Paneer Stuffed Hara Bhara Kabab
Servings: 10 Patties
Ingredients
For Stuffing
- ½ cup Paneer grated
- 1 tsp Oil
- ½ tsp Chat Masala
- ½ tsp Red Chilli Powder
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 4 Garlic pods minced
- ½ onion Onion finely chopped
For Kabab
- 2 Medium Potatoes Boiled & Mashed
- 1 Cup Spinach leaves Blanch & squeeze excess water
- ½ cup Green Peas blanched & mashed roughly
- 1 tbsp Ginger grated
- 4 Green Chillies finely chopped
- ½ tsp Chat Masala
- ½ tsp Salt
- 2 tbsp Coriander leaves finely chopped
- 2 tsp corn starch (to be added with veggies)
- 2 tsp corn starch (for dusting of patties)
- 1 cup Oil for shallow frying
Instructions
Preparing Stuffing
- Heat 1 tbsp oil. Put minced garlic and finely chopped onion and saute till translucent.
- Add grated paneer/ cottage cheese, ½ tsp red chilli powder, ½ tsp chat masala and salt as per taste.*(*Recipe note).
- Saute for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and keep aside to cool.
Preparing Kabab
- Blanch spinach leaves.
- After 3 minutes remove from hot water and wash with cold water immediately.
- Remove from water and squeeze out the water completely.
- Blanch green peas and mash roughly.
- Cook potatoes and peel and mash completely.
- Add all ingredients together and make a dough like mixture.
- Take small portion of the mixture and make a ball.
- Make a pocket by pressing with thumb.
- Put half spoon of stuffing in the pocket and press to close the pocket.
- Then roll the ball on corn starch and press it gently with fingers to give a patties-like structure.
- Apply cornstarch on both palms.
- Shallow fry the patties in a pan.
- Flip it gently with help of tong. and fry both sides. don't fry for more than ⅔ minutes as it won't take more time for shallow frying.
- Garnish and serve with coriander chutney or schezwan chutney.
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Notes
- Chat masala also contains salt so taste and add salt accordingly.
- Make sure potatoes are not over boiled and completely dry. If possible keep in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Squeeze out blanched spinach leaves to remove excess water.
- Cool all ingredients before adding corn starch to avoid stickiness.