Paneer salad

Paneer salad is a flavorful vegetarian salad from India. This vibrant salad is filling enough to be served as a meal too. Loaded with sauteed paneer, crunchy vegetables, nuts, and a green chutney dressing bursting with flavors, this salad will become your favorite.

Course Salad

Cuisine Indian

Diet Gluten Free, Vegetarian

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Total Time 20

Servings

Calories 337kcal

Author Vandana Chauhan

Equipment

Large mixing bowl

Ingredients

Ingredients for sauteeing paneer

400 grams paneer cut into bite size cubes
Salt to taste
⅛ teaspoon Ground black pepper adjust to taste
1 teaspoon any neutral flavored cooking oil of choice

Ingredients for tomato mint chutney dressing

1 medium-sized tomato roughly chopped
A handful of fresh cilantro leaves roughly chopped
7-8 mint leaves roughly chopped
1-2 green chilies roughly chopped
1 garlic clove roughly chopped
1.5 tablespoons lime juice adjust to taste
½ tablespoon honey
½ teaspoon roasted cumin powder
¼ teaspoon black salt
Regular table salt to taste

Other ingredients required

1 red onion thinly sliced
½ cup cherry tomatoes cut into half
1 medium-sized cucumber chopped (around 1 cup)
1 medium-sized carrot shredded (around ½ cup)
1 cup roughly chopped lettuce
½ cup pomegranate arils
2 tablespoons roasted peanuts
1 tablespoon roasted flax seeds
1 tablespoon roasted white sesame seeds

Instructions

Heat a large pan or cooking pot with a flat base on the stovetop. Brush it with some cooking oil.
Spread paneer cubes on the pan, in a single layer. Leave them on the pan for a few minutes. Once the paneer cubes start getting brown patches on one side, gently flip them over. Cook the other side too for another 3-4 minutes or until they too get brown patches. Switch off the stove and keep the sauteed paneer cubes aside.
Put all the ingredients for dressing in a chutney or grinding jar and make a paste. Check and adjust the seasoning.
Take a large bowl and put sauteed paneer cubes into it. Add all the remaining salad ingredients and pour the dressing on top.
Gently toss. Check and adjust the seasoning.

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Notes

Don't overcook paneer otherwise, it will turn chewy.
Try using fresh paneer to make salad. However, if you could not find it, use frozen paneer. Just soak it in hot water for around 20 minutes and then strain before sauteeing.
While sauteeing toss the cubes gently so that they don't break.
If you want to preserve this salad for more than a day, add a few tablespoons of olive oil to the dressing.
Add table salt carefully and only if required because we have added black salt too.
If you serve this paneer salad as a side dish, it will serve around 5 people. However, if you want to enjoy it as a meal it will be enough for 2-3 people only.
More recipe-related tips and tricks are shared in the post above, please follow them to make this recipe.

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