July 19, 2007

Cottage Cheese Bhurji



Cottage Cheese has good amount of protein, so I am using that at least once in a day these days. I guess you will see more recipes of this in the coming days.

Instead of Paneer for the bhurji, I added Cottage Cheese to see how that tastes, this tasted similar but a little sour as I have used 2% fat. Next time I will try it with full fat, may be it will taste little sweeter. But overall result, I liked it, I ate this in the restaurants, they add fresh lime juice to it once it is done and without adding that I got the sour taste naturally.

You need…

1 cup of cottage cheese
1 medium, onion, chopped
2 roma tomatoes, chopped into big chunks. *
2 green chillies, chopped
½ tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
2 tbsp oil.
½ tsp garam masala (optional)
A pinch of turmeric
salt to taste
coriander for garnishing

  1. Heat oil in a pan, add onions and fry for 2 minutes. Do not brown them, just cook them till tender.
  2. Add ginger-garlic paste and fry for a minute.
  3. Add tomato chunks, green chillies, and cook them till done for 1 or 2 minutes.
  4. Add turmeric, salt, chilli powder, garam masala and mix.
  5. Reduce flame and add cottage cheese, garam masala and let it cook for 3-4 minutes.
  6. Garnish with coriander.

Serve hot with chapattis.


* Do not use juicy tomatoes as the curry will become soggy and mushy and if you want the gravy, the milk from the cottage cheese is just enough for that.





16 comments:

Jyothi said...

Hi Lata! looks great and yummy. Never thick curry with cottage cheese. Such a good idea too. Thanks for sharing.

Richa said...

i always wondered how the bhurji wud taste with cc, good to know u had a successful attempt. will look out for ur other recipes with cc :)

ramya said...

hi lata,
good one.today i will also bring cottage cheese.i love cheese.

bhags said...

nice recipe lata, it looks yummy.

Asha said...

Lata,I like cottage cheese and Ricotta to use in Indian cooking.Baked Bhurgi looks yummy!:))

Dee said...

Nice recipe , looks yummy lata. cottage cheese is new to me!

TheCooker said...

Wow! What an innovative twist to the usual bhurji.

Tee said...

nice recipe! I had once tried cooking with cottage cheese but it was a big failure :) your recipe looks apt for this. thanks!

Lubna said...

Hi Lata,
Love your blog, like you I'm a blue blood Hyderabadi too. Its so good to see someone here, from back home...
Keep up the good work.
Lubna.

Viji said...

Nice recipe,looks good.

Roopa said...

wow lata, baked bhurji looks yummy. i have never tried this yet.

Jyothsna said...

Love bhurjis, will try this out!

Shivapriya said...

I use cottage cheese in pasta & salad but never tried in Indian dishes. good one.

Kajal said...

Cottage Cheese Bhurji with roti.....Please send one dish for me....Delicious dish my dear.:)

SeeC said...

This is new to me. Will definitely try this.
Thanks for the post.

s.j.simon said...

did you know how cheese was invented? It wasnt necessity, it was an accident, read this

 
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