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    Home » Appetizers/Snacks

    Published: Feb 18, 2010 · Modified: Jan 3, 2021 by usha

    Paneer Tikka Kebab

    Last month, I participated in an online recipe contest in one of the communities of a social networking site.  The theme for the contest was to prepare Indian food with three colors of the India flag.  We had an option of using food colors.  I chose to use natural ingredients and my entry was Paneer Tikka Kebab.  My entry came in second place. We were allowed to send only one picture and the picture below is what I sent.  This is a collage of all the step by step preparation pictures of the kebabs.  Here is what I sent.

    Collage of paneer tikka kebab with prep shoots.

    Paneer Tikka Kebab
    I had a very difficult time deciding the recipe for this contest. When I saw the contest rules, I was flooded with ideas to cook with this tri-color, saffron white and green. I normally avoid using food colors in my preparation and did not want to do it this time either. I wanted to use ingredients that go with the color theme. I finally narrowed down the list to Paneer Tikka Kebabs. This is a quick and an easy recipe to prepare, and a wonderful entry for this month's contest. More over, appetizers are my favorite course of the meal and I love grilled food. I used red bell peppers, paneer and green bell peppers for the tikka kebabs.

    Origin:
    I am not 100% sure about the origin of this recipe but I am assuming it is from Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow Cuisine is known for its Biryanis and Kebabs. Paneer is used extensively in North Indian dishes, hence I am assuming Paneer Tikka Kebab is part of Lucknow Cuisine and is from Uttar Pradesh.

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    Ingredients:

    125 gms Paneer cubes (Homemade paneer)
    ½ medium size Green Bell Pepper diced
    ½ medium size Red Bell Pepper diced
    1 small Onion diced
    ½ cups Yogurt (toady I used homemade)
    1 teaspoon Chili Powder (adjust to taste)
    1 teaspoon Salt (adjust to taste)
    ½ teaspoon Garam Masala (store bought)
    1 teaspoon Coriander Powder
    ½ teaspoon Cumin Powder
    ½ Lime or approx. 1 – 1 ½ tablespoon Lime Juice
    4 Bamboo Skewers soaked in water
    Pam to spray the kebabs

    Preparation:

    1. Cut the paneer to desired cubes. I used homemade paneer but can use store-bought paneer.
    2. Dice bell peppers and onions.
    3. Mix all the ingredients together, except Pam spray and of course skewers 🙂 . I did not use turmeric in this recipe as I wanted to retain the white color of the paneer. However, the red chili powder had some other plans for the paneer.. 🙁 I think I should have used black pepper instead.

    4. Marinate for at least 30 minutes. I marinated it for 1 hour.
    5. Meantime, soak bamboo skewers in water. This prevents the skewer from burning when grilling the kebabs. Can use metallic skewers too.
    6. Preheat the broiler or the grill.
    7. Skewer Paneer and vegetables with 1 bell pepper piece, 1 paneer or onion piece and 1 green bell pepper piece. I repeated the same order again and again until all the pieces were skewered on to the skewers. I followed that order, the tri-colors of our Indian flag. Spray the skewers with Pam or brush the kebabs with oil.

    8. Grill them for 7-8 minutes and turn them around, spray little bit of Pam and grill for another 5 minutes. If the kebabs are not cooked, turned them around again and cook for another 5 minutes. I grilled them for 15 minutes. Oven temperatures vary from oven to oven. Grill them until the vegetables are cooked and the paneer turns light orange shade or until done.

    9. For presentation, I skewered 1 red bell pepper, 1 paneer and 1 green bell pepper to an hors d'oeuvre pick. Can use a tooth pick as well. This way, it is easy to serve. I garnished the platter with carrots, onion and celery, to go with the Indian flag theme.
    Paneer Tikka kebab.

    I am sending these colorful kebabs to AsanKhana's Lets Play with Colors to celebrate Holi.

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    1. anjali sawant says

      October 27, 2012 at 4:07 am

      ausome.

      Reply
    2. notyet100 says

      March 16, 2010 at 10:24 am

      thanks for sendin this over...this looks perfect fro the evnt:-)

      Reply
    3. Rinku says

      February 20, 2010 at 12:11 pm

      Thank you so much for stopping by. This looks lovely!

      Reply
    4. Sayantani says

      February 19, 2010 at 12:26 pm

      I also make a lot of paneer and chicken tikkas. Congrats on the winning that surely looks gorgeous.

      I just left a comment in your blog and I see yours in my mine. Thank you!

      Reply
    5. Saritha says

      February 19, 2010 at 5:08 am

      They look wonderful,i have one in my blog as well.

      Reply
    6. notyet100 says

      February 18, 2010 at 10:38 pm

      looks so tempting...lovely colour too....

      Reply
    7. srikitchen says

      February 18, 2010 at 8:42 pm

      that looks yum n awesome!

      for ur doubt about my event, its not necessary to send as a combo. you can send parathas or gravies or both. the choice is entirely yours!

      Thanks sri! and thanks for getting back to me about the event!

      Reply

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