DRY CHEESE CHILLI

Ingredients:  (4 servings)

• Cottage Cheese (Paneer)- 250gms (cut into cubes)
• Onion thinly sliced  (pyaaz patle katte)– 4-5medium sized
• Capsicum thinly sliced (patli lambi katti shimla mirch)- 150gms
• Cabbage finely sliced (bahot patli lambi katti pattagobhi) – 1 small sized
• Chopped Garlic  (barik katta lehsoon)- 2 cloves
• Red grinded Tomatoes  (peese huye lal tamatar)- 4 medium sized
• Thinly sliced green chillies (patli lambi katti hari mirch)- 2
• Flour (Maida)- half cup
• Tomato ketchup – 3 spoons
• Soya sauce- 2-3 teaspoons
• Vinegar (Sirka)- 2 teaspoons
• Refined oil- to deep fry cheese
• Red chilly powder (degi lal mirch)- 1 teaspoon
• Salt (Namak)- to taste

How to make:

• Heat oil in deep frying pan/kadhai
• Sieve flour in a plate. Add pinch of salt and pinch of red chilly powder and mix well
• Coat diced cheese in dry flour evenly and dust out extra flour (we used dry flour rather than flour paste, to make cheese lighter, you can make paste of flour also, its optional) and fry in hot oil for 10-15 seconds till it turns golden brown. And sieve the fried cheese on kitchen napkin to extract extra oil
•  Take a kadhai (big one), put 4-5 spoons of oil (can use the same oil used for frying cheese)
• Add chopped garlic and sauté it till it turns light golden brown, now add sliced onion and capsicum, cabbage and green chillies and saute it for a min. Stir continuously to avoid burning Avoid overcooking, and let vegetables be crisp and crunchy.
• Add grinded tomatoes and stir well for next 30 seconds. Now add tomato ketchup, salt, remaining red chilli powder and mix well and cook for 5 seconds.
• After that add vinegar and soya sauce and mix well and last but not the least add cheese and mix well.

CHEESE CHILLI  READY… THA NA SIMPLE J