt, turmeric powder, 2 tbsp. mustard oil, coriander leaves and paneer.
- Heat a tawa / pan and place the banana leaves on them for a few seconds on both sides. This will help it to become more pliable so that it can be easily folded without breaking.
- Place some of the paneer mix in the centre along with a chilli & fold them.
- Tie with a string & keep aside. Do the same with rest of the paneer mix.
- Heat the remaining oil in a pan & gently place all the folded banana leaf parcels. Cover and cook for 4-5 minutes.
- Carefully flip them over & cook the other side too till done.
- Enjoy with hot steamed rice.
If you do not find banana leaves at your local grocers, you may use tender pumpkin leaves or a foil instead. However, the hallmark of this dish is its distinctive aroma, which only a banana leaf can lend. In the case of Paturi, you need a leaf to cover the Chana (in this case) and that follows the steaming.. Chana Bhapa is a Bengali delicacy cooked with Chana/ Paneer/ Cottage cheese where the chana is steamed with the spices. Cottage cheese wrapped and cooked in Banana leaf with an interesting mix of aromatic flavors.
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