panner

plural panners

1. One who pans.

1. misspellinguncountableMisspelling of paneer (“Indian cheese”).

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   Uma, a South Indian upper caste woman said of her six year old son Vijay: “[Vijay] will eat Indian food only if it is from the packages, so Kannan ([Uma’s] husband) and I[, Uma,] go every weekend to the Indian store and we stock up on palak panner, malai kofta, chola puri and all that. All North Indian food [Vijay] likes.

   2013, Tulasi Srinivas, ““As Mother Made It”: The Cosmopolitan Indian Family, “Authentic” Food, and the Construction of Cultural Utopia”, in Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik, editors, Food and Culture: A Reader, Routledge, →ISBN, The Anxieties and Unintended Consequences of Cosmopolitan Consumption, page 365

   After checking the list of groceries, [Parvez] found that mutton would be cooked for dinner. Fortunately, or unfortunately, Parvez was vegetarian. He also found out by looking at other names on the list that Poori-Kheer would also be there for dinner along with Panner; typical north Indian food would take place on the menu card.

   2023, Manish ‘Parag’, chapter XII, in Half-Melted, Astitva Prakashan, page 132