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Paneer tikka sandwich
Paneer tikka sandwich – This Paneer tikka sandwich is a very simple recipe. You don’t really need to make paneer tikka separately, there’s not much preparation involved. We’ll use a simple sandwich bread, and make a simple filling and everything will be cooked in a pan itself, and this recipe is ready instantly.
Usally when we go to coffee shops and the paneer tikka sandwich that we get there, this is very similar to that, or even more delicious than that!
Paneer tikka sandwich – This is recipe is perfect for your kids lunch boxes or for evening snacks. it is ready quickly and turns out really delicious. it’s very easy to grill it as well. You don’t need any griller-toaster. you can grill it on a skillet itself.
Let’s see how to make easy, smoky flavoured paneer tikka sandwich.
How to make Paneer tikka sandwich
- Into a bowl, add 1 tbsp mustard oil, now to this add 1 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder, mix the oil and chilli very well. By doing so the colour in the marination comes very nice.
- Paneer tikka sandwich – Now, to that add 1 tsp coriander powder, 1/4th tsp turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp garam masala, 1/2 tsp cumin powder, 1/2 tsp black salt, 1 pinch roasted kasuri methi powder, 1 pinch cardamom powder, this is optional.
- 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste, 1 tbsp lemon juice, 2 tbsp thick curd, and salt to taste.
- Mix everything well, basically we have made a tandoori marinade here.
- This is what will give it a tandoori flavour.
- You can see that I’ve nicely mixed everything together.
- I’m doing an optional step of taking a live coal, adding ghee on top and covering the bowl.
- Paneer tikka sandwich – Adding ghee will do the major work of adding the tandoori flavour to this marinade.
- So try it at home, if you don’t have coals, you can burn a cinnamon stick and add as well.
- You can skip it if you want, but if you do it, you will really enjoy it.
- Remove the lid after covering it for 2-3 minutes.
- Carefully remove the coal and put it under running water.
- You can see that our tandoori marinade is ready.
- This tandoori marinade that we made will give it that tandoori or tikka flavour.
- A simple process has to be done of sauteing paneer, onions and capsicum with the marinade in a pan, and our filling will be ready and we will make the sandwich.
- Just you have to make this marinade, which takes about 5 minutes.
- The rest of the filling will be ready and within 10 – 15 minutes, your job will be done.
- Here, you can see that I’ve diced 250 grams of paneer, I’ve also diced one large onion too, and I’ve diced 2 medium capsicum like this as well.
- Now, heat a wok on high flame.
- Now, to this add 1 tbsp butter and 1 tsp oil.
- We’ve added oil to prevent the butter from burning.
- Once oil and butter are hot, then add chopped onion to it, just stir it and cook it for 1- 2 minutes, Once it’s slightly translucent, then add diced capsicum to it.
- Cook the capsicum on high flame for 1 minute.
- Then add paneer to it.
- Add paneer and lightly stir it.
- After that add the tandoori marinade that we had made.
- And lightly mix it!
- Paneer tikka sandwich – There’s no need to worry too much, even if the paneer breaks it’s going to go in the sandwich itself.
- The texture of paneer is very soft, so don’t worry even if the paneer breaks apart.
- Cook on high flame for 2-3 minutes.
- You can see that our filling is ready.
- Here, I’m tasting to adjust the salt if needed because we won’t be able to do it, Once sandwich is made.
- Add salt to taste.
- Stir it nicely and our paneer tikka filling is ready.
- Transfer it to a bowl and bring it to room temperature by cooling it down.
- Once this filling cools down, we have to mix mayonnaise to it.
- Before mixing it, I’m transferring half quantity into a bowl.
- Prepare filling as per the number of sandwiches that you would like to make at a time.
- Here, I’m adding 2-3 tbsp of mayonnaise.
- And some freshly chopped coriander leaves and I’m mixing it well.
- Adding mayonnaise gives it a very creamy texture.
- If you don’t want to add mayonnaise, it’s completely optional, you can directly add this filling to make this sandwich.
- Paneer tikka sandwich – Our filling for paneer tikka sandwich is perfectly ready.
- Now, take 2 sandwich bread slices, then smear soft butter on them.
- Nicely butter both the bread slices.
- Once buttered, spread 2-3 spoons of this paneer tikka filling on the sandwich evenly.
- Apply it evenly, you can see how nicely I’ve spread it here.
- Here, I’m placing a cheese slice on top.
- Cheese slice is completely optional, but it tastes amazing if you add it.
- After adding cheese slices, place the other sandwich bread on top, lightly press it so sandwich comes together.
- Our sandwich is ready!
- Now we have to grill it.
- I’ve taken a grill pan here, to grill the sandwich.
- if there’s no grill pan, you can use a regular skillet too.
- Paneer tikka sandwich – No matter which pan you are using, heat it up very well before grilling or toasting the sandwich.
- Once your pan is nice and hot, apply some butter to it.
- After applying butter, place the sandwich.
- Place a plate on top and then apply gentle pressure, to get those grill marks.
- Now, cook this sandwich on medium low flame patiently for 2-3 minutes until it turns crisp on one side.
- After 2-3 minutes, let’s remove the plate and check.
- You can see that the sandwich is nicely grilled.
- Now apply some more butter on the raw side of the sandwich.
- So that we can cook the sandwich nicely on the other side too.
- After applying butter on the top, flip it nicely and you can see it has got such nice grill marks on it.
- Again, place the plate on top, and then apply some pressure on top.
- Cook the sandwich for 2-3 minutes or until the sandwich becomes crisp.
- It’s been 2-3 minutes, let’s check it.
- You can see that our sandwich is grilled perfectly from both the sides.
- Take it out and transfer it to a chopping board.
- Now, you can cut it into triangles or squares as per your choice.
- You can see that our paneer tikka sandwich is ready.
How to serve paneer tikka sandwich
Paneer tikka sandwich – This Paneer tikka sandwich is very delicious and did you see how easy it is to make. You can choose whether you want to make it with mayo or cheese or without as per your wish.
You can use white bread, brown bread or multigrain bread, whichever you like. If you want to spread green chutney inside the sandwich, you can do that too, or serve it on side like i did.
Paneer tikka sandwich – Serve some chips and ketchup with it for ultimate fun, and definitely try this sandwich recipe and let me know how do you like this!
