INTERNATIONAL DISH!!
GRILLED COTTAGE CHEESE ON POTATO CAKE
GRILLED COTTAGE CHEESE
Cottage cheese 250gms
MARINATION
Olive oil 30ml
Chopped garlic ½ tspn
Crushed pepper corns ½
Paprika ¼tspn
Mustard powder 1/8tspn
Salt to taste
Dill leaves ¼tspn
Lime juice 1tbspn
Dry white wine 20ml
SALSA
Dices of mushrooms 10gms
Dices of bell pepper 10gms
Dice of deseeded tomatoes 10gms
Olive oil 10ml
Chopped parsley 1/8tspn
Stuffed olive halved 4nos
Virgin olive oil 5ml
Lime juice 1 tbspn
Castor sugar ¼tspn
Salt to taste
PREPARATION:
Prepare the marinade. Cut the cottage cheese into rectangles 1½inch × 2inch. Apply the marinade & keep in refrigerator for 4 to 5 hours. Prepare salsa & keep aside. Heat grill bars & brown the cottage cheese on both sides until colored.
FOR PLATING THE DISH:
Spread boiled vegetables on the base followed by potato cake & finally topped with the cottage cheese. Arrange the prepared salsa around.
HOT POTATO CAKES
Mashed potatoes 120gms
Egg yolks 1nos
Butter 20gms
Finely chopped onions 20gms
Chopped parsley ¼tspn
Grated nutmeg a pinch
Salt & pepper to taste
Chopped mushrooms 1tspn
Milk 10ml
Flour for dusting
PREPARATION:
Prepare mashed potatoes. Pass through a fine sieve. Keep aside. Melt 10gms butter, saute onions, mushrooms. When dry, add to the mashed potatoes. Combine all the ingredients except flour & butter. Divide the mixture into 2 parts.
Shape into round patties. Dust in flour. Refrigerate for 30minutes.
Melt butter in a non-stick pan. Dust the potato patties with flour, shaking off excess flour. Shallow fry on both sides until nicely browned. Serve hot with main dish.
