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Home Made Paneer Easy

Straightforward Kerala cooking — good ingredients treated well, spiced with confidence, and served without pretence. The kind of food that tastes like someone's kitchen, not a restaurant.

Ingredientsfor 4 servings

Full Cream Milk : 1 Ltr
Lemon (Normal size) : 1 no

Preparation

Step 1
Boil the Milk.
Step 2
Get the juice from lemon and keep it ready separately.
Step 3
When the milk is well boiled, add the lemon juice and stir it well.
Step 4
Continue to boil the milk in low flame and stir it.
Step 5
After about 3 - 5 minutes of adding the lemon juice in the boiled milk and stirring it continuously, the solid curds part from the green and watery whey.
Step 6
Get a sieve (arippa) and put a piece of thin white cloth on it.
Step 7
When complete solid curds part from the green and watery whey, turn off the heat and change the watery whey and solid curd into the cloth kept on the sieve and allow to cool it.
Step 8
Press the solid curd / paneer with a spoon so that the watery whey will be removed from the curd / paneer.
Step 9
Wrap the solid curd / paneer with a thin cloth.
Step 10
Enter Step.
Step 11
Keep the wrapped solid curd / paneer in the sieve.
Step 12
Put some heavy material on top of this cloth to squeeze out the moisture from the solid curd / paneer.
Step 13
After about half an hour, open the cloth and the pure paneer will be ready.
Step 14
Enter Step.
Step 15
Cut this paneer in small pieces (or as needed) and it can be used for making various recipes.
Step 16
Enter Step.

Tip

Coconut oil is the default cooking fat in Kerala kitchens. It adds a depth of flavour that other oils simply cannot match in these recipes.

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Home Made Paneer Easy

Straightforward Kerala cooking — good ingredients treated well, spiced with confidence, and served without pretence. The kind of food that tastes like someone's kitchen, not a restaurant.

Ingredientsfor 4 servings

Full Cream Milk : 1 Ltr
Lemon (Normal size) : 1 no

Preparation

Step 1
Boil the Milk.
Step 2
Get the juice from lemon and keep it ready separately.
Step 3
When the milk is well boiled, add the lemon juice and stir it well.
Step 4
Continue to boil the milk in low flame and stir it.
Step 5
After about 3 - 5 minutes of adding the lemon juice in the boiled milk and stirring it continuously, the solid curds part from the green and watery whey.
Step 6
Get a sieve (arippa) and put a piece of thin white cloth on it.
Step 7
When complete solid curds part from the green and watery whey, turn off the heat and change the watery whey and solid curd into the cloth kept on the sieve and allow to cool it.
Step 8
Press the solid curd / paneer with a spoon so that the watery whey will be removed from the curd / paneer.
Step 9
Wrap the solid curd / paneer with a thin cloth.
Step 10
Enter Step.
Step 11
Keep the wrapped solid curd / paneer in the sieve.
Step 12
Put some heavy material on top of this cloth to squeeze out the moisture from the solid curd / paneer.
Step 13
After about half an hour, open the cloth and the pure paneer will be ready.
Step 14
Enter Step.
Step 15
Cut this paneer in small pieces (or as needed) and it can be used for making various recipes.
Step 16
Enter Step.

Tip

Coconut oil is the default cooking fat in Kerala kitchens. It adds a depth of flavour that other oils simply cannot match in these recipes.

Cook this in the app

Step-by-step cooking mode, grocery list, and meal planning — free on Mageiro.

Download on the

App Store

Get it on

Google Play

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