PANEER MALAI TIKKA

Paneer Malai Tikka is a delicious and creamy Indian grilled dish made with paneer that is marinated in a blend of yogurt, cream, and spices. The paneer is then grilled to perfection, giving it a unique and flavorful taste that is both savory and slightly sweet.

Malai Paneer Tikka! It’s velvety, creamy and oh-so delicious. The malai tikka is also one of the most popular varieties of tikka that features on the menu of almost every restaurant that serves North Indian or Mughlai cuisine. As compared to the paneer tikka, the malai paneer tikka has milder flavors, yet is able to satisfy your taste buds and melt your heart.

First things first, since in this recipe of Paneer Malai Tikka, I have used hung curd in the marination; I will suggest you follow this post of How To Make Hung Curd and make your own batch at home.

There’s nothing better than using ingredients that are completely made from scratch at home. But yes of course, do this only if you have time in hand as this will be an extra procedure. If short of time you could also opt to use store brought greek yogurt.

This base marination is what exactly gives the dish a beautiful white hue along with making it smooth and creamy for the palate. Almost like a melt-in-mouth vegetarian tikka.

Cream is also added in this marinade mixture, which is probably why it is actually named as Paneer Malai Tikka. Cream is ‘malai’ in Hindi. This is also the layer of clotted cream that you get on top of heated milk.