Chenna (paneer) Paturi …. from the kitchen of Laksmi Rao
To serve 4 Persons
Ingredients
250gms freshly broken Chenna
2 tbsp Raw Mango Juliennes
1 inch finely cut ginger
2 pieces finely cut deseeded green chillies
1tsp Sugar
One tsp mustard seeds
2 tbsps finely cut coriander leaves
Salt to taste
8 freshly cut turmeric plant lesves( if unable to source , substitute with banana leaves)
Tooth picks
Method
In freshly broken chenna mix ginger , green chillies, mango juliennes ,corriender leaves ,sugar and salt to taste
Soak mustard seeds for 30 mins and grind them to a paste
Mix this to crumbled chenna.
Cut turmeric leaves into 8 six inch squares .
Spoon chenna equally into each of the leaf squares
Flatten chenna into a rectangle shape and fold the leaf ends to form s cover. Pin the cover with the tooth pick
Steam these folded squares in a steamer for 10 to 15 mins.
Serve hot
If necessary reheating may done on an oiled tava .
