Today’s recipe is ‘Paneer Chilla’. This recipe is a very healthy and nutritious recipe of lentil pancake which is stuffed with cottage cheese. It is basically moong dal chilla which is stuffed with spiced paneer/cottage cheese. I have already shared moong dal chilla recipe on the blog. Moong dal chilla recipe is available here.
Paneer chilla can be enjoyed as a breakfast recipe or mid meal/tea-time snack. It is a quick recipe. You can serve it with green chutney or ketchup. As month of Ramadan is going on, you cook this healthy and nutritious chilla for iftar.
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Yield: 10
Duration: 45 mins
Ingredients for Paneer Chilla
| For filling | |
| Paneer/cottage cheese | 100 gms |
| Garam masala / all spice powder | 1/2 tsp |
| Roasted cumin powder / jeera powder | 1/2 tsp |
| Chaat masala | 1/2 tsp |
| Black salt | 1/4 tsp or as per taste |
| Mint leaves | 9-10 leaves |
| For chilla | |
| Saboot Moong dal / Green gram lentil flour | 2 cups |
| Salt | 1 tsp or as per taste |
| Bhuna jeera / Roasted cumin powder | 1 tsp |
| Garam Masala / All spice powder | 1/2 tsp or as per taste |
| Green chilli | 4-5 |
| Garlic cloves | 10-11 |
| Ginger | 1" |
| Oil | for shallow frying |
| Water | for preparing batter |
Method for Paneer Chilla
For filling :
- Grate fresh paneer/cottage cheese in a mixing bowl.
- Add all the filling ingredients listed above. Mix well.
For chilla :
- Prepare flour of moong dal/green gram lentil, if you have flour mill at home.
- Now prepare a batter for chilla/pancakes. Batter should be of pouring consistency. Keep it aside for 10-15 mins.
- In the batter add cumin seeds powder, all spice powder and salt. Mix well.
- Prepare a coarse paste of green chillies, ginger and garlic.
- Add paste in the batter and mix well.
- Heat a non-stick pan. Spread batter in the pan in round shape with the help of spoon back.
- Drizzle oil on the edges of chilla/pancake. Cook chilla on medium heat.
- Flip the chilla and cook from both the sides by applying oil.
- Spread 1-2 tsp cottage cheese on the chilla. Fold it in half.
- Cook till chillas are golden brown and cooked from both the sides.
- Repeat above steps for all the chillas.
- Healthy and nutritious chillas are ready to serve. Serve paneer chillas with ketchup or any chutney of your choice.
