Paneer Bread Balls / Paneer Balls

I have tasted paneer balls from Nilgiris and was wondering what ingredients went in to make these tasty balls. But I knew potato and panner were the main ingredients. And the moment I saw these spinach cheese balls from the cookbook by Tarladalal the idea struck me to make these paneer bread balls. But know what?! except the ball idea I totally modified the recipe to my convenience :)

Ingredients :

• Paneer - 1 cup
• Bread - 3 slices
• Potato - 1/2 (just for binding)
• Onion - 1 finely chopped
• Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp
• Tomato Sauce - 1 tbsp
• Rava - 1/2 tbsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Chilli powder - 1 tsp
• Oil - as required

Method:

1. Crumble the paneer well. Knead it for 5mins until well combined. Boil potatoes until soft and combine with paneer and keep aside.
2. Cut the corner of the bread slices, sip it in water and add it to crumbled paneer . then add all the other ingredients except oil and combine to form a smooth dough just enough to roll into balls.
3. Now pinch equal sized balls and roll them into small balls and deep fry them in oil(I used my paniyaram pan to toast them to reduce oil)

My Notes:

• It is a very easy and interesting snack/starter idea. I have seen this in nilgiris in the name of paneer balls.
• Alternatively you can dip the balls in maida water paste , them cover them with breadcrumbs as we do for veg cutlets and then deep fry or toast them.