Home made Indian cheese - Paneer

INGREDIENTS :

Milk - 1 Gallon
Lemon - 1/4 Cup

PREPARATION :

1. Boil the milk on a medium flame in a heavy bottomed pan,stirring occassionally.
2. When the milk is fully boiled ,pour the squeezed lemon gradually into the pan of boiling milk and stir gently.
3.Now ,the milk curdles and seperates the water from it.
4.Once it gets completely curdled,Use a clean muslin/cotton cloth to drain the water from it.
5.The curdled milk in the cloth can be hung up for few minutes or you can show it in running water to cool it down and squeeze well to drain down water completely from it.
6.U can keep the wrapped paneer under a heavy pan for a while.
7.Now you can refrigerate the contents and then make it into slices of Paneer.

This Paneer can be used to make desserts(Rasgullas) or dishes like Paneer butter masala.