Cottage Cheese Recipes – Paneer Tikka

Cottage cheese lends itself easily to a variety of cuisines and it’s hard to go wrong with cottage cheese. You can use it with fruits and other desserts or with salt, pepper and other spices as a dip or as a salad dressing.

Here is a simple healthy recipe for a cottage cheese dish that you can prepare at home:

Paneer Tikka

Ingredients:

• 150 grams of cottage cheese (Pressed cottage cheese)

• 1 medium sized capsicum

• Olive oil (While olive oil is the healthiest choice you can use any cooking oil)

• Handful of mint and coriander leaves

• Ginger garlic paste (1 tablespoon)

• Gram flour (1 tablespoon)

• A pinch of turmeric powder

• Crushed carom seeds (Half teaspoon)

• Red chili powder (Quarter teaspoon)

• Cumin powder (Quarter teaspoon)

• Garam masala powder (Quarter teaspoon)

• Lemon juice (1 teaspoon)

• Salt

Preparation:

• Cut the cottage cheese into little squares or cubes.

• Chop the capsicum into small pieces about the size of the cottage cheese cubes.

• Mix the ginger garlic paste, gram flour, turmeric powder, carom seeds, chili powder, cumin powder, garam masala and lemon juice. If you wish to, you can also add salt to the mixture now, or you may sprinkle salt over the dish once prepared.

• Once the ingredients have been mixed well, add the cottage cheese and capsicum to the mixture.

• Mix once more to ensure that the cottage cheese is well coated.

• Skewer the cottage cheese and capsicum pieces on toothpicks, alternating between the two.

• Pour some olive oil onto a frying pan and heat it.

• Add the skewered cottage cheese on to the pan and fry it till it takes on light brown hue and becomes crisp. Avoid frying it too much.

• If you can’t fry all the cottage cheese at once you can do so in batches.

• Once done with the frying, make sure to drain the skewered cottage cheese on paper napkins, so as to get rid of the excess oil.

Your paneer tikka is now ready to serve and you can sprinkle some chopped coriander and mint leaves over it and even add some more lemon juice before digging in!