Quick n Easy Recipe : Pan Roasted Pesto Paneer

by Rekha Kakkar
In Breakfast · Healthy · Lunch box · Paneer · Quick n Easy Recipes
— 9 Aug, 2012

I love fresh herbs but I told you same in the last post too, so this week when I made fresh pesto. Half of that was used in spaghetti but still had some leftover in the fridge which I used for this pan roasted paneer in basil pesto next morning.

So next morning when making sandwich for foodie teen’s lunch pack, I used fresh pesto as a filling for the sandwiches. He always prefers homemade lunch pack than ordering from his college cafeteria (one of the healthy food habits he has developed).

Coming back to Paneer, I love this paneer as it is quick n easy to prepare, exploding with fresh flavour and pairs beautifully with any meal. As it is with moving house, I am concentrating more on easy and quick dishes so that I can concentrate more on that part (some times you do not realize that how much you have accumulated, though I keep clearing clutter every now and then but still there is so much to sort through. So I keep this post little brief and share the recipe.

Pan Roasted Pesto Paneer

Serves: Serves 2-3-as a side dish
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

½ cup Fresh Basil Pesto ( recipe here)
250g Paneer sliced into 1 / ½ inch slice
Olive oil 1 tsp.

Directions:

In a medium bowl, combine paneer and pesto. Rub pesto over Paneer slices till they are coated well. I usually do this step sometimes before (overnight) and keep the bowl inside refrigerator for marinating as paneer absorbs any flavours beautifully.
When you are short on time you can avoid marinating overnight and use it right away.
Coat thick bottomed non stick pan with olive oil. Add marinated paneer in the pan and lower the heat to minimum.
Cook for 2-3 minutes and flip the side of paneer pieces, when they form a light crisp crust remove the pan from heat and use it as a side dish or as a filling for the sandwich.

Special Note

Paneer and pesto are a great combination of protein and with vitamins and minerals, Olive oil and nuts in the pesto provide healthy fat which aids in absorption of fat soluble vitamins and minerals. All this makes it one of nutritious dish to meet the nutritional demand of growing kids.

— Rekha Kakkar

Rekha Kakkar is a food photographer and stylist based in New Delhi India . She loves to explore all kinds of lifestyle photography , passionate about nutrition and healthy food and loves to share stories around it, often with some glimpses from her day to day life.

12 Comments

Ash says:

August 9, 2012 at 7:00 am

yum!

Priya says:

August 9, 2012 at 9:58 am

QUick and definitely addictive paneer cubes, loving it.

simran says:

August 9, 2012 at 12:54 pm

delicious!i love pesto,combining it with paneer is such a good idea!

Reshmi Mahesh says:

August 10, 2012 at 2:56 am

Delicious and the clicks are very cute..

chinmayie @ love food eat says:

August 10, 2012 at 7:23 am

SO simple and delicious…

Sowmya Karthy says:

August 13, 2012 at 4:20 pm

What a nice and interesting paneer

Sowmya
http://nivedhanams.blogspot.in

sangeeta says:

August 13, 2012 at 4:43 pm

Lovely. I do it with thin slices of paneer sometimes. It makes a nice meal in itself when served with loads of fresh salad greens. Even cucumber slices

- Rekha K says:
  
  August 13, 2012 at 5:11 pm
  
  Me too, served the bun sandwich with cucumber and mango salad
  
A Brown Table says:

August 13, 2012 at 5:31 pm

That is really an interesting and fun take on pesto and paneer. I will have to make this soon! Great job!

Purba says:

August 14, 2012 at 6:22 am

Finally a paneer dish, sans tomatoes and onions!

Btw…your pesto link is not working.

- Rekha K says:
  
  August 14, 2012 at 6:35 am
  
  Yes …that was exactly my thoughts when I made that …there should be some paneer dishes that do not have tomatoes in it . Link was not working because I forgot to link it linked it now !
  
Naveena Sukumaran says:

September 21, 2012 at 9:24 am

Great recipe. Trying it today, love pesto