Bidisha's Corner

Tuesday 5 August 2014

Cottage Cheese in sweeto tango gravy / Chanar Dalna

Chanar dalna is home made cottage cheese prepared by mixing lemon juice into boiling milk and then draining out the water and obtaining the solid cheese (chana). Then this cottage cheese is used to make gravy.

INGREDIENTS:
Cottage cheese made out of a liter milk.
For kofta balls:
    Salt to taste.
    Red chilli powder (1 Tsp).

    Turmeric powder (1 Tsp).
   Sugar (1 Tsp).
   Oil for frying.
For gravy:
   Boiled baby potatoes (200 gms) (SOS).
   Salt to taste.
   Ginger paste (1 Tsp).
   Red chilli powder (1 Tsp), coriander powder (1 Tsp).
   Turmeric powder (1 Tsp).
   Maida (2 TBs).
   Chopped tomatoes / tomato pulp (1 cup).
   Whole garam masala.
   Oil (1 TBs).
   Garam masala powder (1 Tsp).
  Water (1-2 cups).

PROCEDURE:
In a big bowl mix cottage cheese with salt, sugar, chili powder, turmeric powder and knead well and make small small dumplings and fry them in oil and keep aside.
Now remove the excess oil and follow with the further proceedings. Add whole garam masala to oil and allow them to pop up, now add ginger paste, tomato pulp add salt and allow it to cook till oil leaves the walls of wok, now add maida and little water, now meanwhile add chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, baby potatoes and cook well, now again add remaing water and allow it to cook as it gets to boil add fried kofta balls and now add garam masala powder to it, add ghee about (1 tsp)(sos). Off the flame and enjoy with rice, roti or puri.

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