How to make Paneer Quesadillas

How to make Paneer Quesadillas

How to make Paneer Quesadillas? It is an easy recipe. I have limited culinary experience and, if you can call it another country, then Chindian (Indian Chinese) food. I rustle up some mocktails here and a few desserts there that are not Indian sweets or mithai. After all these years of cooking, you might think I am done with learning. No, not at all. Learning is a never-ending process. Whatever I cooked for the kids or the husband used to be relished and polished off. My son is married to a Mexican and Karina, my daughter-in-law is from Guadalajara, Mexico but looks Indian. Everybody accepted her into the family fold with open arms. I am glad that she speaks English or else I would have been struggling with Buenos Dias or Hola and Adios!!

Tortillas

When I am visiting them or when Karina is here, I try my hand at Mexican cuisine. My son, Pratik, is a great cook, and he helps me out most of the time. In India, we kept looking for tortilla flour. Scoured the net for how to procure it here or make it at home. But then they make tortillas with special corn flour called masa harina. Masa harina is a corn flour that is treated with calcium hydroxide or “lime”. This makes it more nutritious by releasing the niacin in the corn, and easier to digest. We tried the ready-made tortillas too available in the supermarkets, but they were not good.

I then made tortillas with basic flour and made enchiladas. The fillings I made with chicken, shrimp or cottage cheese (paneer) which she liked. I became an expert at pancakes, too. My son got a ready mix for pancakes at the supermarket, but Karina preferred the ones that I made ……well Gracias!

How to make Paneer Quesadillas

Thus started my Mexicano cuisine connection! Though I must again say that it can be more Mexindian….. Jajajajaja (instead of hahaha ). The other day I had quesadillas at a restaurant and felt that I could hone them! (Self-praise is ok when nobody else does it, isn’t it?). So, I tried making paneer Quesadillas at home and they turned out perfect. Just toss the paneer in olive oil and add the light spices and yoghurt, fill in the tortillas. Serve with salsa or any dip.

How to make Paneer Quesadillas

Ingredients:

For the dough

1 cup all-purpose flour

½ cup whey (the residue while making paneer or cottage cheese)

2 tbsp yoghurt

Pinch of salt, sugar

Method:

Make the dough with all the ingredients and cover with a damp cloth. Keep aside for an hour. Roll out tortillas and roast them on a griddle. Set aside.

For the filling

100 gm paneer cubed (Cottage cheese)

4 tomatoes blanched and pureed

1 onion chopped fine

A few flakes of garlic

Pinch of oregano, thyme

4 fresh basil leaves

2 jalapenos

½ tsp. chilli powder

Salt to taste

1 tbsp. cream

1 tsp. Olive oil

Little chopped cilantro

Method:

On a non-stick pan, drizzle a little olive oil and toss the paneer cubes till nice and done. Remove from fire and keep aside.

Take a pan and add a few drops of olive oil just to smear the pan. Once hot, add the chopped onion, garlic and jalapenos. Sauté till pink, now add the blanched, peeled and pureed tomatoes.

Cook the tomatoes till the oil floats on top. Add the tossed Paneer cubes and salt, chilli powder, thyme and oregano. Next, add 1 tbsp cream and remove from fire. Add the cilantro.

You can make the filling of your choice; minced meat, chicken, bacon or shrimp!

Spray some olive oil on a non-stick griddle. Fill the tortillas with the paneer filling. Lightly roast and flip gently. Serve hot with a white sauce, salsa or any dip of your choice.

Are these Paneer Quesadillas to your liking? You can check out the recipes for tomato and avocado salsa.

You can similarly make Butter Chicken. 

Recipe for Butter Chicken

 Paneer Butter Masala recipe

Baked Paneer Biryani or Baked Cottage Cheese Rice

Crispy Paneer Fries

 Shahi Paneer Pudding

 Shahi Kunafa

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Course Appetiser, Main Dish

Cuisine Mexican

Ingredients

  

• For the Dough
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup whey the residue while making paneer or cottage cheese
• 2 tbsp yoghurt
• Pinch of salt and sugar
• For the filling
• 100 gms paneer or cottage cheese cubed
• 4 tomatoes blanched and pureed
• 1 onion chopped fine
• Few flakes garlic
• Pinch of oregano thyme
• 4 fresh basil leaves
• 2 no jalapenos
• 1/2 tsp Chilli powder
• salt to taste
• 1 tbsp. cream
• 1 tsp. Olive oil
• Sprig Chopped Cilantro

Instructions

 

• Method:
• Make the dough with all the ingredients and cover with a damp cloth. Keep aside for an hour. Roll out tortillas and roast them on a griddle. Keep aside.
• Method:
• On a non-stick pan drizzle a little olive oil and toss the paneer cubes till nice and done. Remove from fire and keep aside.
• Take a pan and add a few drops of olive oil just to smear the pan. Once hot add the chopped onion, garlic and jalapenos. Sauté till pink, now add the blanched, peeled and pureed tomatoes. Cook the tomatoes till the oil floats on top. Add the tossed Paneer cubes and salt, chilli powder, thyme and oregano. Add 1tbsp cream and remove from fire. Add the cilantro. You can make the filling of your choice; minced meat, chicken, bacon or shrimp!
• Spray some olive oil on a non-stick griddle. Fill the tortillas with the paneer filling. Lightly roast and flip gently. Serve hot with a white sauce, salsa or any dip of your choice.
• Are these Paneer Quesadillas to your liking? You can check out the recipes for tomato and avocado salsa.

Notes

If you have no Tortilla flour then use regular flour.

You can make Quesadillas with filling of your choice.