Homemade Paneer (Cottage cheese)

Name: Homemade Paneer (Cottage cheese)
Total time: 14400 s
Yield: as desired
Cuisine: Pakistani
Ingredients: 3 liter Fresh Milk; 2 tbspn Vinegar; Cloth to drain the water

Sumreen Farooq @Sf_kitchen2012

Bahawalpur

AssalamOAlaikum 🌹
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Step by step instructions on how to make Paneer (Cottage Cheese) at home!
Making paneer at home is easier than you think! Cottage cheese made by curdling the milk.
You can either curdle the milk with vinegar or lemon juice. You can also use yogurt.
Once the milk is curdled, you collect the cheese in a muslin cloth or (any neat cloth) and then let it set until it’s firm.
And that’s about it! Seriously, it’s that easy to make paneer at home.
Paneer is used in a number of curries in India, the popular ones being palak paneer, kadai paneer, matar paneer.
It tastes so much better than store bought.

Sumreen Farooq @Sf_kitchen2012

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Ingredients

4 hours

as desired

3 literFresh Milk
2 tbspnVinegar
Cloth to drain the water

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Steps

4 hours

1

Add milk to a heavy bottom pan on medium heat.
2

Let the milk come to a boil, stir often so that it doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan.
3

Once the milk has come to a boil, turn off the heat and start adding vinegar (or lemon juice), little at a time.
4

At one point, the milk will curdle and you will see the whey separate. At that point, stop adding the curdling agent and wait for 5 minutes so that the milk curdles completely.
5

Drain the curdled milk into a cloth.
6

Rinse the paneer with cold water so that the final paneer doesn’t have any taste of vinegar.
7

Bring the ends of cloth together and squeeze as much water as you can.
8

Then flatten the paneer (wrapped inside the cloth) and place it on a flat surface. Then place a heavy object on top for it to set.
9

I placed a tray and then placed marble rolling board on top. Leave it undisturbed for 3 to 4 hours.
10

Once the paneer is set, remove it carefully from the cloth and cut into cubes.
11

Use paneer in any of your favorite recipes. Yum