Cottage Cheese (paneer) Chocolate Bar

Usually the chocolate - nuts or chocolate - dry fruit combo’s are quite popular. But, I wanted to try chocolate, nuts and cheese combination. I tried to eat different kind of cheese cubes along with chocolate and found our paneer is the perfect combination. 

After a couple of tries, I could make a perfect choco cheese nut combo and I’m glad to share. Trust me; Cottage Cheese (paneer) Chocolate Bar won’t disappoint you.  It can be served as a dessert or snack. 

Ingredient – 150 gms of dark chocolate (70 % coco) melted      ;      1 cup of crumbed Indian cottage cheese (paneer)    ;      2 tbsp of sugar      ;     1 tbsp of butter ;     ¼ cup of chopped nuts (walnut, almond & cashew)

Place the fry pan on a medium flame and add cottage cheese, butter, sugar stir it till cheese become yellowish then add nuts fry till cottage cheese become caramelized. Turn off the flame and allow it to cool.

Melt chocolate by double boiler or in microwave oven then pour chocolate in rectangular pan, which is linen it with parchment paper. Then sprinkle evenly the caramelized cottage cheese and nut mixture. Transfer the pan into refrigerator to set.

Dates Choco Bar

Scorching summer! Morning temperature itself is about 40°C. Ice creams are the most preferred choice of dessert in the summer. It’s the only way to beat the heat. This rich creamy Dates Choco bar will not disappoint your taste buds.

Ingredient’s   :   10 to 12 Dates       ;        2 cup of heavy cream        ;         150 gms of chocolate (60 % coco)      ;       1 tbsp of coconut oil

Procedure : Remove the seeds from dates and soak it in the water for 2 hours and then grind the dates  in to fine paste. On the thick bottom bowl, heat the heavy cream. Add the dates paste into the cream and stir well. Once, the cream date’s mixture started boiling remove from the heat and allows it to cool.  

Once the mixture it cooled to room temperature, pour it in an ice cream molds and keep it in the freezer for 5 to 6 hours.

Melt the chocolate in double boiler or in microwave then add coconut oil and mix well and then pour it in the wide mouthed mason jar. So that, it will be easy to dip the ice cream Popsicle into the melted chocolate. 

Once, the melted chocolate cooled just above to room temperature, Un-mold the ice cream Popsicle from the mold and dips it in the melted chocolate in one fast motion. Lay the Popsicle on parchment paper. The chocolate will harden almost immediately. Transfer the choco bars into freeze for an hour.