Paneer Roll

The story first!

Last week I had bought flour tortillas thinking that they would make my loner's luncheon easy. Some quick wraps with leftover veggies, I had imagined. But I survived the week without needing to open the tortilla pack. And then on Friday when I bought Paneer to make matar paneer for a lavish Saturday lunch. Linus insisted we will have paneer rolls.

So, we will have paneer rolls, I chimed in. And then sat down to google. After reading a few recipes I settled to Tarla Dalal's recipe (available only to members of her site) and with a few variation thrown in, there it was a great paneer roll.

So here is how I did it:

Ingredients:

For the marinade:
1/4 cup of well beaten curd
1 teaspoon chilli powder (measurement alterable to taste)
¼ teaspoon turmeric powder (haldi)
¼ teaspoon Bengal gram flour (besan)
½ teaspoon chaat masala
½ teaspoon kasuri methi (dried fenugreek leaves)
½ teaspoon garam masala
salt to taste

1 cup Paneer cut into cubes
1/2 cup tomatoes (deseeded) cut into small cubes
1/2 cup capsicum diced
1 tsp oil
A little butter
1 Onion cut vertically
1/2 lemon
Tomato Sauce/Ketchup

For the wrap
4 flour tortillas

Tinkering in the kitchen:

• Mix the marinade items in a bowl and then toss in paneer and tomatoes . Leave it for 10 minutes.
• Heat oil in a non stick pan, saute capsicum for 2-3 minutes.
• Now add the paneer mixture and saute in high flame for 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionaly.
• The filling is ready now.
• Take the tortilla and place it in a heated tawa with a little butter, flip sides add a little butter again. Take it off the tawa when it is nicely browned.
• Put the filling on the centre as shown in the picture, garnish with onion , squeeze a little lemon , a bit of tomato ketchup and then wrap it tightly. You can use tissue paper to hold it secure also.
• And then yum eat it or make another one!

As soon as we rolled the tortilla our temptation knew no bounds and we immediately had the first one. Hence the photo is the pre-rolled one!

My variation from the original recipe was using Tortillas instead of chapati. Not adding, ginger paste and garlic paste to the marinade mixture. And majorly my input was garnishing the roll with onion, lemon and ketchup.

Credits : Tarla Dalal for Inspiration
Linus for suggestion