Instant Paneer Bhurji

Today was one of those days when I was at the behest of Murphy's law! Nothing seemed to work as planned.Came home tired..and no this wasn't the first . I was struggling this whole week.

Result- Order food everyday! But today, while rushing to catch the last bus home, I resolved to cook.

And then I remembered my mommy's quick paneer bhurji, one of my favorite lunchtime recipes as a kid





Here goes the recipe:

Preparation Time: Practically NIL                          
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
Serves :2 


Ingredients: 

Onion: 1 Medium Chopped fine
Tomato:1 Medium Chopped fine
Cottage Cheese cubes: 200 gms
Coriander leaves: to garnish
Salt: to taste
Gingergarlic paste(optional): 1 teaspoon
Green Chilli-Chopped fine -1 
Oil: 1tbsp

Cooking Method

Heat oil in pan, add cumin seeds(jeera). When they splutter, add ginger garlic paste and chopped chilli. Saute for a bit and add onions. When onions are cooked , add tomatoes. Add turmeric, red chilli powder and salt to taste and stir. Cook for a few minutes till the tomatoes start leaving oil.

In the meanwhile, heat paneer cubes in the microwave for 3 minutes on HIGH. Once done,crumble them using your hands.

Add paneer to the cooked onions and tomato and stir in till the paneer gets fully coated.

Stir for 2 minutes and voila its done!

Garnish with coriander leaves and lemon(optional)

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Tastes good with : Chapatis, Small plain parathas

Quick Health tips: 

Replace paneer with tofu

Quick Taste tips: 

You could add peas (frozen) after tomatoes and cook till they become soft. You could also make paneer at home.Refer Cooking Easy for the recipe.

You can also stir fry some capsicum and kasuri methi(dried fenugreek leaves) for added flavours.