Making of Paneer/Indian Cheese/Cottage Cheese

Paneer is used In india a lot  to make delicious dishes to deserts.  Paneer can be prepared at home quiet easily by adding some food acids to hot milk.

 Ingredients:

1 and 1/2 L of whole milk or 2% milk.

2-4 tbsp of lemon juice or vinegar.

 

Directions:

Take the milk in a big and heavy bottomed bowl and bring it to boil. When the milk comes to a boil, add lemon juice or vinegar and reduce the heat immediately with continuous stirring  until the milk is curdled totally from the whey. 

Remove the bowl from the heat and strain the mixture through muslin cloth or cheese cloth(thin cotton towels also work fine).

 

Repeat this process if the milk is not converted into curds completely.

 

Finally rinse it with cold water and press out excess water.

 

Wrap this paneer with the same cloth and place a heavy  weight( I used cooker with full water) on it for at least 1 hour and cut into cubes. 

 

Tasty paneer is ready to use.