Photo: Sugeesh at ml.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Westbengal · Breakfast

Cottage Cheese Curry

Traditional 54. Cottage Cheese Curry recipe

🧺 Ingredients

• 200g paneer, crumbled into small pieces
• 3 tbsp ghee or mustard oil
• 1/2 medium onion, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
• 100g tomatoes, crushed
• 2-3 green chillies, minced
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• 1/4 tsp red chilli powder
• 1/4 tsp coriander powder
• 1 tbsp fresh coriander, chopped
• Salt to taste

👩‍🍳 How to make Cottage Cheese Curry

1. Heat ghee (1 min, high): Ghee shimmering.
2. Add paste (1 min, medium): Stir in ginger-garlic paste and green chillies until raw smell disappears.
3. Add tomatoes (2 mins, medium): Add crushed tomatoes, cook until they break down into oil.
4. Add spices (1 min, medium): Dust turmeric, chilli powder, coriander powder. Stir 60 secs.
5. Add paneer (2 mins, low): Gently add crumbled paneer, fold through carefully—paneer should maintain irregular crumbled texture, not become paste. Heat through.
6. Finish (1 min, low): Check salt, garnish with coriander.

Track the macros of Cottage Cheese Curry and 100s of Indian dishes with Nutri Macro India.