Name: Peppers with Indian cheese
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 30 ml/2 tbsp sunflower oil or light olive oil; 30 ml/2 tbsp chives, snipped; Indian bread or Plain Boiled Rice, and a vegetable curry, to serve; 7.5 ml/1½ tsp cumin seeds; 1 large red pepper; 1 large green (bell) pepper; 2.5 ml/½ tsp salt, or to taste; 3-4 large cloves of garlic, crushed; 2.5 ml/½ tsp chilli powder; 225 g/8 oz paneer (Indian cheese), cut into 2.5cm/1in cubes

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Indian Regional Cookbook

By Mridula Baljekar

Published 2017

About

Paneer has a bland taste, but it absorbs other flavours well and adds protein as well as texture to a dish. In this north Indian recipe, Shimla Mirch Aur Paneer Ka Salan, it is combined with the warmth of roasted cumin and sweet red pepper.

Ingredients

1 large green (bell) pepper
1 large red pepper
7.5 ml/1½

Method

Preheat the grill (broiler) to high. Place the peppers on a grill pan and position it 15 cm/6 in below the heat source. Grill (broil) the peppers for 8-10 minutes, until the skin

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