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.

No Bake Avocado – Cottage Cheese Cake

 

Avocado Cottage Cheese Cake is the second one on the no bake series. The first one was No Bake Tofu-Cheese Cake.

Like the previous, here the Avocado pulp and cottage cheese mixture in placed on the soft oats cookies base and chilled and served as dessert.  

 Ingredients :  150 gms of cottage cheese     ;       ¾ cup of Cream (Split into 1/2 cup + 1/4 cup)        ;         1 ¼ tsp gelatin (dissolved in the water)     ;        3 tbsp Avocado (mashed with and 1 tbsp of lemon juice to prevent color change)     ;     1 tbsp of water         ;        3 tbsp of sugar    ;          1/2 cup oats biscuit       ;  40 gms butter melted   ;  zest of lemon (option).

Crush the oats cookies in a food processor until finely ground. Add melted butter and process until moist crumbs form. Transfer the mixture into bottom of individual pan or cheese cake mold (about 1/4^th) and press firmly. Transfer the pan into freezer for 10 – 15 minutes to set.

Boil ¼ cup cream in a small sauce pan and add dissolved gelatin into it and stir well. And allow it to cool.

In a food processor, combine avocado, cottage cheese, sugar, 1/2cup cream, zest, and 1 tbsp water until to form a homogeneous mixture and add the gelatin and process further to form creamy and smooth in texture.

Scope the mixture into the prepared cheese cake pan (on top of crumbled oats cookies) and smooth the top. Chill in the freezer for 1 hour and serve directly from the freezer. (Even you can sprinkle a pinch of lemon or orange zest on top to enhance)