Chilli Paneer Dry | Honey Sriracha Tossed Paneer

one hand holding the bowl and the other hand digging into the bowl filled with chilli paneer with a fork

Chilli Paneer Dry | Honey Sriracha Tossed Paneer

Chilli Paneer recipe is a quick, easy, sweet, and spicy Indo-Chinese dry snack in which paneer cubes are tossed in a creamy mustard honey sriracha sauce. You can make this in just 15 minutes!

Course Appetizer, Side Dish, Snack

Cuisine Asian, Indian, Indo Chinese

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 10

Servings people

Calories 293.51kcal

Author Priya Lakshminarayan

Equipment

Ingredients

To prep the paneer

250 gms paneer
2 tablespoon corn starch

To prepare the creamy sriracha mustard sauce

1 tablespoon Coconut Aminos
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon Maille Dijon Originale Mustard
½ tablespoon honey
1-2 tablespoon sriracha sauce

To prepare the stir-fry

2 tablespoon sesame oil
8-10 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
2-3 tablespoon cilantro chopped

Instructions

To prep the paneer

Cut paneer into small cubes.
Transfer to a bowl and add corn starch. Toss and coat the paneer cubes with corn starch. Set it aside for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, chop the garlic and cilantro.

To prepare the creamy sriracha mustard sauce

In a small bowl, add Coconut Aminos, and rice vinegar.
Then add Maille Dijon Originale Mustard to the bowl.
Next, add the honey followed by sriracha sauce.
Whisk it all together and keep it aside.

To prepare the stir-fry

Heat sesame oil in a pan and fry garlic and sesame seeds.
Then add the paneer cubes and fry till they turn crisp. Keep turning them on all sides to cook evenly and do not crowd the pan.
Lastly, pour the prepared sauce and coat the paneer. Take it off the flame once its coated

Notes

In case you don't have corn starch, you can substitute it with arrowroot powder, rice flour, or potato starch. To give it more flavor, mix in some pepper, and paprika along with the flour.

Feel free to add some dried or fresh herbs like basil to the creamy honey sriracha sauce for more flavor. You can either deep-fry the paneer cubes or air-fry them instead of sautéing them.

Add some bell peppers, celery, and onions/shallots to this to make the Chilli Paneer recipe crunchier and filling. It also helps to increase the quantity.

Feel free to experiment with other flavors of Maille mustard in this Chilli Paneer recipe. If sesame oil is unavailable to you, you can use any other vegetable oil. Use naturally fermented soy sauce like Coconut Aminos or Tamari.

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