Smoked Cottage Cheese Patties with Curry Sauce
by Tarla Dalal
01 Jan 2001
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Smoked cottage cheese patties topped with a fiery red curry sauce.
Smoked Cottage Cheese Patties with Curry Sauce recipe - How to make Smoked Cottage Cheese Patties with Curry Sauce
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Serves 4.
For the patties
2 cups cottage cheese (paneer), grated
4 green chillies, chopped
1 tsp chopped lemon grass (hare chai ki patti)
2 tbsp chopped coriander (dhania)
1 tbsp lemon juice
4 tbsp plain flour (maida)
salt to taste
oil for shallow frying
To be ground into red curry paste
4 whole dry kashmiri red chillies
1 tbsp chopped onion
2 cloves of garlic (lehsun)
1 stalk of lemongrass (hare chai ki patti)
2 stalks coriander (dhania)
1/4 tsp coriander seeds (dhania)
1/2 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)
For the curry sauce
2 tsp red curry paste
1 cup coconut cream
1 tsp oil
salt to taste
Method
For the patties
For the curry sauce
How to proceed
- Method
For the patties
- For the patties
- Mix all the ingredients except the oil in a bowl.
- To smoke the mixture, put a piece of charcoal on the gas.
- When the charcoal turns red, carefully put it in a katori (small bowl).
- Place this katori inside the bowl containing the patties mixture.
- Pour 1 teaspoon of oil on the charcoal.
- Cover the bowl with a lid. Allow the mixture to be smoked for 3 minutes and take out the charcoal katori.
- Divide the mixture into 4 equal portions and shape the portions into 100 mm. (4") diameter patties.
- Heat oil in a non-stick pan and shallow fry the patties on both sides till golden brown.
For the curry sauce
- For the curry sauce
- Heat the oil in a saucepan, add 2 teapsoons of the red curry paste and fry for a few minutes.
- Add the coconut cream and salt and cook till the sauce thickens.
- Strain through a sieve and keep aside.
How to proceed
- How to proceed
- Place each patty in an individual serving plate.
- Reheat the curry sauce and pour some of it on each patty.
- Serve hot
- You can also make small koftas of the patties mixture, deep fry them and serve in the curry sauce.
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