{"id":3404,"date":"2013-04-10T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T11:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2015-06-01T17:12:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T11:42:47","slug":"paneer-tikka-the-wow-punjabi-appetizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/paneer-tikka-the-wow-punjabi-appetizer","title":{"rendered":"Paneer Tikka – The Wow Punjabi Appetizer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paneer Tikka Hits a Big League Amongst Gourmet Cuisines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Do you know paneer tikka has a Wikipedia entry?\u00a0 What all would have the McDonald\u2019s management team gone through before deciding that it is critical for them to have a Paneer Tikka Wrap on their Indian menu to begin with?\u00a0 Why would Pizza Hut go ahead and use Paneer Tikka and create a Paneer Tikka Pizza? The reason is simple, once out of the tandoor the paneer tikka is simply irresistible.\u00a0 The very sight of it being removed from a skewer is mouth watering.\u00a0 Many of us just don\u2019t wait for the Naans to come out and polish the Paneer Tikka without anything on the side.\u00a0 Over the last decade or so, this humble Punjabi appetizer has become a dish which giant MNC\u2019s of the global food business cannot afford to ignore.<\/p>\n

Paneer tikaa\u2019s popularity has led to it becoming part of many dishes.\u00a0 Today the name paneer tikka is prefixed and suffixed with numerous words. Amongst dishes with prefixes, the Zafrani Paneer Tikka has started commanding the coveted position of a main dish on a formal dining table.\u00a0 Paneer Tikka Masala where masala is a suffix to paneer tikka, is giving Shahi Paneer a run for its money.\u00a0 No kabab platters today are complete without paneer tikka finding a place on them.<\/p>\n

Paneer tikka is not paneer on a skewer, shoved in a tandoor and taken out in 10 minutes.\u00a0 There is a lot which goes into making a good paneer tikka.\u00a0 To begin with, there has to be good quality \u00a0Cottage cheese, which should be marinated with a great marinade for \u00bd to 1 hour, prepared with the choicest spices and herbs.\u00a0 The trick is that the flavor of the spices and the herbs must get as deep inside the cheese cubes as possible.\u00a0Many people say that you don\u2019t even need a tandoor to make a paneer tikka, I find that ridiculous, without the tandoor the flavour just doesn’t enter the paneer.\u00a0 Marinating paneer before grilling it becomes all the more important when the paneer tikka is becoming part of a dish like a burger, a pizza, a kathi roll or a biryani. The reason being that the dish is going to derive its flavor from the paneer tikka and not the other way round.<\/p>\n

Next time when you set up a barbeque make sure paneer tikka is on top of your priority. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you know paneer tikka has a Wikipedia entry?\u00a0 What all would have the McDonald\u2019s management team gone through before deciding that it is critical for them to have a Paneer Tikka Wrap on their Indian menu to begin with?\u00a0 Why would Pizza Hut go ahead and use Paneer Tikka and create a Paneer Tikka […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3513,62,3508,3482,3487],"tags":[730,729],"class_list":{"0":"post-3404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-festival-and-celebration-cuisines","8":"category-food","9":"category-starters","10":"category-vegetarian","11":"category-north-indian","12":"tag-how-to-make-paneer-tikka-delicious","13":"tag-paneer-tikka"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45921,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/45921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}