Name: Chanar Dalna ( Bengali Style cottage cheese kofta curry) recipe by Tanuja acharya at BetterButter
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1. Chana / cottage cheese -100gm; 2. Potato -( 1 boiled ); 3. Potato -1 diced cut; 4. Tomato -1/2 chopped; 5. Ginger paste -1 tbsp; 6. Turmeric -1 teaspoon; 7. Cumin powder -1 tbsp; 8.Cumin seeds -1 tbsp; 9. Kashmiri Chilli powder -1 tbsp; 10. Garam masala -1 tbsp; 11. Bay leaf-1; 12.salt and sugar to taste; 13. Ghee -1 tbsp; 14. Refine oil as required; 15. Maida -2 tbsp; 16.water as required; 17.lemon-1

ABOUT Chanar Dalna ( Bengali Style cottage cheese kofta curry) RECIPE

Chanar Dalna is an old age Bengali traditional delicacy which is almost on the way to obsolete . It’s is one of the lost recipe that people used to considers as a common vegetarian dish for all time . I got this recipe from my ma of course , the soft balls of cottage cheese prepared with ginger and cumin powder and very light in texture reminds me of my mom

Ingredients Serving: 4

1. Chana / cottage cheese -100gm
2. Potato -( 1 boiled )
3. Potato -1 diced cut
4. Tomato -1/2 chopped
5. Ginger paste -1 tbsp
6. Turmeric -1 teaspoon
7. Cumin powder -1 tbsp
8.Cumin seeds -1 tbsp
9. Kashmiri Chilli powder -1 tbsp
10. Garam masala -1 tbsp
11. Bay leaf-1
12.salt and sugar to taste
13. Ghee -1 tbsp
14. Refine oil as required
15. Maida -2 tbsp
16.water as required
17.lemon-1

Instructions

Method for the koftas * You can make chana from 1 ltr of milk
* Boil the milk in a high flame when it is boiling put 2-3 tbsp of lemon juice.
* Stir the milk for sometime , when the chana get separated from the whey off the flame .
* Put the whey in a soft cloth and hung the chana for some time till all the water drained out.
* In a bowl put the chena , boiled potato maida and kneed well. ( maida helps for binding the koftas)
* Add little cumin powder , little chilli powder , salt and sugar and kneed well and gives a shape like a ball . * When all the koftas are really keep it aside .
For the Curry or Dalna * Heat oil in a deep fried pan .
* Put the koftas and fry till golden brown and keep aside .
* In remaining oil put sugar (it helps the curry to give a beautiful color), cumin seeds, bay leaf , garam masala and sauté .
* Put the diced potato and fry till becomes translucent. * Add the chopped tomatoes ,ginger paste and sauté with the potatoes
* In a small bowl put cumin powder , turmeric, chilli powder and water and mixed it .
* Put the mixture into the pan and sauté well. * Add salt and sagar as per taste .
* Put some water and cover the lid to boil the potatoes. * After some time when the potatoes are boiled and the gravy releases the oil put some more water to increase the density of the gravy . Then put the chanar koftas into it and sauté for some time.
* Add ghee and sprinkle some garam masala over it * Off the flame and set it for some time . * Chanar dalna is ready to serve .

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