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Yes; you are right; my doctor has advised me to have oil free snacks whenever available. Or at least snack foods that have only traces of oil in them. But why this jihad against oil, I ask. The answer is quite simple. Oil, I assert is itself a highly processed food (alike all other processed foods we rail against), while it is not a very good bang for the calorie buck and seldom offers anything but lots of fat for the consumer.
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Let’s be quite honest about it – no oil is good for us. Olive oil has been fortunate enough to have excellent promotional base around it to convince people that it is healthy for all, when in actual realty it is not, while the olive of course, is.
Also, look at it this way; there is no oil occurring in nature. It has to be pressed and extracted out of something else. Why, our ancestors did not consume olive oil but they ate olives whenever they wanted. And so do I.
However, since we are not living in Stone Age, nor are we cavemen in the true sense of it, from where do we or can we obtain oil free snacks for our day to day consumption? Well, where there is a will, there is a way. Look for Reshu’s (Reshu Drolia, well known food writer-cum-chef who owns popular recipe website MINTRECIPES) Oil free Paneer Bread Pakora or Paneer Pakoda Sandwich to get it.
Why; I am not the only one that craves for it, as Riva and Ashvat, Reshu’s darling children also fall for this oil-free snack food. However, you can hear from her own lips about how to prepare this special snack item.
This can be a somewhat healthy pakoda sandwich compare to one which is totally made of deep frying. I have stuffed cottage cheese or popularly known as paneer, into this sandwich. Your kids are going to love this sandwich. Riva and Ashvat just loved this and even asked me to make it again.
Recently i have also made veg curd sandwich recipe. It came out yummy and delicious.So, let’s see know how this bread paneer pakora sandwich is made.
Oil free Bread Pakora
Ingredients
- 6 Slices white bread /brown bread
- Coriander mint chutney
- Tomato sauce
- Few drops oil
For Paneer Stuffing:
- 200 gms cottage cheese /Paneer
- Chaat masala
- Salt to taste
For batter:
- 1 cup Gram flour
- ¼ tsp Carom seed
- ¼ tsp Cumin seed
- ¼ tsp Mango powder
- Coriander leaves
- ¼ tsp Red chilly powder
- Salt to taste
Instructions
Preparation of gram flour/ besan batter:
- Take a mixing bowl put gram flour and add all the spices- Carom seed, cumin seed, Mango powder, freshly chopped coriander leaves, red chilly powder and salt to taste.
- Add water gradually.
- Mix it well.
Preparation of pakora:
- Trim the edges of bread.
- Take 4 slices of bread and spread a teaspoon of coriander mint chutney on two slices of bread.
- Spread a teaspoon of tomato sauce on another two slices of bread.
- Cut the cottage cheese into ½ inch thick squares.
- Take a slice of paneer and put it on the tomato sauce bread.
- Sprinkle some chaat masala and salt on the paneer slices.
- Now place the Coriander mint chutney bread on top of the paneer bread slice and press it slightly.
- Spread little oil in the pan so that pakora does not stick to the pan.
- When the pan becomes medium hot, take the sandwich and dip in the besan batter and coat evenly on both the sides.
- Put the besan batter coated sandwich in the hot pan.
- Drizzle little oil on top of the coated sandwich. Now cook the bread pakora for 2 minutes on low flame from lower side.
- After 2 minutes flip the pakora and cook from another side for 2 minutes on low flame.
- When the light brown spots appear on both the sides keep the flame on medium and cook till it turns golden brown and crisp.
- Oil free paneer bread pakora is ready, slice them diagonally.
- Serve hot with tomato sauce or any Coriander chutney of your choice.
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How to make Oil free Paneer bread pakora:
Preparation of gram flour/ besan batter:
- In a mixing bowl put gram flour and add all the spices- Carom seed, cumin seed, Mango powder, freshly chopped coriander leaves, red chilly powder and salt to taste.
- Add water gradually to make a medium thick smooth batter. Do not add water at once otherwise batter might be become very thin in consistency.
- Mix it well so that there should be no lumps in the batter.
Preparation of pakora:
- Trim the edges of bread.
- Take 4 slices of bread and spread a teaspoon of coriander mint chutney on two slices of bread.
- Spread a teaspoon of tomato sauce on another two slices of bread. You can also apply chilly sauce instead of tomato sauce
- Take one slice of tomato sauce bread and one slice of coriander mint chutney bread.
- Cut the cottage cheese into ½ inch thick squares.
- Take a slice of paneer and put it on the tomato sauce bread.
- Sprinkle some chaat masala and salt on the paneer slices.
- Now place the Coriander mint chutney bread on top of the paneer bread slice and press it slightly.
- Heat non- stick pan on medium heat before dipping the sandwich in batter. Spread little oil in the pan so that pakora does not stick to the pan.
- When the pan becomes medium hot, take the sandwich and dip in the besan batter and coat evenly on both the sides. Do not dip the sandwich in the batter for longer time as it will get break.
- Put the besan batter coated sandwich in the hot pan.
- Drizzle little oil on top of the coated sandwich. Now cook the bread pakora for 2 minutes on low flame from lower side.
- After 2 minutes flip the pakora and cook from another side for 2 minutes on low flame.
- When the light brown spots appear on both the sides keep the flame on medium and cook till it turns golden brown and crisp.
- Oil free paneer bread pakora is ready, slice them diagonally.
- Serve hot with tomato sauce or any Coriander chutney of your choice.
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