Vegetable and Cottage Cheese Medley

Sharing a recipe that I made for Ri and one she seemed to like. An easy to make combination of protein-rich cottage cheese/panner with tangy tomato, flavorful onion and healthy brocolli florets among other vegetables.

Ri had this for dinner and it was a meal by itself. For older children, serve with bread or rice.

 Ingredients

Paneer or Cottage Cheese – a small piece
Tomatoes - 2
Broccoli – 2-3 florets
Carrot – a small piece
Potato – a small piece

Chopped onion – 1/2 cup

Butter – 1/2 tsp.

Salt and Spice to taste

 
Method

Boil the tomatoes, potato, carrot and brocolli florets. De-skin the tomato and potato and set aside. In a skillet, saute the chopped onions in some butter. In a food processor, grind, chopped onions and the other boiled vegetables till it becomes a chunky paste. In the same skillet, let the chunky paste simmer for 4-5 minutes. Add to this the crumbled paneer or cottage cheese. Add salt and required Indian spice to taste.

Recommended Indian Spices: 1/2 tsp Garam Masala or 1/2 tsp Sāmbhar Masala or 1/2 Tsp Dhana Jeera powder. Select spice and quantity based on your child’s taste. The cup shown in above picture, has only 1 serving but the goodness of 2 whole ripe tomatoes. I would recommend cooking the vegetable instead of store-bought tomato sauce or paste.



Dinner is Ready!