Smoked Cottage Cheese Patties With Curry Sauce

by Tarla Dalal

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Smoked cottage cheese patties topped with a fiery red curry sauce.

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Preparation Time : 30 minutes.
Cooking Time: 20 minutes.
Serves 4.

Ingredients

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)
1/2 teaspoon coriander seeds (dhania)
1/2 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)

For the curry sauce
2 teaspoons red curry paste
1 cup coconut cream
1 tsp oil
salt to taste

Method

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

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.

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