How to make Homemade Paneer??

Sometimes when you have excess milk at home, and you dont know how to use it, the best alternatives are curd, paneer, kheer and even halwa...

You must know just how to use the right thing at the right time....

I generally make paneer at home, to use in bhurjee and to make paneer parathas... I like to use freshly made paneer for this.
Its quiet simple to make. you just need

Ingredients:
1l Milk
1.5 tbsp lime juice
2tbsp Fresh Cream  (optional)
Few ice cubes
Strainer

Muslin cloth

Procedure:

• Heat milk.
• Add in the fresh cream
• When it starts to boil.
• Switch off the gas..
• Now add in the lime juice.
• When the water separates, add in few ice cubes.
• After a while, 
• Strain it in a muslin cloth using a strainer.
• Tie the muslin cloth on a tap to remove excess water.

Note:

• In order to make use paneer in making a sabzi like paneer butter masala or anything same, put a brick over the muslin cloth in which u have strained the paneer.
• The paneer will become stiff and can be cut into cubes easily.
• In order to make malai paneer just add in the fresh cream.

Tomato Puree (Homemade)

Tomato Puree is something which is required in almost every dish... Recipes like Pastas, Tomato Rice, Paneer u need tomato puree.. This can be very easily be made at home..

Tomatoes with peeled skin

Ingredients:
1 kg Fresh Tomatoes
1l water









Procedure:

Tomato Puree

• Take a vessel, add in water.
• Keep it on stove, put in the washed tomatoes in the vessel.
• Let it boil, so that the skin starts coming out.
• when this happens, remove it from the stove.
• Now when it cools down, peel off the skin from the tomatoes.
• Blend the tomatoes in the food processor.
• the puree is ready
• Use it as and when required. 

To Preserve:

• In case u need to preserve then, after it is blended boil the mixture with 1 tsp vinegar, 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp sugar.
• Pour it in the ice cube tray, freeze it in the freezer.
• When it is freezed, remove it and store it in the zip-pouch.
• Use it as and when required.
• Do not re-freeze the puree again once out of the freezer.

Pudhina Powder

If you have a ready Pudhina Powder at home, then it will help you in making many dishes... It can be useful in making Raitas, beverages.... etc.
Its very easy to make this one...

Pudhina Powder

Ingredients:
1 bunch of mint leaves

Procedure:

• Take a bunch of mint leaves (pudhina).
• Separate the leaves.
• Wash it well.
• Now keep these leaves under the Sun for 2 days...
• After the pudhina leaves are well dried, grind it in the blender.

Store it in a air-tight container.