Fruity Grilled Cottage Cheese Salad

We had paneer (cottage cheese) in the fridge and somehow wanted to use it in the dinner. Cottage cheese has high content of casein protein (a longer-lasting protein) while being relatively low in fat. Usually first thing which pops into mind when we think about Paneer is gravy’s, paratha, tikka, appetizer and all, but we wanted to eat something healthy. As we had this beautiful produce (romaine lettuce, strawberries, oranges :-)) in the fridge that we got for coming week, we thought why not make a delicious healthy and easy salad. Ingredients of this salad are so special that they sing for themselves.

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 5 mins

Total time: 20 mins

Recipe type: Salad

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Ingredients

• 200gm cottage cheese
• 4 table spoon hung curd/plain yogurt
• Garlic salt/plain Salt
• coriander leaves/cilantro
• 1 head romaine lettuce, torn into bite-size pieces
• Spring Mix or Spinach same quantity as lettuce
• 6 strawberries
• 2 small oranges/mandarins
• 1 Large Carrot shredded
• 4-5 cherry tomatoes
• Resins
• Walnuts

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For Grilled Paneer:

1. Take 2 table spoons of thick yogurt in a bowl and add a little garlic salt and mix well.
2. Cut Paneer into 2 cm size cubes and marinate paneer cubes with the yogurt mixture. You can skip marinating Paneer In that case directly grill them and season with garlic salt.
3. Keep marinated Paneer in the fridge for 15 min. In the meantime start prepping for salad.
4. In a non-stick pan take some oil. Keep it on medium heat and add marinated Paneer cubes.
5. Grill till Paneer is golden brown on both sides.
6. Add fresh chopped coriander and mix well. Transfer grilled Paneer to a bowl.

For Salad:

1. Cut cherry tomatoes and orange segments into half and slice strawberries.

2. Now let’s make simple salad dressing. In a small bowl take two tablespoon full thick yogurt. Add crushed black pepper and some dried mixed herbs and garlic salt. Mix well and keep aside.
3. Now in a large mixing bowl take cut lettuce, Spring mix/Spinach and shredded carrot. Add salad dressing and mix delicately with your hands.
4. Add Oranges, tomatoes, walnuts, strawberries and resins on top.
5. Finally add grilled paneer on tom.