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PANEER CHILA/ PANEER LENTIL PANCAKE

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Paneer protein chila

Welcome to my new series. 30

Episode 1

30g protein

30 Minutes

Vegetarian version

Recipes that will take you under 30 minutes to make and contains over 30g of protein vegetarian version

This is super simple paneer lentil pancake.

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Ingredients

  • To blend
  • Moong dal – 1 cup
  • Green chillies – 2-3
  • Ginger – 1 Inch
  • To add
  • Paneer – 200gm, Grated
  • Red chilli flakes – 1.5 tsp
  • Onion – 1/4 cup, chopped finely.
  • Carrot – 1/4 cup, grated
  • Coriander leaves – 1/4 cup, grated
  • Red chilli powder – 1.5 tsp
  • Salt – 2 tsp or change for your salt level.
  • For pancake
  • Coconut or avocado oil – 1 tbsp .

Directions

  1. Soak green moong dal for 10 minutes in boiling hot water or for 2-3 hours if you have the time.
  2. Meanwhile Finish grating the vegetables.
  3. Now remove the excess water from moong dal and grind it to smooth paste with green chillies and Ginger.
  4. Mix all ingredients well and form a smooth mixture. It does not need to be in liquid consistency.
  5. Take a pan. Pour a spoon of pancake mixture on a pan, drizzle some oil on it.
  6. Once it is cooked, turn it and cook from other side till it is golden brown from both the sides.
  7. Serve it with Chilli oil (or) Greek yogurt (for added protein) and Pickle.

Spicy Kerala Coconut Chicken

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Chicken dry curry with coconut and spices. Simple but full of flavour. 

If you want to have some protein based Indian dinner, this is one recipe which is handy. 

Other favorite chicken recipes: Kerala chicken fry, Madras Chicken curry.

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Ingredients

  • Oil – 1 tbsp
  • Spices – cardamom, cinnamon, clove, bay leaf  – each two
  • Whole Red chillies – 2, broken
  • Garlic – 8, finely chopped
  • Ginger – 1 inch,finely chopped 
  • Green chilli – 2, slit
  • Mint – 1 tbsp, finely chopped
  • Red Onion – 2, sliced
  • Tomato – 1, chopped 
  • Salt – 2 tsp 
  • Turmeric powder – 1 tsp 
  • Red chilli powder – 1 tsp 
  • Coriander powder – 1 tsp
  • Chicken – 500 gms
  • Water – 1/2 cup
  • Pepper powder – 1.5 tsp
  • Grated fresh Coconut – 2 tbsp
  • Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp, finely chopped

Directions

  1. Wash and cut the chicken into medium sized pieces.
  2. Add spices , red chillies, onion, garlic, ginger, green chilli, curry leaves, mint together and salt. Sauté until translucent. Then add chilli powder, turmeric powder and coriander powder. Sauté well. 
  3. Add the chicken pieces and mix well. 
  4. Add water and mix well.
  5. CLose the pan after that for another 10 minutes.
  6. Add pepper powder and coconut to the top of the chicken.
  7. Close it for another 5 minutes and open! Oh lala! Ready!
  8. Squeeze lemon juice and coriander leaves to garnish.
  9. Notes :
  10. 1. Add curry leaves if you have some. I was giving it to my nephew who doesn’t like curry leaves.

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