Cottage Cheese Steak
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Prep Time : 26-30 minutes
Cook time : 16-20 minutes
Serve : 4
Level Of Cooking : Easy
Taste : Spicy
Ingredients for Cottage Cheese Steak
- Cottage cheese (paneer) cut into 2 inch thick rectangles 400 grams
- Fresh parsley chopped 1 tablespoon
- Fresh mixed herbs chopped 1/2 tables teaspoon
- Black peppercorns crushed to taste
- Salt to taste
- Red chilli flakes 1 teaspoon
- Olive oil 4 tablespoons
- Cornflour 2 tablespoons
- Medium yellow squash halved vertically and sliced 1/2
- Medium green zucchini halved vertically and sliced 1/2
- 3 coloured capsicums cut into triangles 1 cup
- Broccoli florets blanched 10-12
- Medium carrot sliced and blanched 1
- Sauce
- Butter 1 tablespoon
- Refined flour 1 tablespoon
- Vegetable stock 1 cup
- Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon
- Black peppercorns crushed to taste
- Salt to taste.
Method
- Mix together parsley, ½ tbsp fresh herbs, crushed black peppercorns, salt, ½ tsp chilli flakes, olive oil and mix well.
- Apply this mixture on the cottage cheese pieces. Sprinkle cornflour over them and rub in well and set aside to marinate for 10-15 minutes.
- Take yellow squash and green zucchini in a bowl, add capsicum triangles, broccoli, carrot, remaining chilli flakes, salt, crushed black peppercorns, remaining mixed fresh herb and 1 tbsp olive oil and mix well.
- Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in non-stick pan, add the vegetables and toss well.
- Cook for 4-5 minutes. Transfer into a bowl.
- Heat remaining olive oil in same non-stick pan, place marinated cottage cheese pieces and shallow-fry, turning sides, till light golden on both sides. Transfer onto a plate.
- To make sauce, add butter to the same pan and let it melt. Add refined flour and sauté till light brown.
- Add vegetable stock, Worcestershire sauce, crushed black pepper and salt, mix well, and cook for 2-3 minutes or till it thickens.
- Make a bed of vegetables on a serving plate, place the cottage cheese steaks over them, pour the sauce over the steaks and serve hot.
