Microwave Paneer Vegetable Rice | Step By Step Recipe to make Paneer Vegetable Rice in Microwave | Indian Microwave Recipe

When you think about making a Paneer Vegetable Rice, making it in microwave works out pretty good. As I have already said making a rice dish in microwave takes time but on the whole when you consider the texture and the time you get to attend to other chores, making a Rice dish sounds good.

Paneer Vegetable Rice goes great with Potato Peas Roast that was also made in Microwave. This is another of the recipes shared by the MW Chef. And make it quite often.

I met a reader of this blog yesterday and it was such a pleasant surprise. This was the first time I was meeting a person who reads this blog of mine other than my family and friends. Of course I have met my blogger friends. Meeting a reader is an altogether different thing, it puts lot of things into perspective. I have to thank R for her kind words and the appreciation she was so generous with. Though I know I don't get lot of comments from the readers, I was happy knowing what I write here is actually appreciated and beneficial. For that I am ever thankful. Thank you my dear readers!

Another exciting event for us was Konda's Cultural program. I took the day off to attend it and was at school quite early to get her dressed up for the program. It has been a different day of sorts. Never felt so relaxed and task less in long while! Well that only shows I ought to do this thing often.

Coming back to the recipe on hand, I hope you enjoy the step by step recipe!

Step by Step Recipe of making Paneer Vegetable Rice in Microwave.

In a microwave bowl, add the cubed paneer with a tsp of ghee

Chop onions and tomatoes, keep it aside.

Cube carrots and beans into 1 inch pieces.

Microwave paneer for 2 mins in microwave mode.

In a big bowl, add the oil and whole spices.

Next goes the onions..

Finally the tomatoes and chilies.

Followed by the ginger garlic paste.

Microwave for 10 mins.

Take it out and mash it well.

Add the vegetables and again microwave for 2 mins.

Remove and stir well with a ladle.

Add the chili powder and stir well.

Microwave for another 3 mins.

Add water and rice and microwave for 25 mins. It can be increased for 30 mins also.

In intervals of 10 mins, stir the bowl.

Next 10 mins..

Add Paneer pieces to rice.

After 10 min...

Stir well..

Final stage..once done cover with a lid.

Paneer Vegetable Rice in Microwave

Cooking Time - 45 mins in microwave mode
Serves - 5 -6 persons

Rice - 3 cups
Water - 6 cups
Paneer - 200 gms
Onions - 2 medium
Tomatoes - 2 medium
Green chilies - 2 long
Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp
Mixed Vegetable - 1 cup (I used Carrot and Beans)
Ghee - 1 tsp (opt)
Cinnamon - 3"
Cloves - 4
Fennel - 1/2 tsp
Red chili powder - 1 tsp
Salt to taste

Method to prepare:

Wash and soak rice for 30 to 1 hr. As you know cooking in microwave takes a longer time than in pressure cooker, so soaking for more time will always speedup the process

In a microwave safe bowl, take the cleaned and cubed Paneer pieces with 1 tsp ghee for 2 mins in microwave mode. Else you can also cook it for 5 mins in grill mode. Normally Paneer tends to get a little hard when you cook for more time in microwave mode directly.

Wash and chop the vegetables into 1 inch pieces, keep it aside.

In a big microwave safe bowl, take the oil, add the whole spices, then the onion julienne, slit green chilies, chopped tomatoes along with ginger garlic paste. Microwave for 10 mins.

Then add the chopped vegetables, to the above pan, micro for another 5 mins. Stop and stir after 2 mins. Add the Chili powder and continue cooking for the next 3 mins.

Add the rice along with measured water. Microwave for 25 mins. This takes about 25 to 30 mins to get cooked.

Please stop and stir at 10 mins interval. Add sauteed Paneer pieces to the Rice. In the final 5 mins interval, add the salt as salt needs to be added at the last stage in microwave cooking. Add a tsp of ghee if you so wish.

Sending this to Indrani who is guest hosting Microwave Easy Cooking event, themed on Combo Meals.

Sending along with this Rice, a Potato Peas Roast and Homemade Chocolates.

Vegetable Manchurian Recipe | Step by Step Recipe | Indo Chinese Recipe

Vegetable Manchurian was a great combo with Egg Fried Rice, which we had prepare nearly couple of months before. We normally make Cauliflower Manchurian as a side dish for Fried Rice. So Amma wanted to make something different and hence came up this wonderful recipe. This dish ends up being a clean up dish as you can add all your veggies that you might have left overs and tastes great.

Things have been pretty steady and hectic the past couple of days. I just announced the Kid's Delight on Indian Street Food. I was hoping I could prepare some pending Street foods that I had planned so many months before. Chocolate Round up will be up soon. Meanwhile I had some more bloggers being interested in the Blogging Marathon that it makes me think that maybe I should plan to do this again.

When I got back thinking I should post something within this week, this draft was literally calling me!..:) Imagine sitting idle in the drafts for so long without any attention. The vegetable manchurians tasted great as such, I saved some for eating as a starter without adding to the sauce. The sauce was made the same way we do for the Cauliflower Manchurian.

Step by Step to make Vegetable Manchurian

In a non stick pan, saute the onions, ginger, garlic and chili paste.

Then add the tomato sauce

Measure out soya sauce

Add the soya sauce to the pan

Followed by the corn flour mix

Add more water as required.

Fried Vegetable Manchurians

Add these balls to the sauce.

Finally garnish with spring onion greens

Vegetable Manchurian Recipe

To make the manchurian

Cabbage, Beans, Carrot, Potato - 1 cup
All purpose flour / Maida - 2 tsp
Corn flour - 1 tbsp
Green chillies - 3 nos
Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Ginger - 2"
Garlic - 4 pods
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying

To make the sauce

Soya sauce - 1 & 1/2 tbsp
Tomato Sauce - 1 & 1/2 tbsp
Corn flour - 1 tbsp
Salt to taste
Garlic - 4 pods
Spring onions - 1 bunch

Method to prepare:

For Manchurian

Clean and cut the vegetables. Grind the half, should not be ground into smooth paste, but half half.

Grind the chilis, ginger, garlic into a coarse paste. Take the rest of the ingredients required to make the manchurian in a bowl, add the chili paste, ground vegetables. Add salt and mix well. The batter should not be loose or runny, so add very little water. Make them into small balls.

Heat a pan of oil, Once it is hot, reduce to medium flame, deep fry these manchurian balls. Cook on both sides and drain to a kitchen towel.

For the sauce.

Heat a non stick pan with 1 tsp oil, Add the finely chopped onions from the spring onions, then add finely chopped garlic. Sauté till the onion bulbs turn colour. Keep the green of the spring onions for latter use.

Next add ginger garlic and chilli paste. Add soya sauce. Followed by tomato sauce

In a small bowl mix the corn flour with little water to form a lump less batter. Once paste is fried, add this to sauce. Adjust salt. Fry on high flame so that the sauce thickens. Just make sure it doesn't become too thick.

Add fried vegetable balls to the sauce. along the green onions stocks. simmer for 1 min.

If you don't want the manchurian to be soggy, add just before serving.

Serve this with Egg Fried Rice


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Nuts Poli for Sankranthi Special | Traditional Sankranthi Customs with Rangolis

Happy Sankranthi to all my readers!

Hope everybody has had great festival celebrations. Bhogi and Sankranthi is always celebrated with much pomp and planning. During school days we used to get almost four days off. I remember visiting my grandparent’s home for Sankranthi and it used to be so festive. We normally used to travel on Bhogi morning, and could see the “Bhogi Manta” or the Bon Fire that gets done on the early hours of Bhogi day.

We really should be very careful when traveling on the roads and the colourful Rangoli takes your breath away. Everybody competes with creating the most beautiful and pretty rangolis. This year we decided to visit my sils and landed on Bhogi day. Saw many colourful rangolis and my nieces had also done very pretty rangolis.

Refer how to make Poli from this Dal Poli

Nuts Poli

Ingredients Needed

All purpose flour - 1 cup
Cashew - Almond powder - 1/2 cup
Milk - 2 tbsp
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Ghee - 2 tsp
Salt a pinch

Method to prepare:

Shift the flour, add the ghee and rub well to get a crumbly form. Slowly add water and knead to a soft dough. Rest it aside.

To make the stuffing, heat a non stick pan, add the ghee, nuts powder. Stir well. Then add the sugar. Allow it to melt.

Then add the milk, continue stirring to get a thick paste. Allow it to cool.

Meanwhile, divide the dough into small balls. Pinch out small balls of the stuff, place in the middle and cover the ball over the stuffing.

Roll out as you do with a regular roti. Check out how to make the stuffed poli

Heat a tawa and cook on both sides with ghee.

What is a festival without a poli! Hope you make these and enjoy!

Below are some snippets from our celebrations  today. These Rangolis were done by my nieces.

 Bon Fire that we had

 Konda bringing in the different colours.

 This was the big Rangoli made by my nieces.

 Special bath preparation on Sankrathi. Sugar cane pieces, coins, hyacinth beans, Reni Kai (not sure of the english name, will find out soon.)

Everything mixed together and poured over small kids before having their bath.

Check out our previous year celebrations.

Hope everybody is enjoying. Will come back with pictures of the dishes made.

Microwave Potato Peas Roast | Step by Step Recipe

Taking up the Blogging Marathon, I am exhausted to find even a moment for anything else. Not that I am complaining. But I got this space to cater too and in the process seem to have forgotten to update. Evenings are becoming hectic as I have to prepare the planned dish for the marathon and with kids around it becomes extremely difficult. 

Because I decided until 15th it is going to be something with chocolates, they are naturally very interested. Like I made the chocolates at home, though this may not compete with the popular brands at store, it still gives a great feeling of happiness. More than anything Konda was so happy knowing that I could make something like that.

Boys were after me waiting to be given a taste of what was getting cooked. I strictly told them that it has to set if they want to eat it as a piece than as a fudge or sauce. They were content to lick the bowl clean.

Coming to today's post, these potato roast is a simple yet great one to get it done in microwave without much hassle. Since Indrani has asked us to make Combo Meal, I was determined that I will make at least 3 dishes as a thali.

Step by Step Recipe to make Microwave Potato Peas Roast

In a microwave safe bowl, take oil, then chopped onions, tomatoes, ginger garlic paste. Microwave for 5 mins.

It will become very cooked like this.

Make marks on the potatoes and micro for 10 mins for the skin to peel off.

Once done, put them in water and peel the skin right away taking care to mind the heat.

Cube them into small pieces.

Once the onions are done well, mix everything together,

Add the fresh peas

Add little water for the peas to get cooked.

Add the red chili powder, salt mix well. Micro for 1 min

finally add the cubed potatoes.

Mix everything well and microwave for 5 mins.

Serve with Microwave Paneer Pulao.

Microwave Potato Peas Roast:

Ingredients Needed:

Potatoes - 5 big
Peas - 100 gms
Onions - 2 medium
Tomatoes - 2medium
Ginger Garlic paste - 3/4 tsp
Red Chili powder 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil - 1 tsp

Method to prepare:

Wash and mark the potatoes on the top. Microwave them for 10 mins. Once done, put them into water and peel the skin off.

In a microwave bowl, add oil. Add the chopped onions, tomatoes, ginger garlic paste. Microwave for 5 mins.

Mix well, then add the peas, little water. Micro for 1 mins.

Then add the chili powder, salt potatoes mix everything well and again micro for 5 mins.

Serve with pulaos.

Sending this to Indrani who is hosting MEC this month themed on Combo Meals.

And also to PJ who is hosting Complete My Thali with the theme Sabji.