How to make Paneer at home?

Making Paneer at home is very easy.

Ingredients-

3 Littre of High Fat Milk.
50-60 ml of Lemon juice, preferably bottled.
Clean white cotton cloth.

Method-

Put milk in deep pan and bring to boil.
Reduce heat to medium.
Add spoon by spoon of lemon juice.
Keep stirring inbetween so that milk does not boil out of pan.
When paneer and water separates, stop heating and take off heat.
Now take one cotton cloth and strain of liquid.
Sqeeze water through cloth by twisting cloth. Be careful as it will be very hot.
Put 2kgs of weight on top of this to set paneer.
Keep aside for 30min to 1hr.
Take cloth off and Paneer is ready.


Soon i will put recipe for Palak Paneer Curry. Yummy. Enjoy cooking Indian :).


Here is demonstration with pictures

1. Boiling milk with lemon juice until it separated as below.

2. Poured it in to cotton cloth.

3. After pouring.

4 Now just rotated cloth to take water out. After this put some 2kgs weight on it. Can be some jar or anything.

5. Here is Paneer ready. After 1hr taken out of cloth. All above process has to be done righjt away. DO not let separated milk cool and then to put in cloth. Be careful, but has to be done when all is hot to get hard paneer.