Panir
Panir ( Persian : پنیر, Hindi : पनीर, English: Paneer) is an Indian cream cheese made from cow's milk with a crumbly to firm consistency. It is used, for example, as an insert in curries .
use
A popular dish from North India is z. B. Palak Panir , a spinach- based curry with diced panir. The cream cheese can also be fried in a batter made of chickpea flour and served as a snack (Panir Pakoda) or otherwise processed. Panir is also a main ingredient in some Indian desserts such as roshogulla . As a long-life dairy product, it is an important source of animal protein.
Manufacturing
Milk is boiled and curdled, for example by adding vinegar or lemon juice . The curdled components of the milk are separated from the whey with a fine cloth , rinsed with cold water and pressed.
literature
- Sunil Kumar, DC Rai, K. Niranjan, Zuhaib F. Bhat: Paneer - An Indian soft cheese variant: a review . Journal of Food Science and Technology, 2011, ISSN 0022-1155
- Shahnawaz Umer Khan, Mohammad Ashraf Pal: Paneer production: A review . Journal of Food Science and Technology, Volume 48, Number 6, December 2011, ISSN 0022-1155
- Priya Wickramasinghe, Carol Selva Rajah: Food of India . Murdoch Books 2005, ISBN 1740454723 , pp. 279–280 ( excerpt (Google) )
- YH Hui (Ed.): Handbook of Food Products Manufacturing . John Wiley & Sons 2007, ISBN 9780470113547 , pp. 645–648 ( excerpt (Google) )
Individual evidence
- ^ Sanjeev Kapoor: Vegetarian Rice, Biryani and Palao. 8th edition. Popular Prakashan, Mumbai, India 2014, ISBN 978-81-7991-324-6 .
