Sweet and Sour Paneer (Paneer Manchurian)

A sweet and sour curry of pineapple,bell peppers and cottage cheese

 INGREDIENTS-
preparation time-10 min
cooking time- 10 min
serve-4

• Cottage chesse or tofu,cubed- 1 cup
• Pineapple,diced-3/4 cup
• Red bell pepper,cubed- 3/4 cup
• Green bell pepper,cubed-3/4 cup
• Ginger chopped-1 tsp
• Cooking oil-1.5 tsp

To make sauce- 

• Pine apple juice- 1 cup
• Water-2.5 cup
• Corn flour--3 tsp
• Tomato ketchup- 2 tbsp
• Soya sauce- 1tsp
• Sugar-1.5 tsp
• White vinegar- 1 tsp
• Pepper powder- 1 tsp
• Salt- 1tsp

PROCEDURE-

1. Take a big bowl and add all the ingredients for making sauce and mix well.(A)
2. Dust the paneer pieces with 1.5 tsp of cornflour and a pinch of salt and then shallow fry in 1.5 tbsp oil ,to a nice pink colour(don't over cook )-this step is optional,you can directly add the panner pieces without stir frying them
3. In a pan add oil,when it become warm add ginger and saute for few seconds.
4. Now add chopped bell peppers and saute for a minute.
5. Add paneer and pineapple pieces,saute for few seconds.
6. Pour the ready sauce(A)in the pan and cook  for 5-7 minutes on medium heat.
7. If you feel that the consistency of the gravy is still thinner then you can add some cornflour slury at this stage.
8. Switch off the flame and add vinegar and mix well.
9. Serve hot.

Serving suggestions-Serve with fried rice,steamed rice or noodles

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