Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chanar paturi (paneer / cottage cheese cooked in banana leaf). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Chanar Paturi is an authentic Bengali recipe of paneer that is flavored with mustard, coconut and green chillies and steamed in pumpkin leaves. Paneer is called as Chanar in Bengali language. This recipe is a vegetarian adoption of popular Bengali fish recipe paturi, one of the royal dishes of Bengali cuisine.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chanar paturi (paneer / cottage cheese cooked in banana leaf) using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chanar Paturi (Paneer / Cottage Cheese cooked in Banana Leaf):
- Prepare 200 gm paneer, mashed
- Prepare 1/2 cup fresh grated coconut
- Prepare 2 tsp mustard seeds
- Take 2 green chilies
- Make ready 10-12 cashew nuts
- Get 2-3 tsp Poppy seeds
- Prepare 2 tbsp yoghurt, well beaten
- Prepare to taste salt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready few extra fresh green / red chilies
- Get 2-3 tbsp coriander leaves, chopped
- Make ready banana leaves as required
- Make ready 3 tbsp mustard oil
The basic idea is to cook the paneer in a wilted banana-leaf envelope. 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. 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.
Steps 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.
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. Chhanar paturi or steamed cottage cheese. An easy to make paneer or cottage cheese dish from Bengali cuisine. You can make paturi with fish, eggs or any vegetable following this recipe.
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