Chanar dalna is quite a popular Bengali vegetarian dish. People just love to have it as a side dish. With some easy to get ingredients you can easily prepare this dish. In-fact instead of buying the prepared paneer from market you can prepare it at your home.

Ingredients:

• Oil- For frying
• Turmeric powder- ¼ tsp
• Green chillies- 2-3
• Ghee/clarified butter- 1 tbsp
• Water- 1 cup
• Sugar- ½ tsp
• Garam masala powder- ½ tsp
• Ginger paste- 1 tsp
• Salt- As per taste
• Milk- ½ cup
• Cumin seed paste- 1 ½ tsp
• Cumin seeds- ½ tsp
• Potatoes (medium) – 1 (chopped into cubed shaped)
• Cottage cheese/paneer- 250 gm (cubed)

Direction:

• Take a frying pan & heat oil over the medium temperature.
• Add the chopped potato cubes & fry it a little bit.
• Now keep them separately.
• After remove the potatoes now add the paneer cubes into the same oil & fry a little bit.
• After frying them transfer them into hot water.
• In a separate vessel heat the ghee/clarified butter & pour the cumin seeds.
• Let them crackle & pour the cumin paste along with turmeric powder, water (little bit) & ginger juice.
• Stir well for almost 2 minutes.
• Pour the green chillies along with fried potatoes, salt & garam masala powder.
• Stir well all the ingredients.
• Now remove the fried paneer cubes from hot water & add into the frying pan.
• Pour the milk along with some water & let it simmer for almost 4-5 minutes.
• Serve hot with paratha, roti, rice or pulao.