Happy Cooking: Paneer Bhurjee/Cottage Cheese crumble....Indian Masala

Dear Single,

This is a keenly flavoured quick dish which can be a substitute for any non-veg platter. You will often make this dish......and enjoy it every time with thin rolled out, lightly oiled paratha.


For this dish you will require


1. 200 gms Paneer/Cottage cheese.

2. 01 medium size onion-cut into thin slices.

3. 01 Tomato-diced fine.

4. 02 green chillies- seeded, cut into thin strips. Few sprigs of fresh coriander

5. 01 tps ginger garlic paste. Salt to taste.

6. 01 tps jeera, coriander powder, black pepper powder & 1/2 tps turmeric, 3-4 green cardamom.

7. Juice of one lime/lemon.

8. 03 Tps cooking oil/ 50 gms cooking butter.



Method.

Step One

1. Crumble the entire paneer/cottage cheese to small marble size.

2. Arrange all of the raw items and keep ready to use one after the other without much loss of time, as you go along.

Step Two

1. In the Kadai/wok/frying pan, pour the entire oil and as it heats up put in the jeera. As it begins to fry count three slowly and put in the green chilly and the ginger garlic and stir till the garlic begins to fry, put in the sliced onions and stir on medium flame for a while till the onions become transparent.

2. Add salt, turmeric and fry for a minute and put in the crumbled paneer. Stir fry till all of cheese gets coated and appear bright yellow colour.

3. Add to this half of the tomatoes and fry till the tomato begin to wilt, sprinkle in all of the dry powder masala and split open green cardamom. Stir fry on reduced flame for 02 mts.

4. Pour in half of the lime juice, mix and add the remaining of the tomatoes. Remove from fire.

On the serving plate garnish with remaining lime juice & fresh coriander.

Serve Hot with Chapati/Paratha.