Halwai May 10, 2025

Ingredients:

• 6-8 slices – sandwich bread
• 100 g – Paneer or Cottage cheese
• 1 – Onion
• 1.5 tsp – Garam Masala
• 1 tsp – chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp – Ginger Garlic paste
• 1 cup – gram flour or besan
• Salt to taste
• Water
• Oil for deep frying

Method:

  1. Chop the onions. Grate paneer.
  2. Heat 1 tbsp of oil and add ginger garlic paste, onions. Saute for sometime.
  3. Add paneer, salt, chilli powder, garam masala and saute for some more time. Keep aside.
  4. Remove edges from the bread and cut them diagonally to get triangle shapes.
  5. Mix a pinch of salt with gram flour and add a cup of water to make a batter of thick consistency.
  6. On one bread triangle, apply the paneer filling and sandwich with another slice on top.
  7. Heat oil in a kadai. In the meantime make all the sandwiches and keep them ready.
  8. Once the oil is hot, dip the sandwich in the batter and fry them till golden brown.
  9. Drain on absorbent paper.
  10. Serve hot with tomato sauce or date and tamarind chutney.

Recipe courtesy of Bharathi