Curry Recipes Online
Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: Kashmiri Bob on May 18, 2025, 08:35 AM
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Enjoyed watching this. When they get busy. Wow!
https://youtu.be/dYamh_RIOzs?si=ovW5E0YRb_bSaFkj
Rob
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Getting quite a few ideas from this video. My favourite part is the single portion Chicken Claypot Biryani (16:33). I think the rose water here could actually be a light rose syrup. Lots of recipes showing how to make it online.
Anyway, I am looking for a couple of those dinky pots.
Rob
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Unles the video suggests otherwise, Rob (I don't know, I have not yet watched it), I would suggest that it might be East End brand Rose Water (they also do Kewra Water in the same range).
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** Phil.
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It's not East End Phil. Deeper colour and more viscous. Do watch the video when you get chance. The editing is clumsy in places, but overall it's very good. Nepalese chef. I am going to have a go at making my own paneer. It looks quite straightforward; bet it isn't. For the claypot presume the flavours of the seasoning permeates through the pastry.
Amazing from 7.30 pm. Fabulous. When I visit Milan next...
Rob
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Unles the video suggests otherwise, Rob (I don't know, I have not yet watched it), I would suggest that it might be East End brand Rose Water (they also do Kewra Water in the same range).
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** Phil.
Just noticed there is a typographical error in your post Phil. R U OK?
Rob
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Just going senile — it gets us all in the end !
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It's not East End Phil. Deeper colour and more viscous. Do watch the video when you get chance. The editing is clumsy in places, but overall it's very good. Nepalese chef. I am going to have a go at making my own paneer. It looks quite straightforward; bet it isn't. For the claypot presume the flavours of the seasoning permeates through the pastry.
Amazing from 7.30 pm. Fabulous. When I visit Milan next...
Rob
I have made my own paneer a few times Rob. It isn't too complicated at all, but it helps to have a press of some kind. I used a small rectangular plastic trinket basket and a suitably cut piece of acrylic sheet along with a perfectly sized Railway electrical wire tensioning weight I had lying around. You will also need a milk thermometer or just a candy thermometer. What I found though, was that it is not really cost effective, unless you can get full cream milk at reduced prices.
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Just going senile — it gets us all in the end !
Same as me, although I regularly do 5 typos a day.
Rob
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I have made my own paneer a few times Rob. It isn't too complicated at all, but it helps to have a press of some kind. I used a small rectangular plastic trinket basket and a suitably cut piece of acrylic sheet along with a perfectly sized Railway electrical wire tensioning weight I had lying around. You will also need a milk thermometer or just a candy thermometer. What I found though, was that it is not really cost effective, unless you can get full cream milk at reduced prices.
Thanks livo, good tips. Will look into cost effectiveness. Cheese prices, in general, have gone though the roof here. The larger blocks of cheddar now have security tags on them in some supermarkets. Any idea how much milk I would need to make 500g paneer?
Rob
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It depends upon the fat content of the milk. Some people add extra cream to the milk, which I did on one occasion. I can't really recall the yields I achieved but it would be somewhere around 2 - 3 litres at least I'd say.
Rik (Loveitspicey / Backyard Chef) says 250 - 300 g per litre using full fat whole milk.
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Paneer is very straightforward and worth the time. I do it regularly with a gallon of whole milk. I bought the missis a cheese press the other year when we had a bash at making cheddar, but heavy pots can do the job too.
Chetna Makhan has a good video on it.
https://youtu.be/CD49ehg-gBQ?si=IPMPOMEXI2uORy2X
Robbo
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Thanks for all these great tips for making paneer. I am on it. Looking at a plastic press gadget. I like gadgets. One of the reviewers reckons it's the perfect size for paneer made with 2 l milk, which should be adequate for me. Can also store with it in the fridge. Only thing is, the inner basket is moulded, so when done my paneer will say TOFUTURE on top of it. Not ideal, but I can live with it.
Rob
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Paneer planed for this weekend. Wish me luck!
The video mentions paneer sandwiches (triangles) with a walnut filling. Would liked to have seen these being made. Whoever filmed this seemed most interested in what was coming out of the tandoor. Anyway, found a rather interesting recipe for a filling. It's actually part of a curry recipe, which looks nice, but I think the sandwiches themselves might be quite tasty, as a starter dish. I had some paneer sandwiches from a local place fairly recently. They had a really thin green filling. No idea what it was, as it didn't really taste of anything. Wasn't cheap either.
https://californiawalnuts.in/walnut-paneer-pasanda/
Rob
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Made some paneer. Lovely stuff. 360g block from 2l milk, a slosh of single cream and fresh lemon juice. I think next time may add some more cream. The chef in the video recommends that the milk should be at least 5% fat. I had no idea whole milk is only about 3.5 - 3.8 % fat nowadays. I bet this is another idea from the EU. I remember the cream on the top of bottled whole milk from times gone by.
Press gadget worked well. Next time I will use the middle "setting," as under full tension it was starting to squeeze the cheese through the drainage holes.
Put half of the block in the freezer. Toasted the rest to make garlic chilli paneer. Had some with a shami kebab and tandoori chicken bites. Made a nice little starter.
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Rob
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Nice work Rob. Glad the gadget worked well for you. Was it better than the paneer you can buy? I too remember the days of cream at the top of the milk bottle :clown2: Been doing a bit of basic traditional indian cooking recently. It's prompting a few questions on how the traditional process transposes to BIR practices and the pitfall we sometimes have. Food for thought :smile2:
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Nice work Rob. Glad the gadget worked well for you. Was it better than the paneer you can buy? I too remember the days of cream at the top of the milk bottle :clown2: Been doing a bit of basic traditional indian cooking recently. It's prompting a few questions on how the traditional process transposes to BIR practices and the pitfall we sometimes have. Food for thought :smile2:
Yes, I won't be buying supermarket paneer again. I suppose part of this will be the satisfaction of making it from scratch. Although it does seem identical to typical desi sweet/vegetarian places, as I recall, which is presumably also homemade, and really good. Forgot to mention I did add salt when making it. Next will be the paneer sandwiches with a walnut filling. The recipe indicates mixed pickle so will go with this. Am thinking about trying a lime pickle instead at some point.
Tell us more about your transpositions Dave.
Rob :)