Last week, everyday I forgot to get my wife what she asked for. I would come home empty handed to Dee who would open the door, expecting a bunch of mint…and there I would stand my laptop case in hand, and sorry about my amnesia. So sunday afternoon both of us went hunting for mint. Not in the Asian Market..couldnt find it in Safeway or the walmart neighbourhood….looked for it in every aisle in fry’s. I was about to give up, but Dee, determined as she is, got the lady in the produce section to find out a small box of it.
Guess what….with Paneer at home, I remembered these simple, easy to make and awesome tikkis I had once in a seaside resort back in Chennai. With a weekend full of work, I wanted to compensate for Dee’s cooking during the weekend with this nice Pudina Paneer tikkis served piping hot with sweet’n’sour Date & Tamarind chutney and volunteered to post it too.
Ingredients:
1 cup crumbled paneer
2 tablespoons corn flour
2 tablespoons chopped mint
1 green chilli finely chopped
1 teaspoon chat masala or garam masala (optional)
Salt according to one’s taste
Method:
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl , keep wetting your hands to roll the paneer into rounds and flatten them like tikkis. Its important to wet your hands, otherwise its difficult to make the tikkis
Heat a tawa and add a tablespoon of oil and pan fry the tikkis until brown on both sides.
These can crumble , so handle with care ! Serve immediately and enjoy them with sweet and sour tamarind chutney or green chutney!
This goes to Herb Mania - Mint . Last day for entries is tomorrow .
- K
July 14th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
oh that is so sweet
the tikkis look absolutely yummy!
July 15th, 2008 at 12:23 am
Nice tikki!
I had a different kind of problem. I would get pudina and let it dry up, then buy another bunch of leaves and forget about it. Finally by the time I actually made the Pudina Gatte I had thrown away 2 bunches of leaves and was using the third one!
July 15th, 2008 at 1:16 am
lovely tikkis and a nice post
July 15th, 2008 at 4:14 am
K, those tikkis look beautiful. Dee I bet they tasted doubly tasty.
You just had to stop at my house, I am tearing my hair out wondering how to get rid of the mint growing all over
Dee, I have another recipe with Kollu posted a few days ago. Take a look.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:23 am
nice one,..tikkis look yummy…good post too
July 15th, 2008 at 4:24 am
The pudina hunt paid off.. tikkis look totally delish!
July 15th, 2008 at 4:31 am
The tikkis look very good K. So did the samosas too!
July 15th, 2008 at 4:52 am
K, the tikkis look very good indeed
July 15th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Love these tikkis, lovely post
July 15th, 2008 at 5:59 am
Oh Yum! I never remember to make these tho’ I have paneer and mint at home!
July 15th, 2008 at 7:46 am
tikkis look sooooo beautifulllll
July 15th, 2008 at 9:05 am
That is soo sweet of you K. tikkis look yummy
July 15th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
These tikkis looks so delicious! Dee sure is lucky
July 15th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
hmmmm tikkis are ready to eat, shall I give you my address :D, post some of them :))
July 15th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Thank you all for your encouraging words on my first post. I look forward to posting more of these delicious yummies from my recipe collection.
-K
July 16th, 2008 at 12:17 am
K, that looks really delicious. few ingredients and simple recipe is what got my full attention
thank you.
July 16th, 2008 at 7:42 am
even for a not-so-good mint fan like me, that looks tempting!! great job, dee
nice write-up too 
July 16th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Will try looks super…
July 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
You little romantic! They look great and bet you scored some extra points with Dee…
July 16th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
do you mail order those?
July 16th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
btw, stick mint in a pot (never in the ground), and every winter it will die down, but it scatters so many seeds, that it will grow back like crazy. it is invasive so don’t plant it in the ground. but in a pot, plant it once, and you will never run out of mint.
bee
July 17th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Beautiful picture…love the recipe. and it is a great entry:-)
July 17th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
When is the announcement for the next herb coming?
July 18th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Yes bee, we do, just let us know how many u want
and yes we did stick the mint into a pot last week , lets see if we are lucky .. thanks for the tip.
-K
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:51 am
Wow, these look so awesome…. your pictures are simply superb!