How to make Paneer or Cottage Cheese at home / Homemade Paneer Recipe
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 250gms paneer
 
Ingredients
  • Ingredients:
  • Milk – 6 cups
  • Lemon Juice – 2 tsp or yogurt - 1 tbsp or vinegar- 2 tsp
  • Ice cubes – 6
Instructions
  1. Mix lemon juice in half a cup of warm water and keep aside.
  2. Add 5 cups milk to a large pan over medium high heat. Constantly stir the milk at regular intervals to make sure the milk does not stick to the bottom.
  3. When it is boiling nicely, add the lemon juice/water mixture to the boiling milk. The milk will curdle in about a minute and most of the milk protein coagulates into lumps leaving very thin, slight cloudy water behind. When the water is clear, stop curdling by adding ice.
  4. Drain out the liquid using a muslin cloth or any clean thin cloth. Guess what you have in the cloth? Its cottage cheese! Squeeze out the excess water and hang the cloth with paneer for about 30-40minutes.
  5. Now rub the cloth that contains the paneer with another cloth. This removes the remaining water and helps us form the dough. Now remove the paneer from the cloth, knead it well.
  6. Cut them into desired shapes and store in freezer. Use it when you need it.
Recipe by Relish The Bite at https://www.relishthebite.com/how-to-make-paneer-or-cottage-cheese-at-home-homemade-paneer-recipe/