Synthetic paneer is an unnatural paneer made artificially using various ingredients such as starch, preservatives, vegetable oils and other fillers to make it look similar to real paneer's texture and flavour.Take a look at 6 ways to recognise it.
Take some paneer in your hand and analyse its texture and moisture. Real paneer is soft and slightly moist, so when you apply some pressure on the real paneer it will fall apart while the synthetic paneer will feel dry or excessively moist.
Just take some water in a pan, boil it and put some paneer and a few drops of iodine tinctures into it, after cooling down real paneer will turn yellow while fake paneer will seem blue.
Just boil some arhar dal in water and then add some slices of paneer into the boiling lentil, synthetic paneer will turn light red while real will dissolve in the batter.
While buying, always taste some amount of paneer and if paneer feels chewy and gives a bitter sour taste, the paneer is synthetic and has been made artificially.
The easiest way is just to smell the paneer and if it emits a sour or unpleasant odour it is synthetic while if it scents milk and aromatic like dairy it is real paneer.
Just heat some oil in a pan and add some amount of paneer to it. The real one will not release oil while a fake one will release so much oil as it is filled with starch.
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