Paneer Sandwich Pakoda/Cottage Cheese Pakoda

Ingredients

• 250 gms of Paneer/Cottage Cheese
• 1 cup of Besan/Chickpea Flour
• 6 Bread Slices
• 1 Teaspoon of Chilli Powder
• ½ Teaspoon of Turmeric Powder
• 1 Tablespoon Yogurt
• Oil for Frying
• Salt, to taste

To Spread
• Coriander/Green Chutney
• Garlic/Red Chutney

Method

1. Cut paneer into big slices to fit inbetween the bread slices. Marinate Paneer with ½ teaspoon chilli powder, turmeric, salt and yogurt.
2. Shallow fry paneer for 2 minutes on both the sides on a griddle.
3. Take a bowl add besan flour, salt, remaining chilli powder and water, mix it like a batter.
4. Cut the crust from the bread slices.
5. Take 2 bread slices to make one sandwich pakoda.
6. Take Red chutney and Green chutney. Spread red chutney in one slice and green chutney on the other bread slice.
7. Keep the shallow fried paneer/cottage chees in between the 2 bread slices.
8. On the other side, heat oil in pan, to deep fry the pakodas.
9. Dip the bread sandwich in the chickpea batter, deep fry them.
10. Fry the pakodas on both the sides, drain the pakodas from oil.
11. Cut them diagonally and serve with tamarind sauce or green chutney.

Tips and variations:
1. You can use plain paneer instead of shallow fried one. I prefer to marinate and shallow fry to give extra taste to the paneer/cottage cheese.