The Daily Tiffin: Recipe Friday: Panner Panini

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Now on to the recipe. This time Sheela of Indian Spice Trail sends us a wonderful lunchbox idea. She makes a very flavorful sandwich with Paneer. Paneer is a common Indian cheese and can be compared to ricotta or cottage cheese and is very easy to prepare at home.

Sheela uses store bought Paneer for her sandwiches but recommends using homemade.

Photo courtesy of Sheela - Indian Spice Trail

Ingredients:

1 cup crumbled paneer
1/2 red onion chopped
1 green chilli minced
1 tsp ginger minced
1 tomato chopped
1 green pepper copped
1 tsp cumin seeds
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper pwd
2 tbsps cilantro leaves
1 tbsp oil

Method:

Heat oil add cumin seeds, once they brown add onion, green chilli, and ginger. Saute till light golden add tomato and green pepper, stir for a few minutes. Add paneer, salt, pepper and cilantro leaves. Stir till well combined.

This can be spread on any type of bread you like. Sheela uses multi-grain white sandwich bread, however she recommends sourdough.

If you cannot find paneer I think a good substitute would be ricotta cheese. If you are worried about using chilies in your kids lunchbox then simply leave it out.

Thank you Sheela for this wonderful idea.

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