Paneer Tikka at home without Tandoor | Simple and Easy recipe to cook Paneer Tikka on Stove
Who doesn't love to eat paneer starters? There is no reason not to, they are so yummy and tasty after all. Ordering dining starters is a common thing you will see no matter which part of the world you visit. Specially in India, when we visit restaurants, Paneer Tikka is one of the favorite meal starters recipe which many of us like to order. So here I am sharing a way to enjoy this delicious recipe with ease at your own home.
In this blog, I am going to share step by step recipe to show how you can cook Paneer Tikka at home on stove, which will taste as yummy as cooked on tandoor. Not all of us have tandoor at our homes but that shouldn't be a reason to not enjoy this recipe. Here is the way which will allow you to cook Tandoori Paneer Tikka but without using a tandoor - just on your stove, with same technique of flavoured marination, so simple and easy.
About Paneer Tikka
In case if you don't know, Paneer is the name given to Indian cottage cheese. If you are interested to know how you can make it at home then visit my other blog about how you can cook super soft paneer at home. This is a homemade Paneer Tikka but just tastes like a restaurant styled Paneer Tikka. This recipe for Paneer Tikka has all spices and flavours needed to fulfil our taste buds. We get a variety of Paneer tikkas in restaurants like - Achari Paneer Tikka, Kali Mirch (Black Pepper) Paneer Tikka and many more. And this recipe which I am going to explain is a mix of all those flavours.
With this Paneer Tikka recipe, I have a special cabbage salad and Mint Chutney to serve it with. Both the cabbage salad and mint chutney recipes are also explained in this blog. Mint chutney would hardly take 2 to 5 minutes time to prepare and cabbage salad will be ready in just 10 minutes too.
The main task for preparing this cabbage salad is to shred the cabbage, rest all is just to add required spices in it and give it a mix. If you also want a complete chutney recipe made using cabbage, then visit this blog for Cabbage Chutney recipe, which you can quickly prepare and enjoy daily.
If you also like main course recipes made using paneer (cottage cheese), then visit my blog for Kaju Malai Paneer Recipe, you are going to love it.
To check many more such tasty food recipes, you may also visit FoodQuench’s YouTube Channel.
Let's check the recipe for restaurant styled but homemade Paneer Tikka. If you would like to see this recipe in video format, then here is the YouTube Video for Paneer Tikka recipe.
- 2 tablespoons Clarified Butter (Ghee)
- 1/4 cup Gram Flour
- 1/2 cup Hung Curd
- 2 tablespoons Fresh Cream
- 1 tablespoon Mustard Oil
- 1 teaspoon Garlic
- 1 teaspoon Ginger
- 2 teaspoons Green Chilli
- 1 teaspoon Black Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Chaat Masala
- 1 teaspoon Coriander Powder
- 1 teaspoon Cumin Powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric
- 1/4 cup Water
- 400 grams Cottage Cheese
- 200 grams Green Capsicum (2 large)
- 200 grams Tomato (2 to 3 large)
- 100 grams Onion (1 large)
- 1/2 cup Curd
- 1/2 cup Coriander
- 1/2 cup Mint
- 4 sticks Green Chilli
- 1/4 stick Ginger (1/4 inch)
- 1/4 teaspoon Black Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Anardana
- 1/2 teaspoon Cumin Powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1 tablespoon Oil
- 4 Ice Cubes
- 2 tablespoons Water (only if curd is thick)
- 2 cups Cabbage (Shredded)
- 2 Green Chilli (sliced)
- 1/2 teaspoon Chaat Masala
- 1/2 teaspoon Black Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Black Pepper Powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Lemon Juice
Heat a kadhai and add 2 tbsp ghee to it. Then add besan to it.
Roast besan for 2 to 3 minutes on medium flame. Besan quickly thickens when you add it to ghee. However, stir and keep roasting until it's lightly roasted and turns fluffy.
Remember not to dark roast besan because we want to give a yellowish look to Paneer Tikka.
Once besan is light roasted, take out and keep it aside, we need it later.
Cut all the veggies and paneer in rectangle or square shape. But, make sure all of them are of similar size.
Now for preparing marinade, add below ingredients to a bowl and mix well.
- Hung curd
- Fresh cream (homemade malai)
- Mustard oil
- Roasted besan
- Finely chopped garlic, ginger and green chilli
- Chaat masala
- Coriander powder
- Cumin powder
- Black salt
- Regular salt
If paneer tikka marinade is very thick, add some water and mix well.
You can visit this YouTube Video for complete Paneer Tikka recipe to get a detailed view of the process.
Later add turmeric powder and give it a good mix. Adding turmeric to marinade makes paneer tikka look yellowish and beautiful.
Once marinade is ready, add paneer pieces and vegetable petals to the marinade.
Add paneer and veggies in batches. Don't add all at once as it will be difficult to mix and apply marinade.
Mix everything and apply marinade well to paneer and vegetables. Then tuck them in a skewer.
- I have used steel metal skewers to prepare paneer tikka. You can use wooden skewers too. However, I prefer to use metal skewers because of the good grip.
- Metal skewers become hot a bit so carefully handle them and try to use long skewers (Steel skewers with wooden handle would be even better).
Keep the skewers ready with paneer and veggies tucked in and keep those aside.
Prepare in batches.
Now to prepare mint chutney, add curd to a bowl. Whisk well until curd is smooth. Mix some water if curd looks very thick.
Now add below ingredients to grinder and grind until it's smooth.
- Coriander
- Mint
- Green chilli
- Ginger
- Chaat masala
- Anardana
- Cumin powder
- Black salt
- Regular salt
- Cooking oil
- Ice cubes
Now add mint and coriander puree to the curd we whisked earlier.
Mix well and keep it in fridge until we serve paneer tikka. This Mint chutney is perfect and enhances taste of Paneer Tikka.
And now is the time to prepare cabbage salad. Take shredded cabbage to a bowl.
Add below ingredients to the shredded cabbage.
- Green chilli
- Chaat masala
- Black pepper powder
- Black salt
- Regular salt
- Lemon juice
Mix lightly using forks and keep it in fridge as we need to serve this cabbage salad later with Paneer Tikka.
Now turn on the flame and place paneer and veggies tucked skewers on a phulka maker. Keep rotating the skewers and roast them from all side.
Keep adjust flame from low to medium and carefully roast them without burning too much.
Lastly, when paneer tikkas are done, apply some ghee which gives a very nice taste to the paneer tikka.
Now take out Paneer tikka to serving plate and accompany it with cabbage salad and mint chutney that we prepared.
Prepare remaining paneer tikka in similar way.Paneer Tikka prepared cooked at home tastes amazing and the combination used to serve makes it a complete recipe.